April 2008
WatchZurich Chamber Orchestra Rollercoaster Simply fantastic,
eXtreme Type Terminology →
21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs →
A handful of these are gimmicks, but many of them are fundamentals of good photography.
Some of the best advice, I could give, is to stop trying so hard.
TV Show Helps Man Survive Wilderness →
riotrepublic: A man is lost for five days in the snowy mountains of Manitoba, but stays alive using skills he learned from the hit show “Survivorman.”
I always like to think that what I’ve learned from Les Stroud would come in handy some day.
Environmental News and Humor | Grist | 29 Apr 2008 →
Grist: Green news for people who give a crap, but don’t want to be bored out of their mind in the process.
The Candidates: How will they look in four years?... →
Dropping the C-Word : DivineCaroline →
I had this same conversation a few months ago.
Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows... →
Application to Avoid: Java Runtime Environment Indictment: You ugly and yo’ Mama dresses you funny
volll →
Pretty sweet design. A different way to think about things in a world where everyone has broadband.
Yosemite National Park - What Adams Saw Through... →
Adams first visited Yosemite in 1916 when he was 14 years old. On that trip, he hopped up on a tree stump to take a photo of Half Dome, then stumbled, headfirst, and accidentally pushed the shutter release. The upside-down image remained one of Adams’s favorites, he wrote in his autobiography.
An ode to my friends.
So I graduate college in 14 days, and I’ve had what alcoholics refer to as “a moment of clarity.” Cult film aside, what I’ve come to realise is that I’ve got friends. For the longest time I saw myself as a caustic individual who was just hard to get along with for one reason or another.
But now that I’m graduating, looking around me, at all the people I...
Creative Index →
Directory of Creative Professionals & Opportunities
Watch45 Second Shower Head Review on Vimeo
If you’re considering buying a new shower head, you might be interested in this review. Sorry for the bad sound in places but, you know, I was IN MY SHOWER.
Mail a brick to junk mailers using paid postage -... →
Step one: Get the “No Postage Necessary” envelope out of the junk mail. Step two: Put a brick (or anything) in a box. Step three: Tape the “No Postage Necessary” envelope neatly to the box Step four: Put it into those blue mail boxes, the parcel dump at the post office, or in your mail box.
Bad Type Jokes →
My life is complete.
This Ain’t No Disco →
The sweet digs of some prominent design firms.
Priest floats off under party balloons →
Seriously. Floated away.
An Atlas of the Human Body →
Replace Ads with Art! (Firefox Extension) →
How Valid Are T.V. Weather Forecasts? -... →
Corporate America's most-overlooked environmental... →
I could’ve wallpapered my entire house with the annual report from my Comcast stock.
Crowd at a rock show (Comic) →
WatchTest firing of new NASA methane rocket engine
AN ARTIST DID NOT LEAVE A DOG TO DIE AS PART OF AN...
I’ve seen this story float around way too many times. The point of the exhibit was to show what sheep people can be, as not a single person tried to feed the dog. What actually happened was that the dog was found on the streets, tied up in the art gallery where he was fed every night after the patrons left. The dog escaped in the middle of the night. Reference:...
Communication design, the definitive definition. →
tiny gigantic Big Little Things Communication design, the definitive definition. Recently, we blogged our dismay at discovering that design students today don’t really know what design means today. That blog post generated a lot of conversation around what “communication design” means, and this made us realize that a definitive definition might be useful.
