Aug 22, 2017

Nadia's Digest - Issue #4

By Nadia Piet • Issue #4 • View online

Hey you! In ISSUE #4, I’d like to share with you:

9 beautiful meditative spaces by visual artists that will have you breathing real serene 📿🔮
Netflix experienced a 10% drop during the solar eclipse meaning people still rather prefer celestial beauty over screens, yay 🌙👁️
As different interfaces are emerging, these 7 creative projects illustrate the possibilities of future sound interfaces 🎧✨
In the spirit of ‘fuck-up nights’, this article features the failures and lessons from some of the biggest designers in the game 🎨🎒
Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens is among my new favorite books and highly recommended to anyone eager to better understand the world around them 📖🌍

Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III. © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

9 beautiful spaces to convey the state of meditation📿

I’ve been enjoying some quality off-time this summer and investing some of it in meditation and other presence practices. Here, 9 visual artists create a beautiful meditative space to translate the mental state experienced in meditation to an external and immersive environment. Besides the amazing aesthetics and dreamy-mildly-surreal vibes, I hope they may inspire a flash of serenity and invite you to be with your calm too. Which space is your favorite?

From Kusama to Turrell, 9 Artists Who Made Perfect Spaces for Meditation

From a Yayoi Kusama “Obliteration” room to a James Turrell “Perceptual Cell,” these impressive artworks are also inviting spaces for deep meditation.

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Solar eclipse > Netflix 🌙👁️

Netflix felt the sting of the celestial event when its streaming dropped 10% around the time of the eclipse. Call me a hippie but I was happy to read that people preferred to watch the solar eclipse over their screens. Moon is winning yasss! 🌑

After the eclipse, Netflix concedes defeat against the moon

Yesterday, people around the country stepped outside to watch the moon temporarily blot out the sun in an ode to the greatest Mitsubishi model ever. The rare solar eclipse was practically a national holiday, celebrated from coast to coast by people from all walks of life. Everyone loved it, even brands. Well, maybe not Netflix.

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7 projects on the possibilities of sound interfaces 🎧✨

As the familiar touch interfaces are evolving into gesture, brain and other types of interfaces, one we less often speak or read of are sound interfaces. This article on Co.Design collected 7 cool experiments to illustrate the creative possibilities of sound UI.

7 Sound Experiments That Hint At The Future Of Interfaces

Hear that? It’s avant-garde UI. If you want to understand the future of interfaces, use your ears. Sound design has become a wildly experimental area in recent years, full of devices that ask us to reconsider how we interact with technology.

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Lessons from the biggest designers in the game 🎨🎒

In the spirit of “We must learn from others’ mistakes, for we will not live long enough to make them all ourselves” and the uprise of “fuck-up nights”, I’d like to share the following article which features gems on the failures + lessons from some of the biggest designers in the game.

My First Big Screw-Up: Lessons From 8 Top Designers

It happens to the best of us—even the likes of Susan Kare, Sagi Haviv, and Tobias Frere-Jones.

www.fastcodesign.com • Share

Recommended read: Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens 📖🌍

I finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens last week and can tell you this is one of my new favorite books of all-time, cross-genre. Maybe it was my former lack of general knowledge in world history but this book made me see everything in a completely new light and has profoundly impacted my worldview. It fuses educational, inspiring, insightful, critical and funny elements as it chronicles the biological, political and cultural evolution of humankind. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to better understand the world around them and the fundaments of modern society.

Amazon.com: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (9780062316097): Yuval Noah Harari: Books

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Enjoy the above and I’d love to hear your thoughts on this issue, the topics and the newsletter so far. Thank you for being here and see you again in September!

With love
from back home in Amsterdam,

Nadia

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One more of the beautiful meditative spaces from the 1st link to close off with.

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A regular curation with favorite links + things from the web plus updates on what I've been keeping busy with and thinking about. Mostly design, tech, AI, data, culture, and creativity. Driven by curiosity, selected with love, published monthly.

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