Soul shirt.
If I could have one t-shirt to wear to the inauguration tomorrow, this would be it! From the New York Times slideshow, "So Much More Than T-Shirts".
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On Whisky-Centered Design: Designing the Glencairn Whisky Glass
TASTING whiskies can be a clinical, prosaic task, nosing and assessing, jotting notes, reconsidering, lips compressed in concentration, brow furrowed. Yet, as the spirits panel tasted 20 single malts from Islay, we reminded ourselves to step back a moment, to contemplate with no small amount of awe the magic of
An Interaction Designer's Thanksgiving.
Things we should be thankful for. From Dan Saffer.
On Kant, aesthetics, and consumption.
I’ve been bantering back and forth with designers about aesthetics in design, via this fascinating discussion. Someone suggested that if aesthetics is so important (which it is), then design students should study the philosophical origins of aesthetics. I completely agree (why isn’t this already a given in design
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.
Urban interaction.
In my ongoing thinking about the city as an interface – as an operating system, if you will, of this thing we call Earth – I picked up a book I bought while in grad school: Universal Principles of Design. It lists a multitude of various design elements and principles to consider
Modeled after Paris.
It wasn’t until after we’d walked past the mall that a friend we were having dinner with told us that DC was modeled after Paris. I had just remarked to Will and Michaela on our way to the restaurant that the view of the Washington Monument from that
Talk to me.
In contemplating the aesthetics of interaction design, beauty as defined by all five senses must be considered: Seeing, Hearing, Touching, Tasting, Smelling. And, I’m going to make that six senses by adding one more: Emoting. By which I mean a person’s psychological state in response to an interaction
I am a gastronomist.
gas•tron•o•my – n. the practice or art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food.
Icelandic chocolate from Whole Foods. I like the packaging, too.
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