Fitting
Charles Brannock only invented one thing in his life: that metal thing in shoe stores that the salesman uses to measure your feet. Is it the most perfect invention of the 20th century?
Adobe Posts DNG Update as well as DNG Codec for Vista
On the Lightroom Journal blog, Tom Hogarty announced that the DNG Specification has been updated. He also indicated that the DNG Codec for Windows Vista (32-bit) has been posted to Adobe Labs. He said: “This update addresses several industry requirements for the DNG format including the formalization of the concept of a “camera profile” and a metadata tag to validate your image data. The definition of a camera profile for the DNG format as well as the allowance for multiple camera [...]
Wings & Horns
Wings & Horns, W H, Spruce — no matter what that Canadian company decides to call itself, rest assured they’re committed to quality and forward-thinking designs and cuts. Their hoodies are legendary on men’s streetwear fashion forums, with their parent company producing the ubiquitous hipster item for all the major street labels. Now Wings & Horns are expanding their market with a focus on footwear. Handcrafted in Italy, the white kicks are a hybrid of multiple designs. You can clearly [...]
A Beautiful Revolution
I just came back from a trip into the mind of Andre Jordan. It was a weird and wonderful place. If you would like to take the journey for yourself check out his doodle blog, and my other favorite part of his website, the Ordinary Love Stories.
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Three Minds @ Organic |
1 hour ago
These Brands Build Community "All we do is try to respond to what users are asking for," he said. "That's how we set our priorities. Users aren't asking us to run ads, so it doesn't come onto our radar." Social-networking sites work to turn users into profits Google commands a sizable chunk of the market — especially in the USA — leaving dozens of social-networking sites to scramble for a piece of the advertising pie. Plus, there is the ticklish [...]
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On knowledge workers & conversation by David Weinberger (Gurteen Knowledge) "Here's a definition of that pesky and borderline elitist phrase, 'knowledge worker'. A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations at work." Google Spreadsheets Function List Documentation "he following is a list of all the supported functions within each major category." Google Friend Connect http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20080512_friend_connect.html Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One - ReadWriteWeb creation (Wikipedia); prediction [...]
A Little Columbarium Forest in the Arctic
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2 hours ago
Alas, the auction for the Point No Point Lighthouse has been cancelled. Something about safety requirements of the U.S. Navy.However, there are some alternatives, for instance, this flippin' ship.(The FLIP ship in the process of re-organizing its spatial profile. Photos courtesy of the U.S. Navy. Source.)Known formally as the R/P FLIP, it's a mobile research station used by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography principally to “study how sound waves behave under water” but during its 40 years of operation has also [...]
Footer Showcase
75 examples of creative and engaging web site footer design.
JONATHAN IVE'S LATEST DESIGN JOB YOU'LL HAVE TO SEE TO BELIEVE
A Scanner Darkly |
3 hours ago
* That's right the picture above is intended for this entry because CNN/Fortune are reporting that the designer behind Eve, the female robot/co-star in Pixar's upcoming blockbuster, Wall·E, is no other than Jonathan Ive. [I know!! I bet you just said OMG! as I did the first time I heard it] To be fair he was only part of the design process but it is one of this little facts that my geeky brain is always dying to know."Wall·E director Andrew [...]
An insane wall-painted animation
DesignNotes |
3 hours ago
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. While you might not know the great blog http://eatingsandwiches.com/ just yet, friend Jody Sugrue has been on fire with great commentary on design. Her latest find comes via Buenos Aires with some unbelievable stop motion animation that took a couple months to put together by the artist BLU. Be sure to watch the video with the sound cranked up. There’s also a great site to explore more stuff at http://blublu.org/ [...]
Sagmeister Round Table
Stefan doesn't care about kerning!! Yup. You heard it here first. We were up close n personal with the king of graphic design. Here are a few choice, albeit paraphrased, sound bites from Sagmeister's round table discussion at Gravity Free: Sag on Pencils vs Illustrator: Young designers today are as skilled on Illustrator as I am with a pencil. It's a tool. So fine, treat it as a tool, but not as a solution. Sag on sabbaticals: Gaps are a [...]
Gravity Free 2008: Session 2
The afternoon of Day 1 at Gravity Free was filled with inspirational presentations from architect Michelle Kaufman, milliner Rod Kennnan and the guru himself, Stefan Sagmeister. Focusing on a design-build strategy, Michelle Kaufman presented her modular pre-fab green homes. The factory-made homes are designed for clean living and built in a factory using the most efficient and environmentally friendly materials possible. Details like tiles made of recycled Chardonnay bottles (yes -- now you can drink and save the world!) and [...]
I say "Adobe," you say...
...what, exactly? That's what Noah Brier's fun Brand Tags project asks, and here's what people have said so far. It's kind of fun to read the small print, too: "arcane awesome bastards... stucco structure... techy teepee telefónica terrorists..." (Too bad Adobe doesn't make people think "hot cyclone action," like Dyson does.) You can play your own word association game on the main page, and you can go backwards, playing name that brand based on what people say. [Via Mark Baltzegar]
Rockin' Rocking Sheep
Fluffy Sheep! I'm gearing up for Design Week in NY... and somehow have gotten backlogged enough with everything other than posting... anyhow, i digress... Fluffy Sheep! I first fell giddily in love with these at the Danish Crafts space at ICFF last year - and just noticed that this year they are launching in hot pink and black (and also an unpictured brown and grey)... these are designed by Povl Kjær, more pictures and the story behind the sheep on the [...]
101 Color Resources for Web Designers
There's nothing better than a comprehensive list when you're looking for a specific resource, like color resources. So here's a great offering from Jimmy Atkinson, the editor of WHDb. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)
links for 2008-05-13
Domestic sell all kinds of weird and awesome vynil stickers and stuff to put on walls I think we're going to try and get some of these for the Brickhouse office to design it up a bit. The more it feels like a teenager's bedroom, the more creative we'll be. (tags: design designers vynil)
Big Train: Child on Bike “It was the best you’ve...
Big Train: Child on Bike “It was the best you’ve done so far.”
Good Client Relationships Enable Good Design
Alexa, Teresa and I recently finished a project that, from the beginning, had all the signs of trouble: a busy client team working weekends on other projects, an aggressive schedule, a tight budget and my own pre-planned vacation during the critical architecture phase. While this project had a lot of challenges, and was quite intense at times, we had fun and came up with some really well executed designs that we all love. The project ended with a very satisfied client team, [...]
Computerlove Rare Products
Discover the first set of Limited Edition Computerlove tees. Designed by Edvard Scott exclusively for Cpluv, and Syn (one of the winner of the TDC 2007). Printed on American Apparel shirts with a Screen Print (serigraphy) technique. Only 100 items available. Order and details here: Edvard Scott for Computerlove Blue short sleeve Empty Quote Dark grey short sleeve
New "Digital Arts" Festival Fuses Art and Technology
Florida beach resort town will host a unique festival on Labor Day weekend. "Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach" was created to celebrate and promote the world's most talented and innovative digital artists. But the event has a very unusual twist. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)
Mountain Monuments
BLDGBLOG |
5 hours ago
[Image: From the series the water, the dams, the landscape by photographer Eduoard Decam].Eduoard Decam is a Barcelona-based French architect whose photographic project the water, the dams, the landscape won an EDF Foundation award back in 2006. The images in the series document massive hydrological installations in the Pyrenees Mountains of northeastern Spain, turning dams and spillways into abstract monuments, like some new piece of mountain infrastructure designed by Superstudio. As Decam himself explained to A10 magazine: "I do not see [...]
SXSW Slidecast: 10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment
I pulled together a slidecast, with audio, of “10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment.” Bryan Mason and I gave this talk at SXSW 2008 Interactive. I’ve already described the talk here (we gave a version of it at Web 2.0 Expo SF in April) but the SXSW folks recently made the audio available. Share This
Your questions answered #2
A few weeks back I asked if there were any questions you’d like me to answer, and addressed them in a ‘Your questions answered’ blog post. You kindly asked additional questions, so here we go with three more. Kristen (of kristarella.com) asked: Do you still figure out your prices approximately by the hour? Given that you’ve had a lot of practice you may know how long something might take? Where logo design projects are concerned, I’ve carried out enough to [...]
