This blog will be on a brief hiatus while its author (me) ties the knot and then recovers from all the fun on a short trip. Thanks for reading and check back the week of July 26 for some new posts! Until then...
Navigate With Your Ears
Take an audio tour of New Orleans via the Open Sound project. Residents have recorded various sound clips that capture a particular niche of the city???with the help of project directors Heather Booth and Jacob Brancasi??? and upload them to an intera...
Scan and Print in 3D
via popularmechanics.com This video from the Popular Mechanics site demos some incredible technology. At about 2:35 in watch the 3-D printer produce a single piece in one session with individually functioning parts.
Stock Within Reach
Yesterday the high end furniture store (with the misleadingly plebeian name) Design Within Reach filed with the SEC to delist its stock from NASDAQ. According to the store's blog, this was a smart way for management to cut spending (by eliminating...
All About the Rock
During my daily Internet & Facebook time, I discovered this fab poster Maggie Fost, a fellow CCA alumna, designed for Merge Records.Subsequent browsing led to this trailer: Cue (indie) rock art induced head explosion!
The Uniform Project
I got an email from a style savvy friend this weekend about The Uniform Project, an inspiring sustainable fashion exercise cum fundraiser started by Sheena Matheiken. In May Matheiken began a year-long stint of wearing the same versatile, reversib...
Water, Water Everywhere
via korwater.com The options for reusable bottles have come a long way since the glory days of the classic Nalgene. Case in point these new BPA-free bottles from Kor, which feature snap-top lids, a smooth, thread-free drinking spout and transparen...
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My favorite financial blog, Planet Money, posted a story yesterday on the IMF's decision to issue a massive amount of bonds as a way to generate cash in our current non-liquid global economy. The bonds will be issued in Special Drawing Rights (SDR...
No Thanks
via tweetmybumper.com If you have a Twitter account and enjoy the counterproductive LAPD bumper stickers that say "Keep your eyes on the road," check out Tweet My Bumper. The site does have a catchy tagline: Follow me in traffic. Follow me on twit...
Coming Soon...
... to a parking lot near you: Carspaze! This company recently installed a large scale ad campaign inside the garage of a mall here in LA, thanks to its development of fire retardant materials which meet strict fire code standards. This one, for J...
Arco-graphy
While at a red light recently, my passenger and I got in a heated discussion about whether this billboard...I'll admit I was wrong. I still standby my initial argument that if you're going to tilt type, go big or go home. On the other hand, the fa...
Michael Jackson: Patent Holder
via mediabistro.com I always wondered how the late Michael Jackson could lean like this. Turns out he is one of three inventors listed on a 1993 patent issued for loafers fitted with a special heel that hooks into the floor, allowing the wearer to...
Sneak Peak: Martin Venezky mugs for SFMOMA
San Francisco designer Martin Venezky and his Appetite Engineers designed a set of 4 mugs (3 pictured below) for the SFMOMA store. The mugs willl be available for purchase through the store website later this week. Since the designs have already c...
Maira Kalman, The Elements of Style: The Movie
via mairakalman.com I was going to do a post on Maira Kalman's funny, poignant and charming illustrated book, "The Principles of Uncertainty," when I discovered this film on her website. Its an adaptation of the illustrations Kalman made for a ver...
Biggest Recycled Artwork EVER
via thepostfamily.com Robert Bradford recreated a 1950's Coke ad with crushed soda cans. Happy National Recycling Week, United Kingdomers!
Droog short a founder
Gijs Bakker, of Droog Design has resigned as board member of the Droog Design Foundation, citing irreconcilable differences with his co-founder Renny Ramakers. Apparently Bakker feels his focus on the "creativity and originality of Droog Design pr...
Head to Toe
via designmuseum.org The interactive installation "Head to Toe" is part of the current exhibition Super Contemporary, up now at London's Design Museum, one of my favorites. The artist, Ross Phillips, installed four pods around London that take cli...
On-going: Visualizing Information
via alexandercheek.com This is information designer Alexander Cheek's thesis project, "No Roads," which I discovered on the web a few years back. He stripped a map of New England of the usual suspects, such as roads, parks, etc, and overlaid other...
NYT Magazine Shrinks and Gets a Makeover
via nytimes.com The New York Times Magazine revealed a size reduction and subsequent redesign this weekend. Basic rundown: * Cropped by 9%. * The Times commissioned a new typeface, Lyon Text, by typographers Kai Bernau and Christian Schwartz to ma...
Poladroid
Polaroid Puritans will probably shake their developing Polaroids in disgust at Poladroid, but as an amateur digital photographer, I think it's pretty cool. After a quick download and install, drag and drop your photos onto the application's camera...