Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
Sesame Street: You’ve Never Seen Bert & Ernie Like This!
Sesame Street was such a huge part of my life when I was in elementary school. It's hard to believe that show started in 1969, and it's still broadcasting today. In 2009, on the show's 40th anniversary, it was the number 15th highest rated children's show in the States.
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Love Your Street: Recycled Paper Puts Love On A Wall
Far too many times, no matter where I go, I see streets so lifeless and out of sync with today's highly spiritual and technological climate. It's like they are doomed to rust away while we spend time walking the virtual streets of Second Life, World of Warcraft or even some new Facebook game. The ...
Frostie: Future Design Puts Sound To Your Air Guitar
Working with music, I often come across a lot of people who think they are the next big thing. Sometimes they are better than others, but there is always a reason why artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna and Celine Dion are world renowned, and it hasn't got much to do with luck. The world is full ...
Design Inspiration: The Lego Headquarters In Russia
As you probably know, Richard, Misty and I all live in different countries. Even though we work well together through emails, Skype and direct messages on Twitter, we've often talked about what it would be like to have a Bit Rebels office in a location where we could all work in the same space.
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How To: Leave A Time Capsule For Future Generations
Wouldn't it be cool to leave a time capsule in your house when you move? Someday someone would find it and get a glimpse into that moment in time when you left it for them. It's kinda like finding a message in a bottle, only better. Have you ever thought about leaving a note like this for someone ...
The Increasing Importance Of Optimizing Your Blog’s Images
Bandwidth consumption is a common problem for large websites attracting a large number of visitors. Whenever you experience a site that used to be fast, and now it's slow, it's most probably due to the bandwidth being used to its limits. Whenever you get an error that says the browser can't fetch ...
Geek Design: Space Invader Papercraft Business Card
Is there anything that can't be created with a piece of paper? I'm starting to think not. We've written about so much incredible papercraft on Bit Rebels that it now has its own category at the top of this blog. I used to just look at a piece of paper as just that, a piece of paper. But now, all ...
Unbelievable Portraits Made From Chewed Gum & Spit
Apparently this guy has been doing this for years, but I just found out about it today, and it's blowing my mind. Do you see the "paintings" below? No paint was used to make them. They were created from chewed gum and spit only. Nuts!
Jason Kronenwald, an artist from Toronto, has a whole team ...
Food Fashion: Dresses Created From Bananas & Mushrooms
Have you noticed a trend lately that combines food and fashion? A while back I wrote an article about a couple of designers who asked five models what they were craving at that moment. Whatever they said, the designers created clothes for them to wear out of that food. It was really interesting t ...
Photography: Get To Know Your Body In A New Way
As we've said before, there are many worlds within our world that surround us everyday. We can't see the detail with our human eyes, but with the magic of microscopic photography, we can get a glimpse of it. We've featured a lot of this photography on Bit Rebels, and those articles always seem to ...
The Toilet For Your Car: Stuck In Traffic? Gotta Go?
If you live in a big city like me, then you've been there a million times. You start driving somewhere that should take fifteen minutes, but then you hit the all too familiar sea of brake lights, only to find you are stop and go for the next hour or two while you sit in an annoying traffic jam.
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Adopt A Bot: Junk Bots Get A New Chance To Shine
The time of the personal robots is coming, we all know that. But for now, they are not intelligent enough to do the things we really want them to do. They are not very cost effective either. However, with technology always advancing, there is no doubt that we will all eventually have our own robo ...
Post-It Revolution: Stop Wasting, Start Ripping
Ever since Post-It notes where introduced, there have been plenty of redesigns and ideas for how to actually increase the use and design of the small note papers. It is no surprise why the Post-It notes have been so successful when you think about all the little things you want to remember each day ...
Tutorial: Brilliant 3D Super Mario Magnet Board
It is almost like Super Mario has an imprint in all of our minds cause hardly a day goes by when I don't see something totally new and extraordinary with the Super Mario franchise smack in the middle of it. I mean, there are backpacks, lunch boxes, pillows, shower curtains... you name it, and it is ...
An Upright Piano Turned Into Epic Computer Case Mod
Creative people have always impressed and inspired me to push my own knowledge further. There is a kind of spark that lives in every single person that is creative, and if you are able to tap into it, you can become even more inspired yourself. As you all know, there are several kinds of modding o ...