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Recreation: losing focus...

Teddy — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:14:24 +0000

Calvin & Hobbes - All images excerpted from Revenge of the Baby-Sat.

The secret of Kells: a tale like the old time

Teddy — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:13:40 +0000

The Secret of Kells is a 2009 european animated feature film, an adventure story of the boy behind the famed Book of Kells.

I am very impressed by the extraordinary work that has been spent in this movie: the graphic style of animation is amazing and every frame of illustration are master pieces, the quality of the soundtrack is made by one of my favorite artist, Bruno Coulais (Coraline) and narrative structure remind me the typical emotions of the most beautiful fairy tales.

Make better technologies

Teddy — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:21:52 +0000

Nest is a simple thermostat designed by the fathers of the iPod: Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. Nest is a great product, focused on a simple and funtional design and an amazing User Interface designed by Mike Matas (another ex-Apple designer). Created with a similar design like the iPod click wheel, Nest it's easy to setup and it can learn the settings for all hours of the day, in every room and for all family member.

The cake is a lie

Teddy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:00:36 +0000

I think games are very important: board, sport, role, puzzle games... All of them. Other than relax and have fun play with it, they can teach you and help to keep in training you creativity and imagination. The eclectic italian designer Bruno Munari use to say that games is a serious business. For me, real games and video games are part of my life and like any good product design, they fascinate me and I use to analyze and study the mechanic, the interface and the ideas behind it.

Thank you Steve

Teddy — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:45:26 +0000

What to say...
I was in a meeting at Google, and hearing Steve Jobs passed away was very shocked. I stopped working and went home.

I've been so lucky to be part of this historical age. My generation grew up with an already mature Macintosh and iOS that set the bases for modern design an inspired millions of people. We saw the rise of an almost dead company to its most immense success.

He influenced my life so much. Steve Jobs, creator of Apple, Next and Pixar, changed my life.

Riding the wave of the moment...

Teddy — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:11:35 +0000

There are a lot of things that I have done which I'm glad to be part of.
I've worked for one of the best company ever, met great people, improved my knowledge and mostly important made good friends.

Squarespace is one of the best experience I've ever had: it changed my life and how I work.
I grew up so fast in these couple of years and I never expected to reach so much in such a short time.
I'm sure Squarespace will make the difference in the Web world and it will change everything. I always dreamed and try to design a product like that: to make a real improvement in the daily web experience and I'm sure it will reach that goal.

I always thought designers should jump between multiple experiences to improve themselves, it's part of the game, it's how you grow up as a person and professionist. This apply to every job of course.

Now I'm starting a new chapter of my life: I'm going to work for Google in Mountain View as a visual designer for Android!

Squarespace iPad app UI

Teddy — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:51:46 +0000

Designing the Squarespace iPad app has been a very rewarding experience. It's not just about adding features and graphics assets, but it's also a balance between space and visual elements which do not create confusion and even if this could sound wired, more than ever, you find yourself having to remove instead of add.

Consistency in UI Design on Squarespace

Teddy — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:20:00 +0000

I had the pleasure to participate at the FOWD in New York City not only as a spectator but also as a speaker in a small part of the first day dedicated to the sponsors.
Thanks to Mark, our Engagement Leader at Squarespace, who has actually exposed my slides, we have discussed about consistency in UI design on our platform.

Macedonia #16

Teddy — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:25:00 +0000

Nothing is better than enjoying a good macedonia (fruit salad) at the end of a meal! The images are taken directly from my vi.sualize.us therefore protected by copyright and with the direct link to the source. Filled!

Cibachroming with the iPhone

Teddy — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:31:00 +0000

Lately I'm using more often my new iphone 4 to captured images and video, and I became completely addicted to two great apps: Hipstamatic and crossprocess. Both very good apps to take pictures with the iphone that provide a unique and at least different option to the not pro quality of the device.