Translation: “Oh, don’t worry folks, we’re still cool – I mean c’mon we loooove these guys – but we’re also all about making sure our current stream of cash flow makes into the new era of smart phones…aaaand we’re still a little pissed about that whole no 3rd party (read: CS5) tools being able to target the iPhone. Which is why we’ve run and cried to the government that ‘Apple isn’t playing fair!’” (via Gruber)
—13 May 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Backward bars: riding that aesthetic line between “hipster” and “homeless”.
—23 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Earn this:
And I did. Via bicycle:
A: SFSU
B: Bi-rite Creamery, small, two flavors, malted vanilla with peanut butter and milk chocolate + salted caramel (a classic).
—19 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
It’s not ready for prime-time just yet but I am working on my own – verrry simple – Tumblr theme. I’m calling it “Doe-eyed”.
Two-column with odd posts on one side and even posts on the other (it’s the only way I could figure out how to stagger the posts from one side to the other). Any crtiques, suggestions would be welcome. Re-blog me with anything. Thanks!
—19 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Classy.
—18 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
The morning after
—18 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Une autre moustache:
I believe that’s 4
—17 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
via petervidani from “Starts With A Bang” at The Lazy Astronomer:
Photo of the International Space Station taken with a digital camera through a pair of binoculars.
—16 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
This looks promising.
I like — in the amused sense — that sites are being “launched” at SXSW the way movies are “launched” at film festivals.
makingofmovies:
brieflynoted:
A friend just sent me the link to AnyClip, a site that indexes movie clips for your viewing pleasure. The site just launched at SXSW, so expect a few bumps initially, but really, what an awesome idea. When you find the clip you’re looking for you can view, share on Facebook or your blog, and even mark the film in your Netflix queue or buy it via Amazon or iTunes.
I’ll be sure to let you know when I find my favorite scene from Hitchcock’s Man from the South. Those Zippo lighters aren’t so reliable now are they?
—15 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
I think I’ll make “facedbook.com,” where you post only pictures of yourself totally shitfaced. Oh, wait, that’s still just facebook.com.
@wilshipley
—14 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
jarredbishop:
Great copywriting. /via semicolonclosedbracket
I love this:
They don’t contain Red Dye #40. If you enjoy Red Dye #40, you will have to eat it separately.
—13 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Christoph Niemann and his Google map-esque illustrations on NYT’s Abstract City Blog.
Christoph Niemann is also the creator of the wonderful I LEGO N.Y. among other things.
—12 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Yes! Yes! Yes!
/Via annie by way of…
—12 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
More Edison enlightenment via merlin.
—12 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Letterpress & stamp business cards (via Cameron Moll)
Cameron Moll:
If you’re at the HOW Design Conference in Austin TX next week, stop by my session on Thursday or Friday for one of these cards. Each card is handcrafted from a discarded letterpress poster (that wasn’t fit for sale for one reason or another) with my information stamped on back.
Brilliant.
—11 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
via petervidani:
From katiebakes, on an article on slate about the design of a universal EXIT sign:
For Ota, the most remarkable thing was not that his design won but how similar his design was to the Soviets’. They, too, had submitted a figure of a man running out a door. He was amazed that two design teams, working independently, would develop such similar concepts, and the coincidence convinced him of the essential rightness of the running man. He came to believe he had designed not just Yukio Ota’s exit sign, not just a Japanese exit sign, but a fundamentally human exit sign, one that speaks to some primal cognitive notion of escape.
“Some primal cognitive notion of escape”.
I like this notion that design is to, first and formost, serve human beings and -– needle-in-a-haystack style — can sometimes find the path to some sort of universal understanding.
—11 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
