Gallant DesignWorks

03/14/2015

I'm not sure I fully understand the meaning behind this great sculpture made of resin and recycled computer keys by Babis Cloud, but I certainly enjoy looking at it. The piece is titled Hedonism(y) Trojaner, derived from the giant mythological Trojan horse built by the Greeks that was use

01/18/2013

Birds tweeting! So cool!
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/computers/

Latvian conceptual artist and creative director Voldemars Dudums created this insanely clever bird feeder using an old computer keyboard and some cubes of bacon fat. When the birds would fly down to snack their inadvertent key presses were fed to an api that parsed each little tap into a bonafide tw...

12/29/2012

Fascinating!

designboom takes a look back at hartmut esslinger's designs of the early 80's, overviewing prototypes, concepts and explorations of apple's first computers, laptops and tablets.

10/28/2012

Beautiful!

French firmOréerecently launched a new keyboard made entirely from a single piece of maple or walnut. Every keyboard is made to order and is crafted, polished, oil-finished and assembled by hand in their workshop in southern France. Via their website:

10/10/2012

Following the new logo it announced last month, Ebay showed off a redesigned website and introduced a new app that will let users order and receive items on the same day.

08/23/2012

Amazing!

Look closely... it may be hard to hard to believe but the images below are actually drawings made by Portugal-based attorney, Samuel Silva. Silva, who describes his art as a “hobby," uses standard ballpoint pens for many of his drawings, sometimes working on a piece for over 45 hours.

01/22/2012

A little Photoshop knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Photoshop is an amazing tool that allows designers and photographers to do some incredible things. But not every Photoshopped creation works out exactly as planned. Whether it is poor ex*****on, going too far, or oversight of something important, Photoshop disasters are not uncommon. In this post we...

01/15/2012

What were they thinking?

Yaaaawwwwwwwwn!

01/10/2012

FIRST EVER:Computer manufacturer Symbolics (now obsolete) on 15th March 1985 registered the first ever domain name that was “symbolics.com”.
Enea.se and luth.se were registered in 1983 and 1984 respectively but using old domain system. Symoblics.com was registered using the current domain system.

01/10/2012

FIRST EVER: In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent first email and also made use of @ symbol in email addresses. Same systems were available even before (early 60s) but they were only used it to exchange messages on mainframe computer. The current shape of email emerged in 1970s. It is to be noted that Internet didn’t even exist at that time but its ancestor, ARPANET did.