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The Linear Calendar

adenastudios — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:44:23 +0000

The Linear Calendar totally rethinks how you look at scheduling. It gives you a glance of the entire year and breaks down each month essentially into a timeline instead of a block.

Lines are totally the new blocks.

If you want to buy one for yourself, follow this link over the The Made Shop.

Nightclub Photography (without people and all the lights on)

adenastudios — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:55:28 +0000

German photographer, André Giesemann, has been building up a pretty interesting collection of nightclub photography. But instead of photographing people enjoying themselves, he likes to capture the aftermath.

See full gallery here.

Minimal Package Design

adenastudios — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:41:25 +0000

Sometimes things get a little out of hand with brand and package design. Marketers and business operators want so many things to be front and center, it all ends up getting drowned out by itself. One thing I always remember when it comes to communication is “when everything is important, nothing is important.” Pick one thing you want to stand out and have people remember, and put all of your effort behind that.

Thanks to Antrepo for the images.

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“Fine Then!” Ex-Googlers Redesign Gmail on Their Own…

adenastudios — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:08:43 +0000

People have been trying to re-invent the inbox for a long time now. And who better to attempt it again then some ex-Googlers? Dhanji Prasanna, Cameron Adams, and Jochen Bekmann were some of the guys that helped build Google Wave. Surely as designers it killed them to see what started out as a pretty cool idea for a pro-sumer product, get filtered through Google’s “engineer-based thought process” to create a product made for engineers and not normal human beings.

There are a lot of elements I really like about this. It makes usual tasks like browsing attachments much easier as well as adds a bit of eye-candy. It also brings in more of an app feel instead of making you feel like you are on a website. The only thing of which I am not a fan is that they made replying to emails “too” easy. It’s almost more like a chat. The last thing I need is more email from people who fire back replies off the cuff without thinking. You people know who you are…

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