January 2010
71 posts
andrea übelacker →
Twitpic - "N_train_gossip" →
A vigilante after your own heart… posting pictures of those who infringe upon common decency while riding the MTA.
Short Hairstyles and Haircuts, Ideas and Pictures... →
(too many times articles? oh well, here's... →
study offers insight into the color of dinosaurs →
this had to have been someone’s thesis topic at some point, no?
OMG - do you think anyone in nyc sells these??? →
Design Your Own - Keds →
This and adobe illustrator could eat an entire Sunday afternoon.
fear & trembling vladmaster →
I really like this idea of analog image/sound storytelling… (read more)
Nicelle Beauchene →
helen britton →
Design for Social Good →
I came across this site via one of the designers on the project, but found it interesting that their team is made up in a large part by writers and people with journalistic experience.
The Print Center, Philadelphia →
Trade School — website/calendar →
Skin: a natural history →
chumby →
Web Seer →
Um, please try this…
personalDNA Report (benevolent creator) →
WNYC - Radiolab » Animal Minds →
[article] Frieze Magazine | " Spirit Guide" by Dan... →
Emily Pilloton | January 18, 2010 | Colbert Report →
Grammar as Science - The MIT Press →
[mix] Feeling Good, Looking Up →
Here’s the link to today’s mix for future ref…
Wallet - Keys - Phone →
artwork by Steve Lambert
Kitsune Noir Mixcast No.020 →
MoMA | Ernesto Neto: Navedenga →
[article] Devising the stove that could save the... →
Burkhard Bilger, Annals of Invention, “Hearth Surgery,” The New Yorker, December 21, 2009, p. 84
This is the article that Mike Burton mentioned a few weeks back - you should read it, in a many ways it is about the idea of implementation that we were discussing this morning. xoxo!
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/12/21/091221fa_fact_bilger#ixzz0ctuGE3C9
Flickr: Be My Valentine: A Studio 360 Design... →
Be My Valentine: A Studio 360 Design Challenge
The Rosshaar Mattress by Daniel Heer (via Sight... →
Wow, this is an amazingly beautiful object - I think I may have a new goal in life… get to a place where spending 2,000€ on a mattress that I’ll keep for the rest of my life makes sense. Serious object envy, yikes.
Ombre hair dying →
Exactitudes® →
Laughable predictions from Metropolis
What’s Next: Retail
Posted January 13, 2010
Shopping as we know it is dead. Unsightly malls and big-box inefficiencies are giving way to a more sophisticated kind of retail as families and retirees increasingly trade the suburbs for city life, and digital tools seamlessly insinuate themselves into our daily rituals. “The world of retail is going to change more in the next ten years than it has...
Sensuous Aesthetics of Design in the 21st...
It is possibly too soon to call, Kenya Hara’s monograph, Designing Design1 (Lars Muller, 2007) a seminal contribution to the canon of design book publishing as a AAwhole; however it is without reservation that I hold this book up as one of the most convincing arguments for the gesamtkunstwerk approach to contemporary design practice (and yes, that includes writing). What Hara achieves in the...
UPPERCASE - Issue 3, Fall 2009 →
I wanted this to be better than it is… I mean I haven’t read it yet, but something isn’t quite right - it’s a little too cute or something.
Creative Review - XX: A Sculpture of an Album →
GOOD is Slow →
“[Book Review] Wake Up and Smell the Zeitgeist - BusinessWeek”
– Chief Culture Officer by Grant McCracken
“At present, says McCracken, most companies do a lousy job of sensing cultural currents. That’s because they tend to concentrate on what he calls “fast culture,” the kind tracked by cool-hunting, whether it’s the latest Italian...