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Sunday, April 27, 2014

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts from the past week:

LED Lights Are Ruining Laundry Detergent's White-Brightening Trick

gizmodo.com: LED lighting is great. The right bulb gives the same warm incandescent glow you love from a fraction of the energy. But there's a downside: while LEDs make cities look awesome, the most common type of LED lighting dims the ultraviolet trick laundry detergents use to make white clothes look whiter. The future is bright, but it's also kind of dingy.


The 6 Best Tools For Creative Work, According To Science

Fast Company | Business + Innovation: I’d love to have a toolkit that promised me great, creative ideas every time I sat down to work. Obviously that’s not going to happen--creativity doesn’t come from tools.
But luckily there are some tools that can improve our chances of working creatively.


Why You Need to Stop Bragging About How Busy You Are

Fast Company | Business + Innovation: Do you rush through the morning paper, barely skimming the headlines while answering emails and making kids’ lunches? Do you compete with coworkers over how late you stay at the office each night?
When journalist Brigid Schulte found herself immersed in one of the most hectic, time-crunched industries, she, like many of her busy coworkers, was feeling overworked and overwhelmed by the demands of her work and home life.


Set design studio in Japan by Mattch plays with theatrical imagery

www.dezeen.com: This office and workshop for a theatre designer in Osaka was designed by Japanese studio Mattch to look like a glazed box hovering between two solid curtains


Suntory Whiskey’s New Ad Campaign Uses 3D-Sculpted Ice

Geekosystem: There’s a new ad campaign for Suntory Whiskey by Japanese agency TBWA/Hakuhodo that shows the whiskey served over intricate, precision-drilled 3D ice sculptures. It’s beautiful to watch the drill create such a complex shape, and then have that shape drowned in whiskey.



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