Jotted down to remember.
“The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones. Lack of health insurance is a factor in life span and contributes to an estimated 45,000 deaths a year.” Be sure and click on the graph.
She’s got game.
Beautifully creepy.
Just a slightly different than average perspective on the snow storm.
Sure, -25º C is cold, but Kuzumaki was a pretty wicked place to spend a year.
Saved for that day when I’ve got money to afford it.
Want. Definitely prefer the black/silver one.
Simple understated type and gorgeous photography make for some damn beautiful posters. New Zealand and Argentina are my favorites.
Damn, this is just gorgeous.
Pimp. I’m skeptical of the arms being long enough for me but I totally want this jacket.
Beautifully executed idea.
Anyone have a spare $200,000 to lend me?
Looks like a fantastic new strap by James Duncan Davidson and Greg Koenig. I’ve always been frustrated with my camera strap not really working well as a neck/shoulder/messenger strap. This looks to be an ideal solution although isn’t quite as sexy as these High Key camera straps.
Saved for that day when I get around to buying a house.
Man, I wish I could find someplace to buy this. I’ve got some birthday money burning a hole in my pocket.
I absolutely adore these design solutions to everyday products. Dig the multi-adapter solution as well.
Been doing this stuff here on T Inc. for years. This just reminds me I need to step up my info visualization game a bit.
Norway just looks creepy.
“Hear come the Men in Black… Welcome to Miami”.
Gorgeous.
Charisma.
Fantastic visualization of flags turned into pie charts based on the percentage of each color in each flag.
I can’t wait to try this out. Love the hand straps.
“In praise of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances — those unsung metal emblems and badges that are overlooked, forgotten, damaged, lost to time or the dump.” I absolutely adore these logos, and this site shows them off brilliantly.
Handmade in Portland and named after the town my mom was born in, yeah, these are going to be tough to resist.
“Good luck!”
Gorgeous.
My good friend Garrett’s film won top honors at the Bumbershoot!
“It also gains faster AF and a ‘full-press snap’ mode that jumps to a preset focus distance for fast street shooting. It can also shoot a burst of up to 5 RAW files in continuous or bracketing mode.” I’m way behind on this but damn, still sexy.
Looks like I nice, albeit very simplified approach to data visualization from data.gov information.
“Computers are too hard to use, they require us to waste our brains learning too many things that aren’t REAL knowledge, they’re just stupid computer conventions.”
“You don’t have to take my word for it.”
I think I’ve watched this at least 4 times now.
I love reading about the design process, but this video showing the evolution of Convert for the iPhone is even better.
& pimp.
A great resource of photos of gorgeous hand painted signs from around the world.
The Impossible Project is definitely targeting the right demographic with this, but it’s so just pandering to the hipsters.
This is just beautiful. I’ve been looking for a new wallet too, since my recycled tie wallet has started to show some serious wear.
But is it T Incorporated?
Love them all, but I think Pong is my favorite.
Sure, it’s not really no logo, but I dig the minimal aestetic and the concept even if it is a publicity stunt.
I love my new bank.
“How can you make today better? Do it again the next day. Put it on your calendar. Spend two minutes thinking about this each morning.” I’ve heard things similar to this before, but this is a great reminder.
Love these, I was able to resist only buying one, but I might have to break down and get a few more. I have too many cameras these days!
“Here’s a surprise: Wild crows can recognize individual people. They can pick a person out of a crowd, follow them, and remember them — apparently for years. But people — even people who love crows — usually can’t tell them apart. So what we have for you are two experiments that tell this story.”
Absolutely love the new design. Does anyone know who did it?
Can’t. Stop. Drooling. Great iconography work here.
I’m addicted to reading and finding as much as I can about this mission with this anniversary. I didn’t live through it, and yet I feel connected and mesmerized by the events. It makes me a bit sad when I think about NASA and my perception of it now. I really do hope great things will come from NASA and space exploration in my lifetime, but I’m skeptical.
Want. These are absolutely gorgeous, but the national parks one is by far my favorite.
Nice looking set of icons for the iPhone tool bar in vector form.
“Eye-Fi has developed a version of its wireless SDHC memory cards aimed at the pro market. The Eye-Fi pro supports RAW file transfer and allows the creation of ad hoc connections to a computer or mobile device (without the need for a wireless router or internet connection). It also incorporates a new selective transfer feature that downloads only images that the user has marked as locked or protected. The Eye-Fi Pro is now available for a retail price of $149.” I’ve never been excited about the Eye-Fi mainly because of all the reasons this new addresses. It’s definitely tempting and I’d love to hear from people who have given it a thorough test run.
“I think creativity can solve anything, ANYTHING!”
Gorgeous stuff from Paul Tebbott. I really want to try my hand at some posters in this style. He and Scott Hansen are just so damn good.
Damn this looks good. I really wish I could buy the series somewhere other than subscribing to HBO though. I really don’t want to have to wait until this comes out on DVD or iTunes.
Former co-worker, Tiffani Jones’ new freelance business. If you’re looking for top quality copywriting, especially for web and mobile audiences, look no further. She’s fantastic.
Some previously unreleased photos of Audrey Hepburn. Damn, she was attractive.
So. Good.
Nice little preview of Josh Bryant and Levi Nunnink’s new file sharing service.
My favorite part of this chart is that they call the 00’s the “Noughties”.
“Too many entrepreneurs stop after they build the product. They think that building products is what makes them an entrepreneur. But entrepreneurship is about building businesses, and the product is just one part of that.”
Whoa. That’s right behind my desk!
Friend and kickass designer/developer Shaun Inman has launched his new feed reading application Fever. It looks great and is something I’ve been hoping someone would develop for a long time. I don’t see mass adoption for something like this, but for those of you willing to dangle your feet in a little web geekery it looks fantastic. Both beautifully and smartly designed it definitely looks “hot”.
I’m definitely hoping the camera body isn’t plastic, but I love the 17mm f/2.8 prime they are showing. I’m really hoping the image quality is up to snuff, because this micro four thirds has me camera lusting.
Reading this while working at Facebook is definitely a surreal experience.
Gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
Love the concept of this new nested/stackable bookshelf idea although I’d prefer it in white.
Batman!
“Meteorologists campaign to classify unique ‘Asperatus’ clouds seen across the world.” $20 bucks says this is a man made “Asperatus”.
Hilarious. Be sure and watch the whole thing. It just keeps getting better and better.
I absolutely love these. This geometric style of art has to be one of my favorites.
Apparently, I stumbled into a good hood.
Done all in one take with live music.
Mesmerizing.
“Once again I’d like to remind our contestants there are proper bathroom facilities IN the studio.” There have been a lot of funny SNL Jeopardy skits, but this is a phenomenal one.
Saved for after the move down to San Francisco. I’ve wanted a cast iron skillet for years, but didn’t want to deal with all the seasoning issues. This looks like the perfect alternative.
Okay, so sure the series was a disaster but look at that title card! Sexy.
It’s a “rival of the British Rail Alphabet designed by Margaret Calvert of Kinneir Clavert Associates in the early 1960s.” Looks like a great alternative to Helvetica and I love all the weights it comes in too.
Another gorgeous font from H&FJ in the Clarendon vein.
“Not that it doesn’t cause problems. If he walks a hitter, fans will start hollering, “Try the other side!” People want him to sign autographs with both hands. And switch-hitters will switch batter’s boxes, making Venditte switch the glove, starting a cat-and-mouse game that can go on for 10 minutes. Minor league umps now have the Venditte Rule: At the start of an at-bat, the pitcher must declare his throwing arm, then the hitter can pick his side, with each man able to switch once. Phew.”
Be sure to watch it in HD. Wow.
I just might have to get myself a little apartment warming gift on May 18th.
Coke, summer and vector graphics. They had me at Coke, but damn these are beautiful.
Want.
I just love these ads where they take over a large public place by surprise for a few minutes.
Addictive, fun and I love the inforgraphic style graphics.
Addictive, fun and I love the inforgraphic style graphics.
Regardless of your political or religious views about a book like this, it’s hard to deny that it’s absolutely gorgeous.
One of my favorites yet from The Big Picture. I love how abstract everything looks from above.
I’m way to late to this, but it’s still awesome.
John Gruber was kind enough to link to my newly relaunched photo site, Level & Tap.
Congratulations to Garrett and Shawn for getting their movie into Hoboken International Film Festival. I’m still bitter there isn’t any wheat on the site though.
I forgot how much I enjoy Mark Pilgrim sometimes. Very well said sir, very well indeed.
My good friend Laura Brunow Miner is leaving JPG magazine. A tough decision, especially in the tough economy, but in the end I’m sure she’ll be happier. She’s an incredible individual and I have no doubt she’ll succeed in her future endeavors. Just recently she’s been a massive help to me, curating a fantastic photo series over on Level & Tap.
Love the soviet feel with this. I do wish they’d made a set of lowercase characters though too.
“ME: I would rather be flayed alive and gradually guillotined than use a telephone. BELL: Operators are standing by.”
Bringing bullet time to a whole new level.
Maureen Dowd comes across as defensive, angry and just plain mean when interviewing Biz Stone and Evan Williams.
Laura Brunow Miner has been helping me a ton curating some beautiful photos for her new series over on the newly relaunched Level & Tap.
Finally.
This infographic that was created for NYC street vendors because of the massive language barrier they had to overcome when trying to explain various rules and regulations in a fairly loose economy. I’m curious to see how effective the technique was and if there’s some hard data to support it working, but I adore the concept. Some fun statistics in the sample. I had no idea Jerry Seinfeld used to be a street vendor, or Macy’s started as a push cart!
“Film photography is a beautiful thing.”
I absolutely love this. My great grandfather used these same galvanized iron parts to create railings and grape arbors all over his house. It’s retro and nostalgia all rolled into one beautiful lamp.
Love this. Anyone know what font this ampersand is from?
Nice little post by Laura Bruno Miner about giving photographers credit. Anything, even something this minor, should be done to help out with this.
I’m a bit concerned that this is still more focused on the “Big” in big & tall clothing but I like the track jackets and hoodies and would love to get one. If anyone out there has bought something let me know!
Great interview from Laura Brunow Miner with up and coming photographer Reed Young.
That expression is priceless—near perfect concentration for something that seems so random.
An old PDD article I wrote got posted up on Wireframes Magazine.
“That photo lounge on the 28th floor is now called the internet, and photographic field notes that used to be traded over coffee now pulse around the world in, well, a flash.”
I’m sure this is cost prohibitive and probably not very environmentally friendly, but it’s still a great concept.
Love the song and while I’m not a huge tilt shift photo fan the effect here in this video is great.
I love it. Clean, fresh, direct and although I haven’t seen one on the shelf I have a feeling it’ll stand out well against other bagged chips. Well done Hornall Anderson.
Be sure and click on the photos.
I’ve ranted about this before, but it’s good to hear other people feel the same way.
“My brother is a shoe store DJ. My father is a shoe store DJ. My grandfather was a shoe store DJ. The day I left the trade, some in my family cursed me. But now I’m having the last laugh.”
I’m not a huge fan of this effect, but it can be fun every now and then and I’m curious how the iPhone interface works something like this.
Dave was kind enough to donate quite a few little goodies for my Polaroid Breakfast at SXSW this year, video conferenced in and is more passionate about Polaroid then anyone I’ve met. I’m more than excited that he’s leading up this initiative and can’t wait to see what comes from all of his efforts.
My hometown is bleeding.
“I’m one take baby that’s all. I’m one take.”
Incredible stuff from Tomas Nilsson.
The third in a series of five second animation clips for a group project Greyscale Gorilla started. I haven’t been able to choose a favorite yet and plenty keep making me wish it was a 10 second project.
October is too a long time to wait for this. I also love The Arcade Fire playing the background.
Ansel Adams on visualization. I’d never seen Ansel Adams on film before this, it’s quiet elegant how he talks about photography. Great stuff.
I got to spend a dinner, okay half a dinner, well, alright more like a quarter of a dinner talking to Merlin Mann, mostly his android phone, but whatever, I’d wanted to meet him for years. He and John Gruber’s talk was my favorite at SXSWi this year, and getting to spend some time really talking to him in person probably made the trip for me. He’s all over the place and a massive personality that at times is overwhelming, but he’s a great guy and his post pretty much sums up my feelings about SXSWi this year.
“Since the 50’s, “Motor City” lost more than half of its population. Nowadays, its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great civilization.” Mesmerizing set of photos. Until seeing these I had no interest in every visiting Detroit. Now I desperately want to go with my cameras.
Some of my favorite actors/actresses paired with my favorite writer. Yeah, I’m excited.
We’re live!
Really like what Matt Brown’s done with this. It’s an idea I’ve wanted to do for a while if I was on my own. Very reminiscent of 37Signals before they became just a product company. I’ll be checking in to see how it works out for him, but I wish him best with it. Love the design too!
Finally got around to reading Mike Davidson’s excellent article about the end of the P.I. I appreciate that he tries to keep it positive and offer ideas and solutions instead of focusing on the past and the demise. It’s sad to see the P.I. go, but it’s important to focus on what’s next.
“Scans of sandwiches for education and delight.” Yum.
“Almost as much a condo as a car. Truly one of the worlds most versatile future cars.”
Sick.
This free font from exljbris is, well, delicious. That ampersand just might be new favorite.
It’s was just for an art project of his, but damn do I want to be able to buy this.
I’m so glad they were able to make this happen. Congratulations to my friend Laura and everyone there!
Been linked to from just about everywhere, but it’s still great. A nearly perfect job of visualization and narrative to help explain a complex issue clearly.
Damn, those are some badass blocks. Really love the lack of explanation that’s needed. For a lot of stuff demoed you can really just start playing with them.
Hilarious.
Disappointing.
I’m not sure if this place is still around, but if I make it back to London, I’ve got to go here and take photos. Creepy, yet so awesome.
My car’s taillights inspired a beautiful new chair design. I want one!
I wish they’d just own up and admit that high fructose corn syrup doesn’t taste as good. I’m a coke guy myself, so here’s to hoping they follow suit and introduce a Coca-cola “throwback” even if it’s just for a little while.
“The goal is to keep the clamp time below 30 minutes,” Laungani Twittered. “25 minutes left!!!”
“Some computer scientists think it’s time for an overhaul.” Big science comes to computer science. It’s long, but a very interesting read.
Great article by Michael Bierut about the “old ways” of doing graphic design. I did spend some hours in high school with a T-square and my handwriting (in all caps) was formed from that drafting class, but for the most part my tools have always been using computers. I often wonder the same things he is though about the price we pay for all this instant work we’re able to do. What’s lost in the careful thought when you create something that can’t be easily changed later? It happens when I shoot digital photos too. I can’t help but think about how easily I can manipulate it in post production. When I grab my Polaroid though, there’s something more deliberate, slower that I really like.
I do the select/deselect text thing all the time.
At $200 this is a fantastic lens for the money. I’m going to have a tough time resisting this one when it comes out in March.
I like this, I just wish the PDF had a few more per page. It’s such a waste of paper like it is now.
That’s one big spider. Creepy, yet very cool.
Damn that’s a good looking ampersand.
Looks a lot better than the original, but I’m holding off judgement until I’m able to see one in person.
Looks intense, but obviously I love the photography theme.
Fun!
Figures this comes out right after I launch my site. After reading up on it, I’m not sure it’d work with what I needed (I have to have variable shipping costs) but I might try it out with another project since it looks simple to use and the extra level of integration looks slick.
My good friend Adam DuVander is writing a book about Map Scripting. I’ve been reading his writing for years, on his blog and over at Web Monkey, so I have little doubt it’ll be fantastic.
Great set of themes for NetNewsWire. Love Brockmann and Haaus.
Beautifully done.
Can’t wait for this little 8 bit game from Shaun Inman. Love the retro look!
“Now Lionel starts going lotto-champagne crazy, squirting multimillionaire athletes up the nose, in the eyes and down the shorts. He pours an entire bottle over the head of slugger Ryan Howard. Matt Stairs gives him a head butt. He kisses pitcher Jamie Moyer on the cheek and yells, ‘Thank you for everything!’ And Moyer yells, ‘No, thank you!’”
“In the West Wing, Mr. Obama is a bit of a wanderer. When Mr. Bush wanted to see a member of his staff, the aide was summoned to the Oval Office. But Mr. Obama tends to roam the halls; one day last week, he turned up in the office of his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, who was in the unfortunate position of having his feet up on the desk when the boss walked in.” I love these little details, the behind the scenes stuff. Then again, The West Wing is my favorite show to ever air on television.
Beautiful.
Great explanation of the yellow line that’s placed on the field to indicate where a team needs to get to get a first down. I’d have to agree that the yellow line is probably my single favorite addition to football coverage.
“A promotional video for maptype.com.” One of my favorite uses of tilt-shift yet.
Absolutely love this retro one. I need to try and see if I can meet up with him the next time I’m down in Portland.
“Colors takes Apple’s basic color chooser (complete with “magnifying glass” to pull colors from other applications), and combines it with an easy way to copy common formats of color values (eg., #rrggbb, rgba(r, g, b, a), etc.) to the clipboard.” It’s a little ways down the page (I couldn’t find a more direct link) but it’s great (and free). I’ve wanted something simple like this for years, since I’ve been using the digital color meter because it’s packaged with OS X and fairly simple. The only problem was that I’d have to remember the hex value for Photoshop. Which, while a nice little memory game, gets old fast. Simple, lightweight, beautiful and dead simple.
“Traces the changing technology of picture making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies.” One more reason I need to get out to NYC before June.
Damn. Sold. Love the lines and the typography and nostalgia factor of something similar my grandfather has.
Some great motion graphics using almost exclusively text. Love the treatment they do with “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day”.
This just makes me smile, big.
Love the way this is put together and the responses, but would have loved a bit less trying get them in focus.
A nice little article in the New York Times talking about The Impossible Project.
The Bad Things are going to be playing at the Tractor down in Ballard tonight, and this blog kindly asked if they could use my photo from when I saw them play at Nectar in the fall. If you haven’t had a chance to see them and up for a show tonight, don’t miss ‘em! Great stuff!
A really nicely redesigned personal site for Jackson Wilkinson. He’s beta testing and using Savoy, the Django project Jeff create, I’ve contributed too, and the “magic” behind T Incorporated.
Love this.
Been waiting for this since watching it yesterday. As usual, The Big Picture does it right.
I’m a bit late on this, but it’s yet another fantastic interactive graphic from the New York Times showing the water landing of flight 1549.
One of my favorite fonts just got some goodness.
What an “N”!
Some kind words and good points from Keith about how our 97 Bottles project became a reality.
Some kind words from Jeremy on our recently launched public beta, 97 Bottles, where you can review, recommend, and learn about beer.
“We live in a country that seems to be in this massive state of delusion, where the idea of what you are is more important than you actually being that. And it actually works just as long as everybody’s winking at the same time. If one person stops winking, you just beat the crap out of that person, and they either starting winking or go somewhere else.” Stop winking.
“Official website of the Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. The catalogue is a projected seven-volume series of books that will document the entire painting corpus of the artist from 1958 to the present.” Inspiring, inspiring stuff.
“One of the world’s longest exposures ever. For 6 months between the winter and summer solstice, Justin Quinnell left open his homemade pinhole camera. The lowest arc shows the first day of exposure on the winter solstice, the top curves were captured in the middle of summer.” 6 months!
It sure is good looking and I really like what they did with that large image in the background web design wise, but we’ll see about the price and speed in a few months when it’s actually shipping. Oh, and I doubt I’ll be switching to Sprint anytime soon either.
“The only way to get warmer during a season of sloth is to be active.”
Dieline “the leading package design website” used my photo for the new Tropicana Orange Juice packaging in their latest blog post. I’m just thankful they asked for permission instead of just yanking it from my Flickr stream.
Great advice from Ryan Singer describing what he calls “Domain Languages”.
Can’t. Wait.
Not sure why I’ve never heard this before, but I love it. I might have to just buy at least one roll before it goes away completely…
Not sure why I’ve never heard this before, but I love it. I might have to just buy at least one roll before it goes away completely…
Garrett linked up one of my more popular photos for his new side project “Prettify” which is a collection of “nice icons and wallpapers for the discerning individual”. Looks to be “pretty” great.
My friend Morgan is now blogging over at Popten, and her latest entry features some of my photos turned into cover art for her list. I’ve met few people in my life as passionate about music as her, so I have almost no doubt she’ll be a success.
Add this to my list of things I’d like to learn in ‘09. Looks like a great resource.
