Avatar: The Bootleg

More than anything, this is for my friend Marcus:

Objectified

The maker of Helvetica has a new film out — apparently he’s at work on a trilogy. This one is focused on the role of industrial design in our lives: Objectified.

The Man Behind Fictional UIs

Mark Coleran designs UIs (user interfaces) for the movies. You’ve seen his work in the various Bourne movies, in the Lara Craft movie, and in a number of other places.

Coleran's UI for "Tomb Raider"

He has collected the various UIs on a single page on his website, and it’s a great place to go for inspiration both when you are trying to design an interface but also when you are just trying to sketch out the structure of a problem. (Sometimes how you look at data helps you to imagine what your data is.)