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Warren Ellis » Travelling, African Dictator Style
"And that’s one of the problems with crazy sci-fi design in the real world: it never belongs to the people you want it to belong to, and it carries a completely different and sinister statement about who owns the future. Versace doing SPACE:1999 set design. It should have been Freeman Dyson’s ride."
funny:geeky  design  science_fiction  ellis.warren 
october 2010 by cshalizi
The armchairs had gathered to warn her. But alas,...
"The armchairs had gathered to warn her. But alas, the ferns were already in formation." (I'm sorry, but that room looks awesome.)
funny:malicious  photos  design  architecture  unhappy_hipsters 
may 2010 by cshalizi
Blanka || Iconic TV
Covers of recent popular TV shows, if they were old Pelican paperbacks. Many of them are very nice.
funny  popular_culture  design  via:unfogged 
may 2010 by cshalizi
One obstacle he hadn’t considered during...
"One obstacle he hadn’t considered during construction: How difficult it would be to convince a one-night-stand he wasn’t plotting to kidnap and kill"
funny:malicious  architecture  design  photos  unhappy_hipsters 
april 2010 by cshalizi
Rhubarb Pie: The county admin building is no better. Why?
"That's where the Antlers of Perfect Justice drink your blood when the jury reaches the inevitable "guilty" verdict and the judge casts you out the window. I'm surprised it wasn't flowing red when I snapped that shot. Too early in the day, I guess."
funny  architecture  design  photos 
february 2010 by cshalizi
Unhappy Hipsters
If I'm honest, all these buildings and rooms look very appealing to me.
funny:sad  photos  architecture  design  via:john-burke  funny:malicious  pretty_pictures 
february 2010 by cshalizi
The New Materialism
bruces unleashes some design-speak. But the point is right.
sterling.bruce  architecture  design  modernism  oxman.neri  evolutionary_design 
may 2008 by cshalizi
Skyeome.net » Blog Archive » Fashionable Networks
Skye is right; compared to what actual designers produce, our graphics are _painfully ugly_ and _uncompelling_. How can we do better?
visual_display_of_quantitative_information  design  bender-de_moll.skye 
april 2008 by cshalizi
CD Cover Meme - Brainiac - The Boston Globe
Generate your own indie album cover. The results (follow the link to the flickr pool) are astonishingly convincing.
design  music  funny:malicious  photos 
march 2008 by cshalizi
Learning to See Rhetorical Design through Computational Thinking (Abstract)
Talk by the head of our English dept. ("Only at CMU...") Sounds great but much would depend on the implementation; missed the talk as I had to teach.
rhetoric  computation  design  kaufer.david  carnegie_mellon 
march 2008 by cshalizi
30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs
Totally implausible, yet strangely attractive, bookpr0n.
furniture  coveted  via:nielsen  bookpr0n  design 
february 2008 by cshalizi
Modern - Designer Cat Trees-Cat Furniture
Not _intentionally_ funny, mind you, but nonetheless quietly hilarious. (Also, in fact, pretty sleek-looking.)
funny  cats  design 
february 2008 by cshalizi
John & Belle Have A Blog: DOES WANT
That is, indeed, a very cool-looking table.
design  furniture  coveted 
november 2007 by cshalizi
Design By Numbers - John Maeda - The MIT Press
Programming for artists (!?!) - looks very cool, but also hard to justify in my book budget. ---Apparently superseded by the Processing programming language/environment.
programming  design  art  coveted  books:noted  maeda.john  pretty_pictures 
october 2007 by cshalizi

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