I touched one.
I held an iPhone last night. It was so sexy I almost wanted to lick it.
Pictures and video don’t do it justice.
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Designer Weims. Again.
This time for Getty Images. These two could soooooo be Oslo + Mies. The one in the background would be Mies. Totally.
Fixie Chicks.
This is my friend Jessica’s fixed-gear bicycle. I’ve been thinking a lot about getting – maybe even building – one of these bikes lately. I’ve always wanted a really lightweight bike and because these have so few moving parts, they don’t weigh much. I’ve also read lots
Technology + Design making a difference.
More about the genocide in Darfur, as promised. I just came across this website by Amnesty International. An incredibly powerful use of design and visual communication to inform people of what goes on outside our comfortable, capitalistic bubble. And what they can do to make a difference.
Amnesty International has
Sometimes I wonder what the heck I'm doing....
designing software applications for rich white people when I should be devoting my life to stuff like this. An excerpt:
The world’s cleverest designers, said Dr. Polak, a former
psychiatrist who now runs an organization helping poor farmers become
entrepreneurs, cater to the globe’s richest 10 percent, creating
What's wrong with passion?
An excerpt from my fave grad school professor’s latest Metropolis article:
Passion is not enthusiasm. It is not love. It is not enjoyment, and it
is not flow. Passion is an unstoppable overflowing of emotion that
destroys in its satisfaction, that torpedoes lives and marriages and
nations, that shoots
Why I love technology....
originally uploaded by Neylano.
and like being an interaction designer. Cool products like Skype are going to make this year apart much more bearable.
Design mixing with Blend.
Okay, so you all know how I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft products, but I have to give them a hand on this one. I started learning their new software program, Blend, last week. It’s like Illustrator, Flash, AfterEffects, and…well…maybe VisualBasic (except that it writes
Digital Ethnography: The Democratization of Grief.
I’ve been fascinated by the news coming out of Virginia about the mass murder there. While viewing profiles of the victims on the New York Times online, I noticed that they are listing links to the Myspace and/or Facebook pages of the deceased.
It’s downright eerie – macabre
Very clever.
An experimental interface of sorts. But actually pretty lo-tech.