From the 52 paintings, which date between 1000 and 2000 A.D., the sizes of loaves of bread, main dishes and plates were calculated with the aid of a computer program that could scan the items and rotate them in a way that allowed them to be measured. To account for different proportions in paintings, the sizes of the food were compared to the sizes of the human heads in the paintings.

The researchers' analysis showed that portion sizes of main courses (usually eel, lamb and pork) depicted in the paintings grew by 69 percent over time, while plate size grew by 66 percent and bread size grew by 23 percent.

Both Wansinks suggest that as food has become more available over the last millennium, the way people, including artists, view and depict food has changed accordingly, with the same dinner scene being viewed as having more on the table in more recent decades and centuries.

"In Melbourne I developed a way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark. The distorted letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. This project won several international design awards."

So you know how some of you have xboxes? If you do, get this. Feel it, don't think.

Dude designed the django admin interface.

"Virgin hotel beds. These are from my last tour, in suppport of the paperback of Pattern Recognition. More a mini-tour."

"My name is Craig Hockenberry and furbo.org is my place to write for the web."

"Free comic characters and scenes you can use to develop great product designs."

britta sez: "it is hard to resist a fight between a tyrannosaurus rex, a sperm whale, and a pink squid." There has to be a rock-paper-scissors variant embedded in here someplace.

U-M Library's Scholarly Publishing office sez: All you wounded! Those of you who can! Pick yourselves off the ground! Hurry back, tell your leader you'll need more men! SEND ME THE BEST YOU GOT SEND ME YOUR STRONGEST MACHINES

thedaniel sez: "$20 monocular hmd, bw, 320x240, ntsc"

"On-going project to collect and organize envelope security patterns from around the world." 30gmz writes: "a collection of things can be infinitely more beautiful than the individual items."

"Abandoned housing project, Taiwan." Set 2 of 2.

"Abandoned housing project, Taiwan." Set 1 of 2.

Saw some pretty awesome footage of this today

(very cool)

I have the book, super highly recommended -- the writing is crap, but it's hard to argue with the artwork :)

"If your lungs and stomach start talking, stand with your arms akimbo until they stop."

The 'daily index card' format.

Defunct donut chain with an amazing logo.

Kind of overdone visuals -- but I can think of a few processes that would benefit from this kind of display.

Wow, not too easy to find an online version of the whole thing + illustrations.

"Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made." This stuff looks like Villa Straylight.

Vector-traced versions of critical arcade art including instruction cards, control overlays, etc.

"In Detroit, the downtown fist sculpture was defaced with spray paint a few months ago, reminding the citizenry of its continuing ambiguities."

...in (view changes) mode.

"Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript." Another piece of OmniWeb functionality implemented by Firefox - cool!

Visual depictions of software development.

Cute javascript fades, swoops, and etc.

Macular degeneration.

Charles Bonnet Syndrome.

No new techniques; a nice one-document reference.

I've been out of touch! The Gaiman / McKean film opens in wide release this weekend (!).

Great arcade of little freebie OS X games with excellent visual and audio design. psy-no and Torus Trooper are probably my favorites of the lot.

NY Times article from 1996 about Susan Kare's Macintosh work.

I've been using this all day, so far I'm quite pleased and have had no huge problems. Some minor visual cues are a bit off, but perhaps that's just life.