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DesignUp 🚀 Issue #47 > 7 Design Books, VR-Films, Philographics...
Unlike the last few thematic series—this is an assorted issue: from some excellent book recommendations to VR Film-making, Friendly-tech, 'isms' meet geometry, and more...
The other interestingness I stumbled upon this week: the AR Interdimensional Portal, and that there's actually a twitter handle (and portal) called MixedRealityJobs. An addition to last week's newsletter on Ux & SciFi—Uppercase 'A' Cliches in SciFi.
🔥 Hot off the press: DesignUp Conference's 2017 Website is now live 📢 As is our YouTube channel 📽 with talks and recaps from 2016. Registrations starts in a few weeks (you'll hear about it here, first). Last time the event got sold out in 6 days, this time around we'll have a few batches of tickets (starting from super-early birds) over weeks—to give everyone a bon chance!
+ look back at DesignUp 2016: talks, takeaways and recaps
A delightful deeper dive into the world of off-the-beaten-track books on design process and practice (not everything can be straight jacketed into D'thinking). Some like the Synthesis of Form, brings back memories of a well stocked NID Library! And the best surprise was Out On The Wire. Recommended read (and bookmark)!
Nir Eyal, author of Hooked, on building human-like products—
“For the first time, technology has caught up with African storytelling,” says Jepchumba, a Kenyan digital artist...“the onus is on us now.” African filmmakers are now saying that VR could give them an opportunity to both complement and push the traditional fold of African storytelling and dispel pervasive stereotypes about the continent.
And continuing on the theme of the revenge of philosophy nerds: Philographics, from Studio Carreras, is a series of posters that (attempt to) explain big ideas in simple shapes (and some striking colours)—
Existentialism, one in the series
Until next week,