Jotted down to remember.
Makes perfect sense to me. Bring on the GPM!
Love the front, but I’m not quite sure about the “Loads of Hope” slogan.
Very clever. I can’t decide on a favorite, but the waterfall and surfer ones are great.
My good friends Nate and Erin decided to quit there jobs and go traveling for a year. They’re currently in New Zealand and every time I get an update in my RSS reader I get a little more jealous. I don’t know how much longer I can keep reading, before I just up and sell all my possessions and join them.
Seriously, the city needs to buy some more snow plows already.
Absolutely gorgeous work. I’d like to see more stuff in this vein, especially in the cereal aisle at the grocery store. The first company who goes ahead and makes there box simple and straight forward is going to have a big advantage. There’s way too much product packaging shouting going on there.
A great video showing how the Eames molded chair. The wooden dowel prototype bit at the beginning is awesome. I’m curious what new methods Herman Miller is using these days to make their new chairs.
Love this. Hopefully it’ll be kept up and added to.
Gorgeous video by Athletics showing the cost of war.
Love this post from Rands In Repose and it couldn’t come at a better time. I’m working on finishing up a lot of little details on a web application and it’s great to remember how important these little things are.
Great article from TIME all about Kuzumaki and how it was able to become completely energy independent. I lived there for about a year so trust them when they say that it’s not replicable on a large scale, Kuzumaki is very rural, but it’s still fantastic. It’s disappointing when I here about falling oil prices and these projects getting shelved. We need to start developing something now so when we do need it, we’ll be ready.
Gorgeous collection of links and reference material from the 1972 Munich Olympics.
An incredibly well converted 512k Mac. Seeing a floppy disk drive on OS X is just, well, weird.
Can’t wait for parts 2 and 3. These are just incredible
“Lovely recycled and 100% unique bags from Germany”
Love this stuff from Joshua Davis. #09 is definitely my favorite.
Love this. Then again, I’ve got a weak spot for black and white old barber shop photos.
Finally.
Love these. I really wish the soda industry would do some limited release retro cans.
Fantastic, sustainable wooden toys. Saved for when I’m going to have to start buying toys for all my friend’s kids.
Intensely beautiful and startling saddening at the same time.
“our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into the CD music business on the eve of the birth of the iPod and iTunes. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into a book-store chain on the eve of the birth of Amazon.com and the Kindle. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into improving typewriters on the eve of the birth of the PC and the Internet.” - Thomas Friedman
A little pricey but sweet. Isn’t everything from Veer a little pricey?
“One amazing part about the trip is that Dad takes a Polaroid picture out of + every +motel room he stays at, there are literally hundreds of these pictures. He takes them with his “95” Polaroid camera, the first model Polaroid put out, and Dad’s first camera he was given as a gift about 60 years ago. The camera still works and he still takes pictures with it to this day.” That man must have stocked UP on film years ago. It’s great to see a video of one of these in action!
“We can create meaningful and sustainable expectations about how, when, or whether we’ll respond to each of the inputs in our world. We can be candid about the level of attention strangers and friends can expect from us. And, when the time is appropriate, we can find the stomach tell the world we’re not even pretending to listen.” I think I’ve found my New Year’s resolution.
Love this. The one of Robert Frost, Kennedy, Pablo Picaso are just incredible. Well, they’re all awesome.
I tried it out and have to agree with just about everything said in this review. It’s fun, but a little gimmicky and the rendering is annoyingly poor.
Just. Keep. Trying. Great inspirational piece from Merlin Mann.
A fantastic new bug tracking tool from my friend Garrett Dimon. The user interface and “flow” of the application are spot on. I’ve been using it for about a month now and am really impressed. I know he’s got lots of future features planned, and while I can’t wait to see what he does moving forward. If you’ve been looking for a simple issue/bug tracking solution with a well designed interface, look no further than Sifter.
Looks awesome. Too bad it’s $45.00. Damn.
I got sucked into this for about an hour tonight. Some truly amazing sequences (Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Soylent Green) and it’s great to see something that usually just book ends a show or film get archived and promoted this way.
Not sure how I missed this but it’s hilarious, informative and a bit sad now that Prop 8 has passed.
It’s already a fantastic resource and it looks like there are plans to add more stuff in the future. I’ve subscribed.
The stapler is my favorite but all of these are great. Straw straw!
Want. Why do you have to be $110 though! That’s just too rich for my blood.
In my opinion it does, and I think Kottke’s points about the care and use of the visual design at the end of his post are spot on. He seems to sit on the fence with how much the visual design impacts the broken windows theory. I agree somewhat, a well moderated and active site owner probably does play a greater roll than the visual design in how much trolling and spam comments you get, but the visual design is still a vital component.
That’s one beautiful printer. I’m curious how big of a footprint it takes up on your desk though.
Mind boggling time-lapse of a man throughout various different parts of his day. The fact that they were able to get it to line up as well as they did is just stunning.
Great collection of “The End.” screens from movies. I love all the typography.
Well argued, well written and a great point. I’ve often been frustrated with any group from the outside armchair quarterbacking another.
“The book collects together all of Ian Fleming’s Bond short stories in a single volume for the first time and includes stories that inspired the Bond film classics From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, The Living Daylights and of course, Quantum of Solace, the latest in the series.” Just in time for Christmas, this looks absolutely gorgeous. I’ve never read any of Ian Fleming’s short stories, but I’ve always wanted to check a few out. This looks like a perfect way to do it in style.
New prequel from J.J. Abrams. I’ve never been much of a Star Trek fan but this one looks pretty damn cool.
“Screen and Web Snapping for Mac OS X Leopard.” Looks like a great solution to something I’ve been hacking together for myself for years.
The “fireside chat” of the 21st century. I love it, and I’m really glad to see the innovation from Obama’s campaign carry over into his presidency. Everyone loves a good horse race, but it’s the governing that brings about the change. I hope things like this keep people’s interest, even just a little, in what can be a pretty arduous process.
Saved for a few projects I’d like to do on this site.
Love. Old. Gyms. I’ve been wanting to do a whole series of photos of old gyms for some time now. I really just need to start doing it.
I think Amy Carter might win for the coolest with Dynamo.
“He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds” Great list.
Hilarious little short film from Pixar that takes place concurrent to the events happening in the film.
An enthralling infographic music video.
Field Notes with custom logos on the back. I’d love to do this for T Incorporated but I’m pretty sure it’s a little cost prohibitive.
The trailer to Pixar’s new movie. I’m a bit underwhelmed, but Pixar hasn’t let me down yet.
An unnamed new typeface-in-progress from Aisle One. It’s awesome to see the initial stages as he works through the different letters. I’m liking the shape of it already.
“Reinterpretation” graphics of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl nuclear explosion epicenters.
Custom. Artisan. Cereal. I can think of few things more ridiculous and posh, but at the same time so awesome. $15 isn’t cheap, but I totally want to try it sometime.
“It’s like my sandwich just became a baconwich.” This sounds both disgusting and delicious at the same time. I’m very conflicted.
Yep, the New York times map was by far the best. I love this collection though!
Intriguing interactive graphic showing how Obama won.
The next President of the United States.
Really interesting article about Hyde Park and how it might relate to Obama’s perspective and thinking. The area is full of big thinkers, unique perspectives, people challenging others views and the culture to act on those thoughts. it sounds like a fascinating place.
I absolutely love this idea.
I really like this idea, and I’m not all that bashful about going up to people. I’d really love to work on taking portraits and this seems like a fantastic way to start. With the grey and the rain settling in here in Seattle, I’m saving this idea for the spring, but it sure looks fun.
Malcolm Gladwell on why you don’t need to be young to have some truly great creative moments in your life.
I’ve been using Instant Domain Search for years, but I like the suggestions this Domainr provides. It’s getting nearly impossible to get a good top level domain these days, hopefully this will help.
Saved so I can remember how to do this again when I setup a new machine.
Absolutely love this collection but when they start getting into the crazy molded heads, they start to lose something for me.
I’ve memorized a lot of the keyboard shortcuts for the ones I use regularly over the years, but this is a great reference for whole bunch more.
Make sure you know where you need to go on November 4th.
Well designed, nicely executed and some great messages about why people in the middle are voting for Obama.
Now just make the Portland one already.
Wonderful time-lapse video tutorial, but it just makes me wish the D90 had a built in intevelometer. Maybe Nikon will come out with a firmware update?
I think these vertical farms are an awesome idea. I can’t remember where I read it but in the back of my head I keep hearing “we need to make our cities more attractive for people to live in so we don’t keep destroying rural areas” and I think this is a great step in that direction.
Looks pretty sweet. I’ll be installing it later today/tonight, but from the demo, I’m impressed. Every once in a while I step back and think about everything that my iPhone can do and I’m amazed. The little device is far and away the best gizmo I’ve ever owned. Period.
“By placing one of the quarterbacks at least seven yards behind the line of scrimmage, and no one under center to receive the snap, the A-11 qualifies as a scrimmage kick formation — the alignments used for punts and extra points. Thus interior linemen are granted an exception from having to wear jersey numbers 50 through 79. (The exception was intended to allow a team’s deep snapper not to have to switch to a lineman’s jersey if he was a back or an end.) Any player wearing jersey numbers 1 through 49 and 80 through 99 is potentially eligible to receive a pass.” It looks crazy, and I want to see it in action, but I think I might be a fan. The bit about it looking like basketball on grass might have won me over.
I love maps, and transmit maps are probably my favorite. And of transit maps, the London Underground is probably in my top 5. I haven’t found the time to watch this yet, but I’m looking forward to watching it when I finally do. From the 5 minutes I did watch, it looks fantastic.
“30 graphic designers present 30 reasons to vote for Barack Obama.” I don’t know why it took me so long to come across this. My favorite so far is probably this one from Milton Glaser. I just love that quote.
“Subliminal messages these fonts are feeding you…” Some damn funny ones in this set if your a type geek.
It’s the first time the newspaper has ever endorsed a Democrat. It’s a damn good endorsement too.
Michael Bierut describes why I love Mad Men perfectly.
A gorgeous collection of typewritter ribbon tins on Flickr. Great design inspiration here.
Gorgeous poster from Hoefler & Frere-Jones for the Obama campaign.
Sobering and well argued, the future for newspapers doesn’t look so bright.
Say what you will about Dave Eggers writing, but his work with his “826” stores is tough to deny as something great. Personally, I’ve always really liked his writing, mainly because his “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” really hit home for me at a tough time in my life. Regardless this new branding work for the pirate shop in San Francisco is fantastic. I’m heading down in a few weeks and I just might have to pick up a few things.
I’m not quite sure what to call these, but I really like ‘em. When I was living in Japan I was barely able to remember any Kanji. The best I could do was to remember all the town names and a few numbers.
Another Big Picture post, another link to it, but it’s of Autumn and it’s my favorite time of year. This set is chalked full a beautiful fall colors, harvest and just crisp shots.
A fantastic look behind the scenes of the design process that went into the new MacBooks.
“Little hand painted people, left in London to fend for themselves.” I terrific project and blog. I just flipped through a few but the ATM and “Rush Hour” were my favorites. He’s got a cool looking book out too.
I think the only bad thing about this place is that it’s in Los Angeles. Absolutely gorgeous.
“It’s the simplest manifestation of what a day planner is all about: time on paper.” I wish Seattle would get a Muji store soon.
Want.
Happy Hangul Day! “Hangul’s characters are featural: their shapes are related to the sounds they symbolize, each representing a different position of the mouth and tongue.” I had no idea Korean was like this, but damn, that’s really cool.
The video, the music, yeah, it’s all just awesome.
Looks like a fantastic letterpress studio. They even do custom printing.
James Duncan Davidson is “dipping his toes in the water” with a new D700 and some absolutely gorgeous lenses. Yeah, I’m a little jealous that’s what he gets to “dip his toes” in with.
I dig the skinny tie.
Letterpress, pixel printing, damn. Impressive doesn’t do that justice. The laser etched moleskines… wow. Cabel wins.
Just get past the painfully bad “Transmoflection” part this video does a great job talking about how the design team came about coming up withe branding for the 2010 games in Vancouver.
I was going to call out one or two images from this set from the Big Picture but there were just too many that I loved. Be sure and check out all of them.
Great series of informative, large, print sized info-graphics depicting things like immigration issues and carbon emissions. Really beautiful stuff.
I’m a little late on this one and bummed I missed it. Would love to get my hands on one of these debate posters. Anyone know where I might be able to buy one? I’ve been a big fan of Hatch Show Print for a few years now and I think it’s phenomenal that their business is booming again.
Absolutely stunning work from the badasses over at Pentagram, Michael Bierut and Joe Marianek. I have to go check this place out when I get out to New York again, which will hopefully be this spring.
Some really nice improvements both functionally and visually for the debug tools for the Web Inspector in Webkit.
Yes, please.
Take just a moment, close everything, remove any distractions and read this. It’s not long. Just do it.
My sister created a blog for her spanish classes. I love it. I also think it’s hilarious she went with Ms. Anne. Sounds so posh!
Yet another great infographic from the NY Times illustrating who voted against the $700 billion financial bailout plan.
I’d have to agree.
Looks like I’m a Chase banker now.
Not these people need it, but people just look great in Polaroids.
Seriously considering moving my money to different bank or even a credit union.
I’m currently using the George Foreman version of something very similar to this, but it lacks any sort of temperature controls. I’m curious if this works any better because I really miss being able to grill.
What I would consider a dream job for any graphic designer living in NYC.
” Baikonur is an entire Kazakh city, rented and administered by Russia. The Cosmodrome was founded in 1955, making it one of the oldest space launch facilites still in operation.” Another truly stunning set of photos form The Big Picture.
A great collection of airport signage photos. I like that Seattle is front and center.
You know, saved for when I win the lottery.
Great advertising for Wario Land Shake It!
“Break’s over.”
I’m hoping this isn’t just a rumor and the fact that they’re trying to patent the concept of the UI screen is lame, but this is a great idea. The way the iPhone handles all of these notifications right now isn’t very good. They just flash up, and then if you unlock the phone and have more than one you’re just dropped to the home screen.
“Long recognized by men as the greatest utensil ever, the spork has fallen on some hard times.” I’m ecstatic to see the spork getting some design love.
A great find from Sean. “Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
Glad to see ALA is shifting to a broader design focus. I’m 100% in favor of this move, good call guys.
Don’t miss the Jimi Hendrix photo or the “Need experience?” gems. Lots of great little things throughout. The Onion is awesome (and Django powered).
“The company touts the toilet tissue as ‘ultra-soft’ and says it plans to market the product to women 45 and older who view their bathroom as a ‘sanctuary for quality time.’” You can’t make this stuff up.
When I look at this I can’t help but think “Orwellian”.
Basically the “safest option is to shade the alternating, individual rows of your table with a single color”. If you can’t do that stick with a horizontal rule for each table row.
“People in Greece spend almost 13 times more money on clothing as they do on electronics. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics and household goods combined. Americans spend a lot of money on everything.” Does anyone know where I could get a feed of just the fantastic interactive graphics the New York Times puts out? I absolutely love this stuff.
Fun set of iPhone Wallpapers of old time photos and illustrations from Shorpy.
“Concept packaging for a set of seed packs which come with a guidebook on how to care for your sprout. You can cutout the plant tag from the back of the packaging.” I love that little “sprout” popping out of the “O”. Great stuff.
Great advice about editing your photos. I’ve been doing this for a long time, but been doing it a lot more lately. I probably take about 35-50 shots a day and post 1 or 2 on average to Flickr. Oh and yes, I consider that a pretty good ratio.
An absolutely fantastic collection of illustrated desktop wallpapers from various scenes of Mad Men. I love ‘em all but I think ‘What’ll it be, daddy?” is my favorite.
The winner of SlideShare’s world’s best presentations contest. Beautiful slides and it makes some great points about the water upcoming water crisis the world is facing, even if it’s a little bleak at the end.
“the light-speed wipeout is a powerful reminder of how quickly bad information can spread via the Internet to a trigger-happy Wall Street that is willing to dump millions in stock before checking the facts.” Whoops.
For my aunt who thought I’d never find a quilt that I liked. That red cone visualization quilt is wicked!
Clever (and free) word based screensaver clock. It’s got a lot of nice customization options like changing the font and color scheme.
Some absolutely gorgeous photos from the Big Picture.
Looks like a great port of my favorite “pop over” javascript technique in my favorite javascript library jQuery. I’m sure I’ll be using this somewhere in the near future. Nice work Steve.
Sonics have left Seattle but at least the name stayed. It’s just too bad about the logo the “Thunder” ended up with. There’s just nothing in this logo that makes it memorable. I really enjoyed the old NFL logos during the throwback uniform games last season, and was sort of hoping the new Sonics, er Thunder, branding would head in that direction. Well, I guess it’s Oklahoma City’s problem now.
A bit awe inspiring seeing how much engineering happens every time I press the shutter on a camera similar to mine.
“HiddenRadio has either no user interface…or…is all user interface.” Radios and clever industrial design, two of my favorite things in one cool product. So. Awesome.
Looks like a great set of iPhone stencils for Omnigraffle.
A huge congratulations to everyone involved! For those curious few out there this site is Django powered, and although I haven’t been actively involved in the community or developing with it for all that long, I have to say it’s easily my favorite way to build websites. The freedom and control it provides to get my designs realized quickly hasn’t been possible with anything else I’ve used. With Django I’ve always felt I’ve been doing things “the right way” and to see it at 1.0 is just one more reason to check it out if you haven’t already.
“This is a pie chart on procrastination.”
The Ice Age and Pangea ones are my favorites.
One outlet, three plugs. Brilliant.
I don’t think I can get more excited for this camera than I already am. I love how a few of the shots are taken right by my place at Gasworks park here in Seattle too. That quality looks phenomenal.
“We’re all hypocrites, and we get what we pay for. The market is astonishingly quick at responding to what consumers do (and incredibly slow at reacting to what we say).” Yep. Well said.
The Seattle Weekly article all about the company China 8 Blue Flavor did work for a while back. One of the founders of the project, Paul Willms, has quite the business history. My favorite though is this gem: “Willms had sent out a letter to thousands of Mennonites in the U.S. and Canada, asking them to invest in a scheme to win back, and redevelop, roughly 500,000 acres of formerly Mennonite land, now within the borders of the Ukraine, that had been seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution of 1917.” We still haven’t been paid.
These guys got to do some amazing advanced field testing of the new camera I want, the recently announced D90. His studio is in one of my co-workers condo complexes so I’m hoping I can work in some sort of introduction.
Freak. Still, the infographics are really revealing depicting some incredible feats in sports. I had no idea the DiMaggio hitting streak was the dominant.
“In its delicately ribbed frame are encapsulated pitchers of lemonade, the drone of bees, the smell of mown grass and the sun-baked mustiness of the garden sheds where shuttlecocks rest along with broken croquet mallets, dog-chewed Frisbees and trapped flies.” Inspirational and an absolutely gorgeously written bit about the shuttlecock.
I absolutely love this interactive graphic depicting the medal counts since the modern games inception in 1896. Big kudos for representing the different regions using color and a rough “map” via large circles. It’s great that you can quickly flip to just a straight numerical order too though.
Finally another Wii title I’m excited about.
“After embarrassing the United States on and off the court in Athens, this so-called Redeem Team lived up to its moniker with vigor. The players guarded as if their meals depended on it, shared the ball as if they were starring in “Hoosiers” and made not even a wisp of trouble off the court.” I’m not wild about the “Redeem Team” nick name but I’m happy to see American basketball representing both the country and themselves well. I’ve been disenchanted with NBA basketball for years. I started to drift back when Blazers championship runs ended and the country referred to them as the “Jail Blazers”. I hope NBA basketball finds a way to turn there image around, but I’m still skeptical. They’ve got a long ways to go before they’ll get me back watching on a regular basis. See quotes like this is a good start though.
The beautiful typeface used by Bryan Veloso in the design of the beautiful Addictionary, The typeface is designed by Dino dos Santos.
Jon Tan does a great job explaining explaining just what a fonts and a typeface are, very beautifully I might add.
“Cymbolism is a new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.” It’s never clear cut, but the associations and some of their visualizations look really useful. I just wish the site encouraged browsing words and searching a bit better. Great idea though.
Incredible panorama of the Olympic Water Cube. Thomas Finchum does a great job describing incredible it is to be up on that platform.
A set of magnets with UI widgets on them that you can use to prototype various apps on either a metal whiteboard or, you know, your fridge. An absolutely fantastic idea.
Man, that Red camera really is incredible. Love the music too.
“Are you sad that Polaroid is getting out of the Polaroid business? Me too. So I made this series of prints to commemorate the evolution of polaroid cameras used by such famous folks as Ansel Adams and my mom.” Saved for when I’m flush with cash at some point in the future.
Eric Karjaluoto from smashLAB does a great job talking about, well a lot of things, but mainly about defining success for yourself. I know I could leave Blue Flavor and probably make more money, but I love my job, and to me, that’s a lot more important than a bigger paycheck. Sure, I’d like more money, I mean, who wouldn’t? But, I’m not willing to trade enjoying my job 90% of the time for a few more dollars. I’m always amazed at people who aren’t willing to push themselves to find out what makes them happy with work and their career. Sure, maybe you don’t have the education or experience to do just what you want to be doing now, but that’s no reason to stop trying. As Eric so nicely put it, “Maybe the problem with success is that we don’t take enough time to define it for ourselves.”
I can now officially stop bitching to Wilson about Everyblock not being in Seattle. Looks great and can’t wait to finally be able to use it.
“A beautiful “infographically” animated movie that illustrates a 1969 interview of John Lennon by a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan.” I can see why it almost won an academy award. I’m just constantly impressed with motion graphics and how much creativity is wrapped up into these short little films.
“Priced at less than $100, these limited edition Rolleiflex lookalikes [called Black Bird Fly] shoot square images on 35mm rather than 120 (medium format) film, making development costs (and cheap scanning at home) less of an issue.” Hopefully I can get my hands on one of these when they finally come out.
“Oh yes, it’s definitely been jumped on.”
“PhotoCalc offers handy calculations for professional or hobbyist photographers working in the studio or in the field. PhotoCalc provides exposure reciprocation, depth of field and hyper-focal distance calculations, and flash exposure calculations.” I’m still not quite “there yet” for this level of calculating but it looks really interesting. I’m saving this for future reference if/when I get hardcore enough to warrant it.
“Sometimes, you just can’t fight the urge to have your hair shaved into lightning bolts, hop a plane to San Francisco, and stand glaring in chaps on a stage in front of 1,500 drunken lunatics.” So awesome. He ended up getting 7th in the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, but had such a great time he’s already looking to it again next year. Windhammer, don’t let the dream die.
Grandma wins.
I nice little slideshow from the Guardian showing different pieces of Obama’s brand strategy.
“Oh! I’ve got a this problem with my email…” An absolutely perfect infographic depicting the problem our industry faces when we try and explain what we do.
Enthralling interactive graphic from the New York Times showing torch designs throughout the history of the modern games.
“LED lighting can eliminate the need to build 133 coal-fired power plants, thereby saving 258 million tons of greenhouse gases, which could equate to powering 12 million American homes a year.” Gorgeous and environmentally friendly.
I skimmed them quickly because I don’t want to ruin watching the opening ceremony tonight but these look like some fantastic photos from the Big Picture.
“Georgia’s president said Friday that his country is under attack by Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilians as tensions over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict.” Wow. I hate that first thing that popped into my head was that Russsia might just be jealous of the spotlight being on China for the Olympics.
Very slick and I’ve always liked Waterfield designs stuff. I’m not usually a fan of any iPhone cases, but people who know me well know I’m all about the slim wallet and this might be a way to combine both the iPhone and wallet into one thing in the pocket. Tempting, very tempting.
“Personally I feel I no longer have anything to share with the so-called graphic design of today: not the concept, not the typefaces, not the layout—nothing. Therefore, I conclude that I am no longer a graphic designer, but an information architect, and from now on that is how I will describe the meaning of my work and the scope of my activity. For me, to be an information architect means to organize information in a way that is essentially retrievable, understandable, visually captivating, emotionally involving, and easily identifiable. Information should be semantically rooted, syntactically correct, pragmatically efficient. It doesn’t work otherwise.” - Massimo Vignelli Again, I’m not interested in the semantic debate about this but I like the sentiment.
“More interesting, you can architect a business model or a pricing structure to make it far more effective at generating the behavior you’re looking for. Most broken websites aren’t broken because they violate common laws of good design. They’re broken because their architecture is all wrong. There’s no strategy in place.” The semantics of Information Architect, Designer, Visual Designer, Interaction Designer, etc. don’t really interest me anymore, but I do agree with Jeff’s commentary about educating the public more about what’s happening behind the scenes “design” and in particular web design. It’d be fantastic if clients knew even just a little more about what goes into creating a great website. It would sure make my job a lot easier.
Excellent new music video and a karaoke version of Foux da fa fa by my friend and neighbor Wes. “Created for the third annual Karaoke Challenge hosted by Northwest Film Forum and Three Dollar Bill Cinema.”
Another thoughtful post from Matt Brown about design critiquing. I don’t really see bloggers changing their ways though. Strong voiced, controversial posts get traffic because people feel a need to comment on them.
Interesting new browser concept Adaptive Path did for Mozilla Labs. Lots of good, well thought out concepts but like a concept car this isn’t something we’ll be seeing anytime soon.
Hilarious, was going to mention it’s a bit graphic, but whatever, it’s text, deal.
“What we think vs. what they say we think — All the chatter on the Internet, all the traditional news media coverage, and all the pollsters — Perspctv brings it all together in a simple and elegant manner — and gives a unique “dashboard” picture of the elections at any one given moment in time, totally un-biased.” A set of infographics combining traditional news media information with what’s being said on Twitter and blogs. A good looking visualization and I love the “perspective” it gives you putting everything on one page, very nice.
I got to be heavily involved with Blue Flavor in the site/navigation structure for the new SXSW.com, and I’m really stoked with how it came out. Well done Shawn and Hugh with getting it all implemented so quickly. Looking forward to seeing more of our suggestions implemented.
Great diagram outlining how integral film works.
I’m not one to keep a calendar, but I love the concept with this one. It reminds me a bit of my old seasonal design I had for 110am.
I love the new redesign. It’s clean, straight forward, ad free and there’s finally a character counter to let me know how long my description can be instead of being randomly being cut off. I’ve almost switched to ma.gnolia three or four time, but was always turned off by the ads. With this redesign I don’t see any reason to switch now. Well done del.icio.us design team.
Just what I’ve been looking for. Since I’m still a Django noob whenever I step outside of creating templates, I’ve been needing some good testing environments to start to learn. I’ll be checking these out hopefully in the next few days.
“Designed by the Japanese illustrator Satoshi Hashimoto, it shows how to create a borough that’s green, clean, and well-connected - as envisioned by the urbanist Alejandro Gutierrez.” Want.
“Rock the Corporate Ladder”
It’s shocking, don’t be alarmed, but it’s a good looking PC. It’s even from Dell!
I’m more excited for this than I was for Helvetica and that’s saying something!
A nice follow up to the previous article about budgets and website pricing on the Blue Flavor blog. It’s never easy to explain to someone how much a site costs, but this gives you a good idea what Blue Flavor generally charges.
A nice discussion about why it can be better for everyone if the budget is discussed up front. You’ve got to build that trust up first!
“Home to 8,000 people, Kuzumaki is lucky enough to have a territory of 400 square kilometres (154.4 square miles), an area the size of Yokohama with its 3.6 million residents.” Ah… my old home in Japan.
“While the firefighters were reportedly saddened by the sight of 63 people burning to death, on the way back to the firehouse they agreed the club was probably just full of stuck-up bitches anyway.”
I’ll stop linking to The Big Picture… someday.
I love all the bundles in Textmate, except how difficult they are to install. GetBundle makes easy to quickly grab ‘em. Highly recommended.
Just a concept but I’d love to see Coke actually produce something like this.
I’d love to get my pile of corks turned into a few sample tiles. I plan on sending what I’ve got in this weekend.
“Leave it to the Japanese to come up with the best way to demo a building. No muss, no fuss. It’s just brilliant. And 20% faster than the old way, which is messy, indeed.”
I’ve wanted to get twatson [at] me.com since I realized this was coming out and have now acquired it. My username OCD is now complete.
@#$%&?!!! for swearing is apparently a grawlix, well not officially yet, but I’m going to start using the term.
Can’t wait for this. I’m a radio addict and can’t get enough NPR. I’ll definitely be taking a close look at this API when it gets released. Excited to see what “widgets” they’ll be releasing as well.
Numbers and frequency distribution geekery
“Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Gillette is the best a man can get.”
I think these will elevate my pong game to a whole other level.
Nice heat map of the most walkable neighborhoods in Seattle. Wallingford coming in at a respectable #10.
Some more photos and information about Ercolini Park on the West Seattle Blog. There’s also this video on Blip.tv of the actual ribbon cutting too.
“A More Perfect Union spells out the preamble to the United States Constitution with forty friends in a high school gym in New York City.” Touching and well done.
Some gruesome and gorgeous shots from The Big Picture.
A great set of tips here and I particularly like this bit: “Yes, designers can make mistakes and take wrong directions. And yes, you need to give them direction. But you must tell them what you need, not how to achieve that goal.”
I’ve done it and it worked great. If you’re antsy and want to get it a few hours early this article from Wired seems to be the best one out there.
“Their latest mission involved filling a subway car with identical twins, creating a human mirror. Genius.” Genius indeed.
And people say Twitter isn’t good for anything.
Sara’s great new technique using CSS to put captions on top of photos. I got to help with it since my new homepage design was the guinea pig, and as a designer I have to say I totally love it. Flexible, clean, and sexy. Well done.
A little video project I did for Blue Flavor, and a bit more about why on the Blue Flavor blog as well.
The future is here. Still no word on my jet pack order though. I’m blaming UPS.
“How’d a nit wit like you get so tasteful.”
Some fantastic commentary from Matt Brown about shooting in a digital world. I know I’m a “chimper”. I’m hoping to try out some of these ideas to try and see how it affects my shooting.
Sucralose, high fructose corn syrup, all of it is disgusting. I’m don’t consider myself a health nut but I like to eat food, real food and the fact that this stuff keeps getting shoved into more and more products is sad.
Iron, Ampersand, yes please.
From the Big Picture. My new favorite blog.
“The chance of finding something you love doing? So much more achievable.” I love my job. I hope you do too.
“When I was a kid, the mythical fireworks destination was spoken only in hushed tones behind the shadowiest of schoolyard simulated tugboat play-structures: Blackjack Fireworks.” Cabel, I’m right there with you.
I’m not a comic book fan, but damn that looks cool.
So. Cute. I’m finding it hard to wipe the grin off my face. My great grandparents would be so proud.
“How do you like them apples?”
“Paying attention to productivity is a slippery slope. The system efficiency addiction associated with saving time can become so compelling that your process begins to control more of your time than your product.” Yup.
For those of you over in England and are interested in learning Django I can’t recommend this workshop more. Jeff has pretty much taught me everything I know about Django and is an excellent teacher.
.london and .nyc? Seriously? Ew.
My new camera once I figure out how to pay for it.
Charlotte and Philly. Still waiting on Seattle… sigh.
Jeff Croft heads back to Kansas. Over the past year Jeff was my co-worker, then friend, and then probably my best friend here in Seattle. Hope to have you back here soon buddy!
This is the application I was most excited to see happen and to have it come directly from Apple is even better than I thought it would be.
“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason.”
I love doing work outs like this at home and I like the personal competition and structure of this program. I did the test today and plan to start the regime next week.
Can I have my wedding photos look like this someday? Fantastic stuff. Congratulations Emily and Dan!
These are all awesome, but the Excitebike one is my favorite.
Inspiration abounds.
“and now we have 3!”. Douchebag neck, hilarious.
I’ve never been a big note taker when reading, but I’ve found myself having this same issue about wanting to go back to a few things I found interesting. I’ve always found the whole book a bit intimidating, so this should help.
I generally agree that location based services will be a big deal as the mobile web grows, but I noticed this too when using Brightkite and manual checked in places. I basically spend the majority of my time going to and from work.
“Barack Obama has the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE tattooed on his stomach. It’s upside-down, so he can read it while doing sit-ups.”
A great stencil resource from the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. I plan on field testing these on my next project.
“Despite the stress fractures, he managed to win a U.S. Open that required five days of flinching, grimacing and a long list of spectacular shots that have defined his career.” Holy crap.
EveryBlock makes some small design tweaks that really help. Here’s to hoping it comes to Seattle soon!
Another fun way to visualize all my tags. Sure, it’s not all that practical but it looks pretty nifty.
Matt Brown finds yet another angle on the “skipping Photoshop” design debate. I definitely agree on his take regarding application design vs. “interactive print”. Well said.
Turn your iPod touch into a mini iMac. I wonder if it works with the iPhone.
Fantastic article about the benefits of prototyping. It’s not easy to decide on what type of interaction design deliverable you should use (wireframes, pdd’s, prototypes, etc.), but this article makes a great case for prototypes.
“2005: Derision (“If we go out tonight I’ll send you a fax.”)”
“In 2004 half of executives earned more than 104 times the average worker’s pay.”
The eloquent response.
Great looking new design poster from Blue Art Studio.
“I found an amazing sweater yesterday at Daffy’s and I think it looks very classy. With your permission, I’d like to call the tux place and cancel my order and then wear the sweater (forrest green with mauve cuffs and tulle) at the wedding.”
Happy Father’s day.
Damnit. I really enjoyed watching him on Meet the Press.
Shigeru Miyamoto really is a gaming god with Donkey Kong, Mario, and now the Wii.
Looks to be an incredible line-up of professors and I agree a big moment for Interaction Design. Congratulations Liz!
“It’s about being flexible… context over dogma.” Well said.
“The news is seemingly thrown away into the giant recycle bin in order to be updated at the next moment.” Made me realize how disposable all this news reading I do every day is.
Another well designed interactive infographic showing how different groups voted during the Obama/Clinton presidential primary race.
A very cool data visualization of every bus vehicle arrival at every stop in the Portland area transit system over from 4AM to 12-midnight on a weekday.
After being incredibly frustrated with the usability software available this looks like a breath of fresh air. Can’t wait to see this finally released!
Fantastic explanation on why Seattle, and any other city, should focus on rail lines instead of buses.
My good friend Adam DuVander has a great interview with Robert Hoekman, Jr. I’m interested in trying out his “Activity Grid” on a project that suits it in the future. I’ve also been meaning to pick up his new book, Designing the Moment, too.
Blue Flavor’s Tiffani Jones with some great tips for writing for the web.
Journey found their new lead singer on YouTube and he sounds just like their old one. It makes you wonder how many hours of karaoke it took for him to get there.
Downtown Kuz getting a little internet love.
£25.00 is a little too rich for my blood but I love the shirt.
The way they designed the unlock is fantastic and I like some of the stuff they did with the status bar at the top. None of the other features really wowed me, but it’s good stuff and I love seeing the innovation.
Some awesome 8”x8” prints for $15 from Frank Chimero that depict each state using everyday things. I can’t wait to see Oregon and Washington.
A friend of a friend, great artist, and all around nice guy Robert Hardgrave has one of his designs on a Timbuk2 bag. Don’t miss the Threadless shirts if the bag is out of your price range.
Hosted versions of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, and Dojo javascript libraries. Let Google handle the caching and bandwidth issues for you.
Keegan’s iPhone raises from the dead.
“Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.” For my sister who’s moving there in a week.
“As an intriguing collection of data, A_B_ Peace & Terror etc. reveals the quantitative contribution each of the 192 member states of the United Nations has made towards peace and terror in the world.”
The fantastic new “memetastic” Weezer video.
“A collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997.”
It’s not officially open yet but people snuck in and had a great time!
Apparently Arizona’s got the cheap stuff.
Don’t be a douche.
Sure, it’s all just concepts and hand waving, but very impressive regardless.
Confirms that Seattle’s accent is boring.
Intriguing, cheap and well designed prefab homes. I’m curious how well they hold up though.
And my favorite. Go Oregon!
Park your car in your condo. A new condo plan in New York has an elevator that takes your car up to your condo to park right next to your apartment. Handy for grocery, sucks to be stuck in.
“It’s always darkest before… Daylight Savings Time” and other common proverbs finished by first graders.
Glad to see it’s back, complete with a nice redesign and some “new” features like tagging and comments. It seems quaint that it didn’t have them before. A cold-water-to-the-face reminder of simpler era of the web.
“Do you think they’ll notice?”
Great advice from Ryan Singer over at 37 Signals. Whenever I’m building out site structures I’m constantly thinking about user tasks or “paths” as well.
That’s one sexy houseboat.
The space needles is getting a much needed cleaning for the first time since it opened in 1962.
A fun new tool/game/thing from Cameran Adams. Every time I see one isometric pixel art I can’t help but think of one my all time favorite games, Transport Tycoon.
A comprehensive article from Keith outlining the first part of the Blue Flavor process. It’s all about our process, but I think it’s chalked full of good advice for any agency.
Now that’s my kind of grocery bag.
Tossed off the 30th floor in the financial district.
I couldn’t resist buying “incorporated”. Damn internet fads costing me money.
A fantastic article from George Oates, one of the designers at Flickr. There’s too many quotes in there to choose just one, but it got me thinking about community design in a slightly different way.
Saved, so I can buy one for my sister when she finally gives me that nephew I’ve always wanted.
I’ve already got a few ideas already on how I’d like to use these.
Love the suburban loft plan. I can’t believe they’re just giving away these house plans for free. Maybe in a few years I can take advantage.
I’m still holding out for GPS support either in camera or on a card, but this is a step in the right direction. I like the option of uploading to your home machine instead of immediately online too.
Get yourself a quick $50 if you can applescript your way to Autofill for the iPhone. My music is far to stale on my phone, so I’d love to see something like this available.
I’ve been following along now with the project from Rob Goodlatte and his buddies. It’s not something I’m particularly interested in, but the design and concept is top notch. If you’re on Twitter and need a quick poll look no further.
A jaw dropping animation made in Buenos Aires by a group called BLU. As you watch it you can’t help but wonder how long the damn thing took to make.
“Such a complex world needs a good explanation.”
“Now, of course, the question seems not whether Clinton will exit the race but when.” Sooner rather than later please.
Penguin’s new Ian Fleming’s James Bond covers.
A nice, and looks to be very complete wireframe stencil set from Graffletopia.
Nice new site from Paul Boag for his podcast. I finally met him briefly at SXSW this year and he was great to talk to. The inaugural interview for the new site is friend and fellow Blue Flavorite, Jeff Croft.
I’ve seen many, many people fall into this cycle, and occasionally I even have to pull my self out of it. Focus on the results, not the process is my rule of thumb.
Watch it and tell me you didn’t well up a little bit.
“the U.S. will have to rethink suburban sprawl, bringing an end to strip malls, big-box stores, and other trappings of the automotive era.” Yes please.
A new site redesign that I was involved in. The main props go to Jeff Croft, but I was the project manager, built out the templates and contributed a bit to the overall design.
Digging the new Portland Beavers branding. Growing up in Oregon I’ve learned to appreciate wimpy mascots. There’s no use trying to make them angry, it just looks corny.
“All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments.” Truly stunning infographic from Ben Fry.
I definitely want to try this tiltshifting technique out on a few photos of mine.
Excellent set of stencils for when you need to wireframe out that new iPhone application.
Insane.
As someone who gets 3/4 blisters every time he hikes I’m definitely hopefully. I’ll be picking this up the next time I’m at a drug store.
Garrett, still funny.
Be sure to read the through to the quote at the end.
What doesn’t it do?
“Over the course of 3 days I took over 3,000 photos of my life in and around Boston.” Well. Executed.
A great solution for remote file access. I still don’t know why this wasn’t been built directly into the OS years ago though.
Absolutely stunning design from Naz Hamid, but I really like the story behind the bike shop. Be sure to read the about page.
“36 lectures by people such as Bill Moggridge, Bill Buxton, Elizabeth Churchill, Paul Dourish and Donald Norman.” All up on iTunes U.
Great advertisement that uses black balloons to help visualize CO2 emissions.
The only way Jeff Croft is going to consistently beat me at ping pong is if he gets one of these things.
A free and handy way to upload your photos directly from Photoshop.
“This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned.”
“A walk-in camera obscura.” And now I can’t get Wilco out of my head.
Signed by Massimo Vignelli himself. Anyone have $299 lying around and feeling generous?
Yeah, I played it for a few minutes today. Does that make me sad?
I stunning inforgraphic depicting the subprime mortgage crisis across the U.S.
I offer quite a few feeds on this site but I’ve stuck with just one format. Giving the users the option of what they want to subscribe to is good, giving them unnecessary technical choices is bad.
“In addition to the lighter carbon footprint, Fat Tire can now travel to places where glass is not an option.” Bravo New Belgium, Bravo
Photoshop form elements for various browsers and operating systems.
“re:vision is the product of Craig Arnold’s unbridled passion for cameras, recycling and polishing.” Yeah, I totally want one even if I’d be declaring my camera geekiness on my wrist.
Nice write up from Rob Goodlatte about heading out into the “real world” after graduation. I couldn’t help but think of my sister since she’s graduating in a few short weeks as well.
Great idea. Damn, I wish they had this when I was in New York. Too bad there’s no Subway here in Seattle.
Like dodgeball, but a bit more and hasn’t been abandoned. A nice visual design and the interactions are solid. I’m not ready to predict big things from it yet, but it has potential.
A new resource for developers out there looking to maximize the Flickr API.
I love the all white Munny on my desk, but I’m starting to get the itch to take a shot at customizing him.
Glad to see some classics getting some covers worthy of their content. The cover for Animal Farm is appropriately sinister.
As you can tell from the design of T Inc. I’ve got a big love for newspaper designs, and this little automator script looks like a nice way for me to store up some inspiration archives.
A great little widget for those hard to remember special characters.
“This portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.” Slick.
In and elevator for 41, yes, 41 hours.
I think the block of spam in the oven is my favorite.
“i’m glad you’re having a BABY and i’m not.” And more fantastic letter-pressed cards from Zeichen Press.
The taco salad edition.
So far my favorite way to display polaroids. The clean lines and minimalist look are just perfect.
Keith’s thoughts on Blue Flavor’s new look. It’s great to see the new site launched after all the hard work from everyone at the office. It’s a bit of a bold look but I’m proud with the direction and how it all turned out!
The hippie days.
I wonder if I’d need to get a different charger than my Energizer one I have at home. Regardless, they seem perfect for remotes, wireless mice and keyboards.
Get yer modern on and benefit some homeless students. I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to make it, but I’d like to go take some photos of all those houses when I’m in Portland next.
“Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, Lucinda Williams and Neko Case are among the first acts confirmed for the 2008 Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. ” Shaping up to be a good lineup.
April 27th can’t get here soon enough.
A nicely designed Django project repository by Bryan Veloso. I just wish it had search.
Nice way to view and promote the book. It’s definitely on my wish list.
Love the jumbotron.
Bar charts, timelines, sparklines, oh my. The article by Wilson Miner all about accessible data visualization is chalked full of great ideas and practical ways of implementing them.
A fun and funky lens Nikon no longer makes. Would be a great collector piece if nothing else.
Tease. That flip video is looking very tempting now. Update: It looks like it’s official now. Awesome.
Congratulations to Brian and Cyndi on their new adventure!
Looks like a great way to start hosting something for free just to see where it goes.
Fun little photo contest from Wired.com, the only problem is it makes me wish I had a macro lens.
I had a pisco sour at that same place with my sister!
I’ll also add it’s important to really just accept yourself for who you are, what you can do, and be proud of that. Don’t get caught worrying about all the other stuff being done on the Internet. Be you.
“Pirates seized more than two dozen ships off the Somali coast last year.” Apparently pirates are still out there causing havoc. Who knew?
Obama was asked if he would tap the former vice president for his Cabinet to handle global warming. His response, “I would.” I’m tired of waiting, just give him the nomination already.
I prefer wall decals (since I hate removing wallpaper later) but these look awesome.
For that clever environmentalist hippie in all of us.
Watch the video. I’m still in awe that the guy is still alive.
The fantastic photographer and a good friend of mine, Sara Flemming, has a new blog. She kicked it off with this great post about lens rentals, and I’m not just saying that because I’m in one of the photos.
Stunning. They do a great job combining both the traditional and the modern. When do we get cool coin design here in the U.S.?
It’s a flip calendar for design geeks. Love the design.
Sure glad I didn’t have to wear that when I was playing. “Detachable laced hip pads” Seriously?
It’s Orygun, thank you very much.
Nice review about Virgin airlines. I’m heading down to San Francisco next week, but unfortunately, not on Virgin.
Finally. This has been my biggest issue with using Basecamp with new clients—especially those with who are always on mobile devices. Huge thumbs up that this is happening.
“One of America’s first master-planned postwar suburbs, Westlake was the “inspiration” for Malvina Reynolds’ song Little Boxes.”
Does anyone know if this works with the SX-70 and a filter? I’m tempted just to try it out even if it isn’t “supposed” to work.
Illustrating the frustration of the entire polaroid enthusiast community
Enjoy the killing.
Search by trip quality (legroom, aircraft age, routing quality, lost bags rank, etc.). Slick.
“This completely self-sustaining prefabricated house generates its own power, collects its own water, processes its own waste and is 100% automatic.”
Who’s shooting arrows in my neighborhood? And at dogs? C’mon we’re better than that.
If you still have a few lying around from easter.
“Occasionally someone would notice his value to a project, but instead of giving him the care he deserved, they’d just fork over copious amounts of cash to ship him off to his sketchy uncle SEO, who tied him up and fed him keywords all day long.”
There was a side bit in a West Wing episode about this. The eventual resolution was they couldn’t get rid of the penny because it was still allowed in Illinois toll booths because of Lincoln and Illinois was too important of a primary state.
Was laughing pretty damn hard this last week when I watched it on Saturday Night Live.
“How a camera attached to an elephant’s trunk captured amazing jungle views.” I just hope the elephant was annoyed with that huge camera hanging from its tusk.
Fantastic visualization of the landing site of Apollo 11. I particularly like the soccer field underlay that immediately gives you a sense of scale.
Great poster, but the Obama store has a wish list! Seriously?
I’m finding it hard not to buy one of these right now.
A collection of vintage logos from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes.
I was waiting for when they’d get around to Apple.
There are days when I wish building websites actually was this physical.
Polaroids and Sia in music video. Yeah, that works.
Done entirely in one take!
The speech.
I haven’t watched the entire thing yet, but what I’ve seen it’s incredible. If he really did write it himself that’s just staggering.
“If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it.”
The beginnings of the instant message chat bubble.
Excited to try playing with the downloadable fonts. Sure it’ll only work in Safari, but if it’s easy I’d love for my headlines to be set in Gotham without going through all the trouble with sIFR.
Seth Godin on doing remarkable things instead of worrying about your resume. Agreed.
A good hands on review from James Duncan Davidson. More justification to pick up a new machine.
I’ve been wondering why I was so frustrated with Aperture on my home iMac, but after reading this review it makes sense. I just need a faster system. I’ll just stick with iPhoto for now.
Makes me want to pack up all my belongings, hop on a plane and move down south.
Happy birthday Mr. Ray. Sounds like one hell of a day.
I got a lot of business cards at SXSW this year, but I really love the interactive concept on this one.
3.1415926535…
Like every other Pixar film it looks fantastic.
Everything here looks great and I can’t wait to see what new applications start coming out. The only problem? It’s not coming out until June.
“Our meeting in early 2007 was probably one of the last times Senator Obama was able to spend an hour and a half sitting down and talking with just about anyone.”
I love this idea and with all my wall space in my apartment I’m seriously considering doing something like it.
Great tips on all aspects of UX design from the guys down the street at Google here in Seattle. I agree with a lot that’s said, but I lean towards removing all color instead of making things look unfinished to keep the focus on interactions.
“If one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.”
David Yocum and Brian Bell converted an old electrical parts building into their office and home—absolutely stunning.
These are no floppy disc coasters but they look pretty damn cool. I think the cows are my favorite.
I’m surprised and a bit sad about it but it’s probably for the best.
It’s impressive they’re letting you recycle any cell phone even if it’s not an iPhone. Well done Apple.
Sure, I’m sad to see him go, but I’m excited for his future prospects. I hope the sketch comedy finally works out too. He’s got some mad talent.
If it’s got the legroom I’d buy it in a second.
Love the name and the concept and I like the shoe, but still no word on improved worker conditions from Nike. If anyone knows how I might be able to get my hands on a pair let me know.
It’s always cool when the restaurant 2 blocks from your place is featured in the New York Times.
If it wasn’t for the hefty “euro” tax I’d probably already have ordered these.
More great infographic porn from the New York Times but National Treasure… really?
Awesome instructional video by Charles and Ray Eames on the SX-70.
A great resource. I really like the trend toward more “speaking” block navigation. It’s not perfect for all situations but it’s incredibly effective how it gives users even more information about what’s behind the link.
Hilarious self-reflecting humor.
Even back in 1986 too much stuff was funny.
Looks to be an informative series from Cameron Moll. I find myself needing to make prototypes more and more these days and I’d love for some extensible techniques that allow me to focus more time on the interactions.
That lineup looks awesome. I’m definitely going this year, I just need to decide if I’m going to camp or try and impose on my aunt and uncle.
It’s like they knew I was doing color mixes.
I dig it.
These videos are like accidents on the side of the road. You want to look away, but you can’t and you don’t know why.
Incredible optical illusion that makes you see a black and white image in color.
You can jump to any point in the debate by clicking on the text or categories on the right. Hats off to the folks at the New York Times for a great system to view this debate.
“Archer, the colorful slab serif.” Now where did I put that spare $400 that was just lying around?
Powerful and incredibly well done infographic “maps”. Somalia was the most surprising to me.
Apparently Greg and company are having a 5 day Xbox tournaments instead. Still great tips for navigating SXSW Interactive.
Nathan Borror over at Playground Blues talks about how he setup his Django powered site for mobile, and for him that meant an iPhone site. It looks great, and now I just wish I had some snazzy icons like his for my sections.
It makes me smile that I choose Gotham for similar reasons.
A nice looking new Twitter application by Rob Goodlatte and Dan Romero. Clever.
I’ve spent years entering items into Quicken, but about a year ago I just stopped. It was becoming too much work for the benefit but this new application solves both problems. It’s the balancing your checkbook if the future.
A great, and varied collection of wallpapers for the iPhone and iPod touch.
He’s coming to show his work here in Seattle on March 6th, but I’m curious if it’ll run for a few weeks since I’ll be at SXSW. I’ve been following his Flickr stream for a while now and would love to get one of his prints. Anyone know the details?
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has created some awesome new template tags for Google Charts. Don’t miss the example page.
These shots brought me right back to Japan! Great photos as always from Sara.
Videos of presentations from Interaction 08. Now I just need to find the time to watch a few of them…
Nice article about Tufte’s “computer administrative debris”. You can easily take this concept of removing debris too far, but it’s important to keep these ideas in your mind while you’re designing interfaces.
Here’s to hoping actual change does occur down there.
A bit of a sensationalized title but a great piece regardless. It’s hard for me to not link to every post from this blog.
This is way too much fun to play with—don’t miss the keyboard shortcuts!
Rex Sorgatz does a fantastic job interviewing Adrian Holovaty about EveryBlock. I wish I got to hang out a few more times with Rex before he headed out to NY.
Incredible gallery of photos depicting some strange things going on in the U.S. Be sure and read the captions.
Poonovation - Coming Summer 2008
“If you go far enough left or right you end up on the other side.” - Bill Patterson, my high school history professor
I grew up with Indy and have always been a huge fan of this series. After watching this it looks it’ll be a solid addition and won’t ruin my view of the first three. At least that’s my hope.
I’m not sure what the application will end up being, I’m guessing a stats application based on the chart the guerilla is holding, but I love the effect they did with the vines. Be sure and resize the window.
Very, very clever. Be sure and check out the second image.
I love my KEXP, and this looks like a great service to let you explore even more of what they’ve been playing.
It’s no iPhone user interface but this new gallery set looks a lot better then almost all the the other mobile phone user interfaces out there. I’m glad to see the competition.
The reference for when that TV show you’re dying to watch will be back along with estimates with how many episodes.
Nicely designed site that uses Twitter updates to keep you informed about traffic problems. Probably one of my favorite apps using Twitter although with my commute being only a mile and a half I don’t see myself using it much.
A great collection of infographics for purchase although the online viewing leaves a lot to be desired.
Interesting, although a somewhat clinical article on the history of the word “pimp”. Pimp on!
A nice collection of user interfaces on the web. I’ve had a few ideas about doing something like similar to this last year but just haven’t had the time. I’m glad someone is compiling some good interaction design reference material.
I wish they’d make it available here in the U.S. although I gave up almost all soda/pop a long time ago.
Garrett Dimon’s new company for his upcoming bug tracking software. Love the name, love the logo, and I’m excited to see the product come together.
Old timey clock screen saver for OS X. My grandparents still have a few clocks like this at their place and that flip just brings back the nostalgia.
A fantastic photoset of Obama during a rally on Flickr. I wish I was the one who took those photos.
A very carefully exploded VW.
Leaflets, Blue Flavor’s suite of web apps designed for iPhone, is a finalist for the SXSW web awards for mobile.
I’ve always enjoyed this effect on Cabel’s site, and now you too can use it! Very cool.
I go and buy an old polaroid camera and then they go and do this! Figures. I’m going to stock up, but it’s really going to make pressing that shutter button a lot harder.
It’s nice to know I had a little bit of something to do with that.
I sure hope this is true. TV has been pretty sad without them.
Interesting view from Dan Saffer. I’ve really been enjoying A Brief Message.
For those of you still confused about if you can caucus if you’re not registered to vote: “You don’t even have to be registered to vote to caucus! Just show up and you can register on-site.” Go. Caucus.
Great set of mid-century modern house plans on Flickr. Why don’t people build architecturally interesting “average” homes anymore?
“How Much Does It Buy? is a currency converter for those of us who aren’t day traders.” Entertaining.
We got some room dividers from this site a few weeks ago for the office which are slick and the rest of their products look awesome as well. I love the focus on sustainable materials too.
I try and use a cloth bag, but I also like using the paper bags for my recycling. Looking at this though, all that energy used when they recycle is scary. The fact that 7 in 10 Americans don’t know that plastic is made from petroleum is crazy.
I’m looking forward to caucusing on Saturday.
Yeah, that’s just a whole lot better then my current Ikea special gracing my desk.
I got to go listen to the pompous, but fantastic Edward Tufte. I listed a some of the inspirational quotes over on the Blue Flavor blog.
A 360-degree view of where I like to go running. Be sure and click and spin it around to get the full effect.
Yum. I hear they’re good for you too.
Looks like a great list if you’re living here in Seattle.
The unpacking of an unopened Apple //c from 1988. It’s nerd computer porn at its best.
The quality of lego bricks have always been incredible. When I was growing up I remember competitors trying and they just always felt cheap. Be sure to check out the slideshow.
Congratulations Mike and the Newsvine team for making this happen. I’m excited to see what more they have in store as MSNBC and Newsvine become more integrated.
I absolutely love these posters/prints. I’m trying to figure out how to buy one but it looks like he’s just doing limited edition runs at this point, and I can’t find the “hope” one on his site.
I might need to get a little crafty here soon.
Edward Tufte giving kudos to the iPhone but also talking about ways it could be improved. I’m heading down to SF this weekend and get to see him speak on Monday.
A behind the scenes look at how some graphic design students put together some impressive special effects.
Some truly inspiring infographics on visualizing the bible. I’m not particularly religious but this are definitely godly.
A fantastic quote regardless of where it came from.
Great new site from Adrian Holovarty, Wilson Miner, and crew. I just wish they had an EveryBlock for Seattle!
The evils of hidden fees throughout your life. It’s incredible how poorly companies treat consumers. Being upfront to a customer is less profitable then confusing one.
Great insights about the MacBook Air. I’m in agreement with almost all of what he says and I particularly liked the last line giving a nod to ubiquitous connectivity.
Great interview. I’ve been reading his 79 essays on design and they’ve been really entertaining. I love the part in this interview about Catcher in the Rye. My first experience with that book was with the maroon cover and I’m so glad it was.
It’s been so long it’s easy to forget how great the original Looney Tunes really were.
Another great post from ideasonIdeas about the emotional effect designs have on us, and how that should be the focus when selling your value to clients.
My personal favorite is of course the King Dome.
“If you can sit then you can get fit… the Hawaii chair!”
I’ve always felt it dirty when you might suggest inviting someone to come over and play with your Wii. This confirms it.
I’m not a big user of the google application suite, but I poked around with this implementation and it looks like a great implementation for those that do.
Sounds like the initial impressions are very good. I’m definitely anxious to get my hands on one. I haven’t pre-ordered mine yet, but I’m close, very close.
Now there’s a sexy poster.
An informative infographic outlining casualties in Iraq. I was surprised to see the map break down of where the violence was happening, since throughout the war I’ve just been hearing numbers and province names on NPR.
Looks like an interesting alternative to Tumblr if you’re looking for a host yourself option.
A great invention inspired by the oscillation of the Tacoma narrows bridge collapsing. I hope they’ll be some great practical uses for it soon.
This has drove me nuts for years so I’m glad I finally found a solution that works at least for now.
I’ve been guilty of this in the past but I completely agree with Shawn here. Well said.
Over on the Blue Flavor blog I talk about the basic concept of setting expectations and how it relates to making sure a project is successful. It’s such a simple thing but you have to be consistent and that’s what makes it so tough.
They are opening up their API so you can get access to neighborhood data which is going to be perfect for a project I’m working on. Awesome.
A bit of javascript that makes your IE worries melt away. It sounds almost too good to be true but I’ll definitely take a look at this later.
A fun collection of modern wall decorations.
One of my favorite posts ever. For those of you who know me I’m very much a minimalist and pretty much despise clutter and too much “stuff”. It’s a bit long but take the time to read it through if you can.
A new favorite quote of mine.
Spot on advice. You just can’t say it enough how important it is to have a strong relationship between the designer, the users, and the developers building the product. It’s so simple but listening, really listening goes a long way.
I’ve never been able to actually use a printed calendar (I jumped on board digital ones long ago) but this design solution is incredibly clever.
Color me jealous. Some truly fantastic work done with an SX-70.
“The Large Hadron Collider promises to recreate the conditions right after the Big Bang.” Big science has always fascinated me. “Yeah, it might cause a black whole and devour the planet, but we should go for it.”
Since Steve Jobs is numero uno the fanboy in me just couldn’t not let me not post this.
I’m not a big fan of resolutions either (my past two years have been “touching my toes”) but I like this one from Bronwyn.
I hear it’s great, but I’m afraid to try since I’ve heard it’s nearly impossible to stop playing. Give it a spin if you dare…
For those of you out there with private photos who want to show those photos to people who aren’t on Flickr. One more reason why I love Flickr and its openness.
Looks like a great way to display a polaroid. Filing this away for future gift giving or when my walls are looking a little bare.
I couldn’t be happier but this bit from the article blew me away “The Democratic caucus results do not reflect the actual percentage of people who expressed a preference for a particular candidate.” They use a “complex formula” instead.
Playing videogames and staying fit, I’ll believe it when I see it but this game looks awesome. I’m definitely getting one when it comes out.
I really like the idea of this especially with my new Apple TV, I’m just annoyed with the 24 hour thing. I wish there was a way it was just deleted when I was done watching. It’s simple and it keeps me from worrying about going past any time limit.
