Hoping For Stability
After some continuing provider-related problems The FontFeed gets back on track and on with the show.
godoylab: service areas for ruta peregrino route
large water pavillion, part of ruta peregrino pilgrim route by godoylab image courtesy godoylab design firm godoylab has created service areas for the ruta peregrino pilgrim route in jalisco, mexico. the issues they prioritized were: water, waste, shade, restrooms and wayfinding. due to the length of the route, the varying climates from one point to the next and the variations within the terrain they proposed to design a series of independent elements that may be modified and adapted to different contexts and needs [...]
Kindle Content Design
"Writing for Kindle is like writing for print, the Web, and mobile devices combined; optimal usability means optimizing content for each platform's special characteristics." - (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)
Casino Burgers and Irrational Behavior
I just got back from a nice lunch with Lou Rosenfeld and Kevin Cheng, made up of great hamburgers from Casino and some interesting conversation about publishing. All of us have a pretty solid footing in this world: I published my book myself, two years ago; Kevin started the now neglected ok-cancel, and is working with Lou on a book on comics; and Lou is trying to change the way the book industry works, specifically for practicing designers. I view publishing [...]
An Animated Visualization Matrix without Flash or Silverlight
Building a Digital Concept Car [involutionstudios.com] is yet another example of an interactive, but very clean, information graphics design. According to a recent abstract of a talk by the visualization author, the matrix is based on the idea behind the "Digital Concept Car", a prototype that is fully functional save being hooked up into the engine. Such concept cars allow design and engineering teams the means to make critical product decisions that no other process can replace. The presented matrix [...]
Coming and Going: State and Regional U.S. Migration Flows
"Who Moves? Who Stays Put? Where's Home?" [pewsocialtrends.org] is a set of geographical data visualizations that display patterns of domestic migration, that is movement of people among the nation's regions and states. They show gains and losses only from people who move from one state to another. The maps use estimates from the American Community Survey for 2005-2007, and from the American census from the 1980, 1990 and 2000 census. These maps seem unique in their neat design and minimal [...]
LOTTO TURM: Stuttgart’s Shipping Container Skyscraper
Inhabitat |
9 hours ago
In the center of Stuttgart, Germany, lies an odd roundabout called Oesterreichischer Platz. Speeding traffic circles around it, and for the last 40 years no one has found much use for it, except as a parking lot. Now German designer Lars Behrendt has conceived of an incredible tower for the unused site that is comprised of 55 shipping containers stacked up like blocks. The Lotto Turm would function as a mixed-use development with a sphere at the top, which would [...]
Porcelain by David Crla
Dirty Mouse |
10 hours ago
David Crla sent me these excellent photos of a porcelain prototype he developed. They don’t half look smart!
Sweaty Eskimo
Dirty Mouse |
10 hours ago
Tahgasa has informed us that new items are for sale at the nattily-named Sweaty Eskimo online shop
A post to make sure my blog gets banned in China
Yesterday I went to see my friend Tom in San Francisco. Pam, Addie, Tom, his wife Rosemarie and me decided to explore the Chinatown area in San Francisco. We had a great time. I even took some nice pictures. But... the pictures and the fact that we had a good time aren't what this post is about. It's about the little newspaper a friendly old lady gave to Pam. Both me and Pam usually ignore people who try to shove all [...]
A wintery weekend
The Daily Max |
11 hours ago
Did a little shopping this weekend and a little eating by the market - very windy day for it. We woke up this morning to some serious snow fall with very large snowflakes and it almost looked like it was going to stay. Then it started to rain, and then came huge gusts of winds. Sigh. Oh Seattle.Top two photos are from our lunch at the farmer's market, and bottom two are from Anthropologie. They used rolled up pages from a [...]
Sites Without Menus: Do You Really Need a Main Nav?
Is Navigation Useful? Jakob Nielsen posed that question in an Alertbox article from 2000. He came to the conclusion that “users look straight at the content and ignore the navigation areas.” In essence, navigation is not as important as most designers make it out to be. That was a major paradigm shift for me. I always thought that the main navigation would be one of the most important elements of a website. I couldn’t believe it, so I set off to [...]
Links for 2009-03-15 [del.icio.us]
Prada Transformer Greener jet engines | Shifting gears [The Economist] "The aviation industry has set itself a tough target: a 50% reduction in fuel consumption by 2020, to cut CO2 emissions in half. Building more aerodynamic aircraft and operating them more efficiently (by reducing air-traffic-control delays, for instance) could produce about two-thirds of those savings. But the rest will have to come from better engines. Research in areas such as new materials and improved blade design will provide incremental improvements [...]
Designing Firefox 3.2
In January 2000, T-Online asked us what we'd do if we could design a browser from scratch. Our answer was "Tabs". Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, asked me what I think a new tab should look like. The answer after skyping for hours and ...
Links for 2009-03-15 [del.icio.us]
Nick Sweeney · tearing up the ’script "manuscript culture had itself gone through significant changes in the century before Gutenberg: private copy-shops in large cities served a bourgeois clientele whose interests lay outside monastic and academic remits. With apologies for the dodgy teleology, literary production was ripe for print." BBC NEWS | Bruce Sterling - Prophet and loss "he is worried that his novel-writing days may soon be at an end. "I am not sure I am going to be [...]
Yesterday
The Last 51 Years of Art History Represented by 51 Seconds of Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode
Eyebeam reBlog |
Mar 15, 2009 11:32PM
a disturbingly accurate art history lesson from jmb courtesy of Battlestar Galactica................take note :) Originally posted by cory_arcangel from Delicious/cory_arcangel, ReBlogged by xtine on Mar 16, 2009 at 02:14 AM
Exhibiton 26; Matt Mullican; Computer Project
Eyebeam reBlog |
Mar 15, 2009 11:32PM
i wish this was what my shows look like.......(1990!!) Originally posted by cory_arcangel from Delicious/cory_arcangel, ReBlogged by xtine on Mar 16, 2009 at 02:14 AM
Dan Ariely offers 3 irrational lessons from the Bernie Madoff scandal
Eyebeam reBlog |
Mar 15, 2009 11:32PM
Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, presented a jaw-dropping talk on cheating and dishonesty at TED2009. We're posting Ariely's TEDTalk next Tuesday, and we asked him for his thoughts on the Bernie Madoff scandal unfolding now in New York: Originally posted by from TED Blog, ReBlogged by xtine on Mar 16, 2009 at 02:17 AM
ChittahChattah Quickies
The “Raiders” Story Conference - Sure, there's a 125 page document on the interwebs now that transcribes the meetings that Spielberg, Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan had to plan out Raiders of the Lost Ark, but even better is this post chock-full of analysis (with examples) of that document, finding principles of storytelling, screenwriting, and collaboration. "7) No idea is a bad idea when you’re brainstorming. These guys were all over the place with ideas and there’s nothing wrong with that. [...]
Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg
Confusion, amusement, boredom, and curiosity. You've seen them in the mirror, but you haven't seen them like this. In her series Monkey Portraits, Jill Greenberg captures emotional and unmistakably human expressions on the faces of our simian cousins. With eighty-eight unique portraits in the series, It's no wonder why Jill was just announced as a speaker at Behance's 99% Conference – a day of presentations on how to make great ideas part of the 1% that are seen through to the [...]
Talking Shuffle
For scale... check out the size of that shuffle next to all the randomness under my monitors... its about the height of that veuve grand dame cork... So as you can see, i gave in and got one of the tiny gum stick looking new buttonless ipod shuffles. And it's so tiny, and adorably simple, and comes with mini apple stickers! So take a peek at the unboxing and the cute instructional graphics too on the next page... p.s. Yes, [...]
W3-Markup: Making My Life Easier
I have developed, designed, and had sites developed and designed by various people and companies, but there is just something special about knowing who to trust online when it comes to getting work done on time, and for me, W3-Markup continues to be, one of those companies. Some of the simple things that make their PSD to HTML service a breeze is the fact that they have live chat available. There is nothing worse than filling out a form, and realizing [...]
The Public School
The Public School. “The Public School is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up. The Public School is not accredited, [...]
