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One of the stupidest things I've ever seen.

I was just browsing through the new Pottery Barn catalog and came across this image. It’s nice enough, aesthetically, of course. The furniture is nice, the colors are soft and beautiful. But take a closer look at the books on the shelves behind the bed. At first I thought

The Art of the Title Sequence.

I just found this really cool website, via A Very Short List: The Art of the Title Sequence. An archive of title sequence design. Yummy.

Nasty Golden Retrievers and the MFA.

I love that I get home before Will sometimes now that I no longer spend three hours a day on the goddamn train. It means I get first look at notes left by our dogwalker, Matt. Thanks, Guys! We ran into a nasty golden retriever I’m not fond of

I design, therefore I cook.

One of the things I really love about cooking is the design of culinary tools. In my honest opinion, the Kitchen Aid stand mixer deserves a place at MoMA. It’s a design classic, an icon of American design and mechanical engineering. Consequently, I find excuses to spend money at

Tuesday, January 13. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

Design is about constraints. Technical constraints, physical constraints, financial constraints, political constraints. We are at the stage in our home design where constraints are converging from many angles. The shoes I’ve worn to meet the architect lately haven’t been worn to meet the architect. They’ve been worn

If NPR were a typeface....

Today we had another presentation of design iterations for the new NPR.org. Well, it was actually just for the new NPR.org homepage. The rest of the site templates will be worked out later. We're working on getting the homepage nailed down first. And trust me when

Bad Chocolate.

From the NY Times (full article): Heavily Hyped Cell Phone Won’t Make You a Chocoholic By DAVID POGUE Published: August 24, 2006 Chocolate, under the proper circumstances, can be a deeply satisfying treat for the senses. It can also be a sticky mess. Unfortunately, the heavily hyped Chocolate music

On artificial intelligence, gerbils, and The Lion King.

Photo via www.disney.co.uk I saw The Lion King on Broadway this weekend and I can’t stop thinking about it. Namely in terms of artificial intelligence. Because just the day before, I listened to this podcast on RadioLab about human-computer interaction: Talking To Machines. In the segment

Humvee for the disabled?

Hmmmm. Gotta love it, I guess.

Is the new iPhone video sexist?

Disclaimer: This is my blog and I’ll bitch and whine if I want to. I watched the new iPhone video last for the first time last week and paused for a moment after it ended, wondering if there were any women on the team that built it. “Where are