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A screenshot of the Fast Forward Labs client panel. With a list of our reports and prototypes.

Inspiration

An image from William Chyr's game Manifold Garden. Looks like cyberspace, lots of outlines of complicated boxy shapes, shaded with relatively solid gradients.

From: http://williamchyr.com/portfolio/summer-days-in-chroma-city/


A screenshot of the Fast Forward Labs homepage in progress. Section blocks on prototyping, reporting, and advising are arrange in a circle.

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A poster for James Brown and the Soul Searches. A three color print with the text all in black and the background with splashes of pink and yellow. Despite the color limitations a wide range of effects is created.

From: http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/02/remembering-underground-washington-dc

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Cover to JG Ballard's Highrise. A collage of sky and building photos where part of the building is cut out.

From: https://twitter.com/Oniropolis/status/718821235564625920

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Screenshot of the homepage of the Pacific Standard. Nice clean layout with headings with minimal borders.

From: https://psmag.com/

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A screenshot of the Shady Characters blog. Lots of nicely considered -- and big -- typography.

From: http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/

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The cover for Gunfighter Ballads by Marty Robbins. A red background with a somewhat crude cut-out of a cowboy drawing his gun. The text is to the right of the man, set big and raw.


A screenshot from Adobe Illustrator of business cards I am working on for Fast Forward Labs.

Inspiration

Phototexture video game tiling experiments by Loren Schmidt. A background of textures, some look like graves.

From: https://twitter.com/LorenSchmidt/status/717788891261116416


A shot of the extension page for Brief. Our Fast Forward Labs summarization prototype.

Inspiration

A screenshot of 99u, a grid feed with nice typography.

From: https://www.typewolf.com/site-of-the-day/99u

Inspiration

A show poster by Braulio Amado.

From: https://twitter.com/BraulioAmado/status/717497465839202304

Inspiration

Black monochrome tennis shoes, with laces that go straight across on top and zip opposite directions on opposite sides in the back.

From: http://epauletnewyork.com/collections/footwear/products/tennis-trainer-monochrome-black

Inspiration

An image from the comic book East of West, where a prophet is riding on a giant gerbil, the image has electronic glitchiness that suggests it is being through a screen or headset.

From: https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/east-of-west-vol.-4-who-wants-war

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This.cm links page, designed by Ben Pieratt. The images for the links are tiled out to the length of the title text.

From: http://pieratt.com/

Inspiration

A slide from Jessie Kriss's talk on Science Fiction and product design that reads: "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jame."

From: https://medium.com/hackerpreneur-magazine/science-fiction-and-design-866178c1739e#.j5g0e25vv


Screenshot of the FF04 report. Focused on a section on recurrent neural networks, with a diagram illustration.


An image of Brief, our summarization prototype, being resized from desktop to mobile. Changing layout responsively as it goes.


Screen shot of our article summarization app, Brief, in mobile view. A list of highlights from an article is displayed.