December 2011
7 posts
“Flour’s been around for 10,000 years, and was one of — if not the first — plant...”
– Flour (via Kaufmann Mercantile Blog)
Great primer on the history and application tips for various types of flour.
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The New Spoke & Wheel Approach
Twelve days ago the Walker Art Center launched their new website and the response from the cultural community has been nothing but positive. Their approach was to ignore the static standard exhibition and collection focused approach that has in the past only served to highlight the disconnect between curatorial, education and communication departments - that designers have tried to cover up with...
“What this means is that ripening must then be artificially induced, in a...”
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Spaces of Banana Control (via Edible Geography)
“Earlier and more concrete evidence of the making and use of felt dates to...”
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Felt (via Kaufmann Mercantile)
Taggie - The Educational Grocery Shopping App by... →
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WatchGreat talk that I caught a few months later at Cooper Union, while directly relevant to the challenges facing web designers interested in typography - the real story for me in the design system that allows for agency of both concept and form within the same product. Simply brilliant!
(If the embedded clip doesn’t work, watch it here).
June 2011
4 posts
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Prompt 2: Today by Liz Danzico
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays. How would you describe today using only one sentence? Tell...
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Prompt 1: Gwen Bell – 15 Minutes to Live
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear. It something isn’t it. It gets you in all the right places and manages to seep into all the wrong ones. Evolutionarily speaking, fear is a tool. It is the reason that our species has survived. Our brains adapted due to fear, our...
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Self-Reliance, I has it.
Or more correctly, my mother has it and has allowed me the benefit of basking in her glow. She is an incredibly gifted, social media oriented and generally interesting person who called me this morning in a supportive push to get me to join her in completing a 30-day writing challenge. The Domino Project’s blog-a-thon, Self-Reliance (#trust30) is inspired by the 208’s birthday of...
October 2010
1 post
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The New York City Sub-Culinary Map →
via Edible Geography
September 2010
2 posts
WatchThe first half of this film explores the design world that I thought I was getting into when I was eighteen, one of drawings, critique, client interviews, research and best of all - model making!
August 2010
10 posts
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“Take a moment to consider the space around you: There is scent everywhere, from...”
– The Benefits of Scenting Public Places - GOOD
An excerpt from a response piece I wrote for GOOD exploring the role of scent in public spaces.
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"The Best Magazine Articles Ever" (via KK*) →
Here is a list of links to some well regarded articles formerly published in publications like Esquire, Wired, Gourmet, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic and Outside… it includes some real ground breakers such as Rachel Carson’s original “Silent Spring” piece for The New Yorker in 1962, and Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” in the 1964 edition of...
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Concrete Proof (new blog that is worth a gander) →
sweetfineday » art on governors island →
Um, weekend trip to Governors Island has been added to my todo list!!
An Atmosphere Excavated by John Becker,... →
First design writing was free on Design Observer,... →
Exclusive: Frog Design Wants YOU, for Experimental Research | Co.Design
Today, Frog Design is opening the doors on a clever new form of design research: FrogMob, a website that presents open challenges—How do people tuck away power cords? How are bikes adapted for workplaces?—and allows anyone to submit pictures and stories about brilliant, everyday ideas they’ve encountered in...
Paleoblogging (via SwissMiss) →
“Like paleontologists, paleobiologists, and paleoarcheologists, Paleobloggers dig up blogworthy material from the past to see what makes it tick. But instead of our prehistorical past, paleoblogging focuses on our analog past, blending in somewhere in the mid-1960s.”
Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design –... →
July 2010
22 posts
The Windowfarms Project →
Get a kit for your window!
Why Designers Should Declare Death to the Post-It... →
Queens County Farm Museum →
Video Podcast - NYTimes Multimedia Storytelling... →
“How the information is manifested – through diagrams, charts, or interactive media – is up to them, though we’ve grown to trust their authority on all stories, from the sensitive (9/11) to the scientific (a perfect triple axel at the Olympics). In Gestalten.tv’s latest podcast, we speak with Duenes and graphics editor Archie Tse on location in their New York headquarters to...
Terms & Conditions →
I have a crush on this communication design studio…
Urban Images: An International Sumposium at Oslo... →
The Urban Images symposium brings together an internationally renowned group of artists and scholars for a two-day program in order to discuss the field of artistic film and video related to architecture and urban space. The objective of the symposium is to expand theoretical concepts and artistic tools for understanding the inherent qualities of moving images and its relationship to urban...
“Rumor has it that Thomas Edison (progenitor of the 99% namesake) would sleep...”
– What We Can Learn from Babies: Experimentation, Failure & Creative Genius :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
…maybe why you feel most productive when you wake up at 4am?
Nightmare in Apartment 9B - A Bleak Family Drama -... →
Design Notebook - Peter Buchanan-Smith’s Ax Is a... →
Information Graphics Translated to Built... →
Sukkah City: NYC 2010 →
I write like David Foster Wallace →
Uh, oh!!!
(via I Write Like)
25 Stylish Sneakers (Refinery29) →
The shiny-green Goliath sneakers with purple laces caught my eye… but I’m sure someone, somewhere, has already sent this your way.
How to Lose a Legacy by Ellen Lupton- NYTimes.com →
Tools Made in Prison →
Brick Lane Roll-Up Pannier Bags →
Comedy at the Knitting Factory (Free, Sunday @... →
[UPDATE] Watch Out for That Tunnel Boring Machine!... →
“Accident | Units Operating With A Subway Boring Machine That Accidently Bored Through 2nd Avenue And Collapsed A Verizon MANHOLE. All Utilities Requested To Respond And Check For Further DAMAGE. Road Closures In EFFECT.”
Colours In Cultures →
A Series of Rather Beautiful Views on the... →
Institute of Decision Making at Draftfcb - sounds... →
A Quest to Learn What Drives Consumer Decisions
By STUART ELLIOTT
“As Madison Avenue focuses more intently on trying to influence consumer behavior, one of the world’s largest agencies is starting a unit that will tap into research from academics in the field as well as the work of its own employees.”
June 2010
1 post
Alexandra DAISY Ginsberg →
May 2010
21 posts
The Museum of Natural History Rewrites It in a... →
mobile storytelling platform →
bathroom jealousy!!!!! →