January 2008
51 posts
SVA MFA Designer As Author: Paul Rand Lecture... →
Steven Heller lectures on design history. (via kosmar)
Thinking for a Living →
via YouWorkForThem
Talking About AT&T's Internet Filtering on AT&T's... →
go joel
WatchGoodie Bag :: Trajan is the Movie Font Also: Woody Allen’s typography (via pogo)
A President Like My Father (NYT) →
Caroline Kennedy endorsement of Obama: “I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it.”
WatchGame Mod was a six hour long workshop with the objective of showing the participants that it is not required to understand code to experiment and play with it. (via banksean)
City Planet by Stewart Brand (PDF) →
The Illustrated President →
via jacob
Ask E.T.: Interface design and the iPhone →
Edward Tufte
WatchThe Steampunk Home: Steampunk Treehouse Tour
Wii Fit Sits Still →
Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's... →
“They ripped for two months.”
Marshall Mcluhan Playing Cards - a photoset on... →
via banksean
FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS →
A promise to answer “How radically is the Internet transforming the experience of childhood?” but mostly a focus on the perennial “What are our kids doing when we’re not looking?”
Game Console Power Consumption →
An Update on the Trial of Bilal Hussein →
The AP photographer the Pentagon is illegally prosecuting in Iraq
The Proppian Fairy Tale Generator →
An experiment in electronic (re)writing and an exploration of the retranslation of modernist theory within the electronic environment. (via majcher)
My Tiny Life →
“Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life remains, to this day, the best book written about what it is like to live immersed in a virtual world.”
Google’s Lunchtime Betting Game →
“Information is shared most easily and effectively among office neighbors, even at an Internet company where instant messaging and e-mail are generally preferred to face-to-face discussion.” (NYT)
Ciclovia: Bogotá, Colombia →
Weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic (StreetFilms)
When Veterans Fight the War Within →
“When you really can’t decide if this is something your users will need someday,...”
– DreamHost Blog » Um, Whoops.
Ace Jet 170 →
Found type, print, and stuff
When Genius Bombs →
Achenblog - washingtonpost
Weza - Step Powered Portable Energy →
Trends in Google Checkout →
Mrmr →
iPhone + 10.5 + Quartz Composer = Wireless VJ Nirvana (via bug)
Will the Real Ernst Bettler Please Stand Up? →
In the late 50s, Swiss designer Ernst Bettler created a series of seemingly harmless posters that brought down a drug company with a Nazi past. It’s a great story, but it never happened. Why do we need to believe in Ernst Bettler? (Design Observer)
Inquisitor raises some questions →
(TUAW)
Becoming Cary Grant →
via pogo
An Eschatological Taxonomy →
J Cascio
Hands-on with Virgin America's RED in-flight... →
