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YouTube - DEADLINE the making of
film  animation  making  documentary 
june 2009
Point/Counterpoint
An important list of the subtle differences between the tech centers of SF and London. Important because more than half our studio has a foot in either place.
funny  list  blog 
march 2009
Ivory Press | C photo magazine - A New International Magazine of Photography
Foster's Wife sets up a rare book shop of artists and bookmakers.
books  fotografia  art  photography  revista  foster 
february 2009
Screensaver "Factory Safety" [Art Lebedev]
Art Lebedev create a serious yet enjoyable safety screensaver for a factory client. I enjoyed it even though I work in an office...
artlebedev  created  animation  work 
february 2009
The Future of Wild Fish Project [Central]
What we're working on here at Central
Central  Project  Promotion  Packard  Foundation  Sustainability  Complex  Systems 
february 2009
Friday Edition Amazered
Truly inspiring. We're not sure we should leave the site looking like this. It adds a dazzle we sorely lack in our office. Now where's one of my cats...
silly  internet 
january 2009
Angry bored octopus goes wilding - [Boing Boing]
Funniest headline + article I've seen in a long time: A octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp.
BoingBoing  Post  funny 
december 2008
The Wallet : What A Bear Market Might Teach Us [WSJ]
Two quotes: "The most important lesson that I learned, I believe, is that money is not wealth." & "Life may not always have been easy, but it certainly was good.". Personal and illuminating piece from WSJ writer Jason Zweig.
WSJ  personal  money  Article  wealth  investing  culture  economy 
december 2008
Election maps 2008
Mark Newman (cousin) updates his cartogram election maps, insanely fast, to show this year's results.
maps  election  cartogram  map  2008  data  usa  Newman 
november 2008
Unboxed - Design Is More Than Packaging [NYTimes.com]
The only smart thing said or written about in this article: "It would be overreaching to say that design thinking solves everything. That’s putting it too high on a pedestal," Mr. Kembel says. "Business thinking plus design thinking ends up being far more powerful."
design  Process  designthinking  NYtimes  Article 
october 2008
Another Frightening Show About the Economy [This American Life]
Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson - the two guys who reported our Giant Pool of Money episode—are back, and explaining in alarmingly simple terms why shit happened, and how it might have been prevented.
thisamericanlife  economy  podcast  radio  NPR  CPR 
october 2008
313 - A Handy Map of San Francisco Bay [Strange Maps]
This 'Handy Map of San Francisco' does not say why or whether it is absolutely necessary to paint your right thumbnail black to create the effect of San Francisco.
blog  SF  visualization  California  SanFrancisco  Maps  travel 
september 2008
Making money twice - [37signals]
That's roughly $765,000 over a few years off roughly the same content. Insight and ideas about how we run our business.
37Signals  Business  Blog  Money 
september 2008
World War II Codebreaking Remembered [The Encyclopedia Vulcanica]
And that most importantly, were it not for the works of invention and genius performed at Bletchley Park in contribution to defeating the Nazis, your entire way of life could be markedly different.
opinion  blog  vizzina  Bletchley  Codebreakers  WWII  Enigma  Newmanry 
september 2008
Big black holes [Jason kottke]
Put another way, if you had 99 duodecillion dollars, you could buy as many PlayStation 3s as you wanted. Blows your mind, right?
funny  short-post  kottke  blog  blackholes 
september 2008
He has got the hustle [Channel 4]
Nice to see a very good mate of ours getting some love: "I'm doing Jude Law next week," Charlie says, before grabbing the phone to negotiate a rate for Hello! syndication. Mr Gray is very well-mannered...it's something he's learnt from hanging around the truly professional and successful of the world.
CharlieGray  Article  Channel4  Press  Photographer  UK 
september 2008
Important work can be done while daydreaming [The Boston Globe]
The ability to think abstractly that flourishes during daydreams also has important social benefits. Mostly, what we daydream about is each other, as the mind retrieves memories, contemplates "what if" scenarios, and thinks about how it should behave in the future.
Article  innovation  Research  Science  Creativity  inspiration  Psychology  Behaviour  brain 
september 2008
Interview with David Simon [The Believer]
My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader.
Article  Interview  culture  tv  Entertainment  writing 
september 2008
How to read a movie - Roger Ebert's Journal [Sun Times]
In simplistic terms: Right is more positive, left more negative. Movement to the right seems more favorable; to the left, less so. The future seems to live on the right, the past on the left. The top is dominant over the bottom.
Article  Film  reference  Ebert  Criticism 
september 2008
Why America is Fucked [You Tube]
Draplin answers the question of why America is fucked, graphically. A teaser for a new project from Draplin Industries.
design  Typography  signage  Draplin  movie 
august 2008
Axel Peemoeller - Eureka Carpark Melbourne
Peemoeller designs an interesting way-finding system for a parking lot in Melbourne. "In Melbourne I developed a way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark. The distored letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. This project won several international design awards."
design  architecture  Typography  signage  parking  wayfinding 
august 2008
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - [Boston.com]
n of photographs from CERN, showing various stages of completion of the LHC and several of its larger experiments (some over seven stories tall), over the past several years.
blog  Research  technology  photography  Science  gallery  tech  switzerland 
august 2008
Lyons House, Robin Boyd, Sydney [cityofsound]
Great write-up of a tour of Melbourne architect Robyn Boyd, "...The kids apparently enjoyed the fact they could bolt themselves in."
Architect  Sydney  House  Architecture  Review  DanHill 
august 2008
Sunday Times subeditors reply to Giles Coren [The Guardian]
Dear Giles, Sub-editing is a noble profession. It is also a thankless one - particularly when your writers call you a "useless cunt".
UK  Guardian  writing  Times  editors  Response 
july 2008
Tokyo through the eyes of Shibuya shantytown residents [Boing Boing TV]
Today on Boing Boing tv, we debut Dowa Mondai: Assimilation Issues, an experimental short film by Bob Jaroc which attempts to provide an answer
BobJaroc  film  Japan  Art  BoingBoing 
july 2008
50 Must Read Blogs and Resources for Architecture Majors
For the Architecture degree I never took.
architecture  list  reference 
july 2008
Cameron reunited with stolen bike [BBC News]
Mr Theophile added: "You never want to see anyone have their bike nicked - not even a Tory."
BBCNews  UK  Bicycle 
july 2008
Silverback — guerrilla usability testing
The best thing 'bout this, in my opinion, is the moving background, at the top of the page, as you enlarge or shrink the browser window. It's downright 3 Dimensional. Great app. too.
CSS  OSX  software  application  Usability  UK 
july 2008
Read Giles Coren's letter to Times subs [ guardian.co.uk ]
"There is no length issue. This is someone thinking "I'll just remove this indefinite article because Coren is an illiterate cunt and i know best"."
Critic  English  Guardian  journalism  Times  writing 
july 2008
John Thackara: We Are All Emerging Economies Now [Design Observer]
"It is my growing conviction that, as designers, we can usually do more good in our own backyards than in foreign parts."
Criticism  design  designobserver  Development  innovation  Sustainability 
july 2008
Blogs for Print Nerds: Zine Fest Flaunts Camp and Crafts [WIRED]
More than 100 zine-makers packed the County Fair building in Golden Gate Park over the weekend to celebrate San Francisco's annual Zine Festival.
zines  WIRED  print  SanFrancisco 
july 2008
iPhone 2.0: The glory wore off in wash [37signals]
"The cumulative effect of small problems is exponential"
Apple  cellphone  review  software  Mobile  37signals 
july 2008
felix sockwell / icons for iPhone
Felix draws for the iPhone, and explains it for us.
Blog  drawing  graphics  icon  illustration  NYtimes  Process  Sockwell 
july 2008
Museum of Notebooks
As it says, a diligently collected pile of notebooks from around the globe.
notebook  book  Blog  Museum 
july 2008
Web 2.0, Ubiquity, Sustainability and Consumer Rights [WorldChanging]
If we are going to interact with companies in intimate ways -- in ways that impact our deepest life choices -- those interactions ought not only to be held to a higher standard of transparency and public accountability
Blog  ethics  innovation  internet  PSS  ShulzeWebb  Informatics 
july 2008
More Neo-Biological Design [WorldChanging]
Designs inspired by nature + Bucky's comment.
design  environment  Sustainability  innovation 
july 2008
Liquid Architecture - Jonathan Glancey on the London Festival of Architecture [guardian.co.uk]
To mark the London Festival of Architecture, Jonathan Glancey explores whether the capital's waterlogged past holds the key to its future.
architecture  cities  Future  urbanism  History  Festival 
july 2008
The 10 Commandments of Web Design
It take nineteen people to contribute to the rather silly special report from Business Week on web design.
design  web  business  BusinessWeek  Article 
june 2008
Chatting with Stamen Design. [adaptive path blog]
I think live, vast, and deep is some of the terminology that we’ve been using lately.
design  visualization  AdaptivePath  stamen 
june 2008
psychedelic-concentration-camp [Bob Jaroc]
movie  video  music  Plaid  BobJaroc  CNN  Footage 
june 2008
Great browser debate ends with Firefox 3.0 [ CHICAGO SUN-TIMES ]
This is a curious malady in which an app appears to have only an academic understanding of what a human is and how one operates.
Article  review  software  Firefox  Quote 
june 2008
50 office-speak phrases you love to hate [BBC NEWS]
As a consultant I'm always on the lookout for new ways to confuse my clients...
Article  BBC  communication  Office  Amusing 
june 2008
Is Google Making Us Stupid? [The Atlantic]
The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.
Article  Behaviour  books  google  reading  NicholasCarr 
june 2008
Computers and the environment | Buy our stuff, save the planet | Economist.com
The internet could become as ungreen as aviation. A self-serving solution beckons.
environment  Footprint  networks  Sustainability  web  energy  Economist  Article 
june 2008
Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
The history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time.
Article  business  History  innovation  NewYorker  Research  Science 
may 2008
Daring Fireball Linked List: May 2008
No one’s going to beat Apple by being “good enough”.
"good  enough"  Apple  Gruber  "Daring  Fireball"  Blog  brand 
may 2008
To the Letter Born - Campaign Stops - 2008 Elections - Opinion - New York Times Blog
I think it just amplifies the personality that’s already there. In fact, the typeface would work just as well for John McCain or Hillary Clinton, for that matter.
branding  campaign  communication  design  font  logo  NYtimes  Typography 
april 2008
:: Film & Video : Artist Series : Sagmeister08 ::
Having guts always worked out for me.
art  design  inspiration  video  Sagmeister  HillmanCurtis 
april 2008
Living with the Trojan iBrain [Times Online]
I think a good web experience is really the biggest weapon that Apple has smuggled into the carrier's world via the iPhone: it's a Trojan horse...
business  Experience  Mobile  review  technology  TimesUK 
march 2008
DOTHETEST
but did you see the....
Advertising  Blog  campaign  cognitive  fun  illusion  London  Psychology  UK  viral  ads 
march 2008
The cycling blog of Gino Zahnd, who lives in Chico, California: On passion [Chico Gino]
"Simon, if you happen to read this, you totally rocked it, and inspired me and everyone else in the room"
Blog  Gino  Passion  Inspired  Idea 
march 2008
60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design | Fonts | [Smashing Magazine]
What fonts can be used effectively in almost every Corporate Design? And what are the options for unique, but still incredibly beautiful typefaces? Let’s find out... or not.
Article  Blog  typefaces  type  Resource  list 
march 2008
The Arion Press Catalogue:"Squarings"
Sol LeWitt! And those first drawings, yes, are all atremble with promise. Forty-eight of them beyond expectation.
SeamusHeaney  SolLeWitt  Poetry  Book  ArionPress  illustration  Squarings 
march 2008
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss [Paul Graham]
they seem both more worried and happier at the same time. Which is exactly how I'd describe the way lions seem in the wild.
inspiration  work  essay  PaulGraham 
march 2008
Q&A: Battelle talks blog roll-ups, Google, and Federated Media's future | Tech news blog [ CNET News.com ]
Because people don't understand them and they hope things that they don't understand will pan out.
Advertising  blogs  business  marketing  Publishing  Battelle 
march 2008
DELIRIOUS DUBAI [LEBBEUS WOODS]
Before anyone could criticize the pandering commercialism of his office tower designs, he would say, “I’m a whore.”
architecture  Blog  cities  Criticism  design  koolhaas  politics  urbanism  visualization  Future  History  Dubai 
march 2008
Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s by Paul Ford [The Morning News]
Thus, the 763 reviews you’ll find below. For brevity, I kept each to exactly six words.
Article  audio  funny  list  music  PaulFord 
march 2008
Google your way to a wacky office [BBC NEWS | Technology |]
The wacky office is both a showcase for Google's unconventional approach to business and a symbol to prove that Google is no longer a US-centric firm.
business  Creative  google  Office  Design  Brand  Behaviour 
march 2008
20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time [Blender.com]
"Unintended consequence: The Monkees"
Blog  music  Article  screw-ups 
march 2008
CNN says analyst should have skipped Spitzer story [Houston Chronicle]
CNN said it shouldn't have used a former U.S. attorney who quit his job after allegedly biting a stripper...
CNN  Article  funny  Stripper  Spitzer 
march 2008
When a Corporate Donation Raises Protests [New York Times]
A better article on the A&F naming of a children's hospital.
brand  branding  marketing  Article  Ambercrombie+Fitch 
march 2008
US retailer faces row over donation deal [guardian.co.uk]
One local authority in Wisconsin recently offered to sell the rights to name its high schools. McDonald's courted controversy in Florida by advertising on student report cards.
branding  Ambercrombie&Fitch  Sponsorship  marketing  brand 
march 2008
the making of: Ceci N'est Pas Un Satelloon [greg.org]
"But darned if it isn't pretty damn close. La Géode is a mirrored geodesic dome housing a hemispheric Omnimax theatre"
architecture  blog  geodesic  dome 
march 2008
there he goes again [Lessig Blog]
That's in part because people like Keen say I do, and on balance because most people (sensibly) have better things to do than to struggle through the turgid prose of an academic.
blogs  Law  Lessig  Response 
march 2008
David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' [Village Voice]
...take away the director from the staged play and what do you get? Usually a diminution of strife, a shorter rehearsal period, and a better production.
culture  Essay  Philosophy  Mamet  liberals 
march 2008
An Airline Terminal for a Security-Wary Era [New York Times]
"The design of that terminal was intended to make sure that no one will have to worry that their wait time is going to be greater than 10 minutes."
Article  NYtimes  Airport  Architecture  Design 
march 2008
How Flickr developed into a classic Web 2.0 success [ The Observer ]
"Flickr is a classic Web 2.0 story. In the first place, it was an unintended outcome of another project." Celebrating Flickr's 4th birthday - which in web years is 30.
Flickr  yahoo  web  2.0  Article  case_study 
march 2008
PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" :Gaffer Tape Art in Tokyo’s Train Stations
Article  design  font  graphic  graphics  japan  signage  Typography  visualization 
october 2007
X-Seed 4000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"the real Mount Fuji is land-based and is 3.8 kilometers in height, nearly 213 m (700 feet) shorter than X-Seed 4000."
architecture  building  Future  japan  wikipedia 
august 2007
Market populism in the folksonomies debate (Atomiq)
"I was struck by how Ontology is Overrated uses the core arguments of market populism to make its points."
Article  Blog  Criticism  critique  shirky  IA 
august 2007
HierarchyVersusFacetsVersusTags < Journal < OSAF
Essay on tagging, hierarchy, archiving etc
Article  Project  Chandler 
august 2007
Crooked Brains by Venus
JSWA holds "Sewage Works Exhibition every year where the latest sewage technologies are exposed.
architecture  Image  japan  photo  urban  sewer  underground 
august 2007
Product Packages Now Shout to Get Your Attention [NYT]
“If you’re walking down a row in a supermarket and every package is screaming at you, it sounds like a terrifying, disgusting experience,”
article  product  branding  design  packaging  Pepsi 
august 2007
The Road to Clarity - [NYT]
"Less than a generation ago, fonts were for the specialist, an esoteric pursuit, what Stanley Morison, the English typographer who helped create Times New Roman in the 1930s, called “a minor technicality of civilized life.”
Article  design  type  Typography  signage 
august 2007
Photo in the News: Robot Fish Debut in London
This week the London Aquarium unveiled the newest "species" to join its collection: robo-carp.
Article  nature  Science  technology  NationalGeographic 
july 2007
George Orwell: Why I Write
Orwell's four reason why he writes.
literature  Orwell  Rules  English  Essay 
july 2007
Sleeping beauty - Building Design
Piece on FOA. "The word masterpiece is not one that I have used often in these pages, but it is an accolade that the ferry terminal at Yokohama surely deserves."
architecture  FOA 
june 2007
ArchitectureWeek - Design - Dominus in Depth - 2007.0620
Dominus Winery by Herzog and DeMeuron in Napa. Unvisitable by general public, nice to see the photos.
architecture  HerzogDeMeuron  winery  Dominus  building  article 
june 2007
Green prince leaves a giant CO2 - Times Online
"Simple actions that could be done by one man seem to take three when the prince is involved.”
Prince  Charles  Carbon  Footprint  Criticism  Times  UK  Article  Green 
june 2007
Arne Jacobsen: The man who invented a golden egg - Independent Online Edition > Europe
Arne Jacobsen and his egg chair.
Article  designer  Chair  Arne  Jacobsen  Indepentent  UK 
june 2007
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