January 2009
23 posts
Art Lebedev Mandership § 155: On printing... →
Rule: In order to paper print an icon or a screenshot, you have to simply resize the image with no prior smoothing. If a printing person gets in your way saying: “72 dpi images for printing? Over my…
Michael Beirut has been using blank, unlined... →
OK, so I’m twenty years behind him, but I’ve got ten years of these stacked up too. It’s always weird to realize just how much I fit into the designer stereotype.
Prezi.com - The zooming presentation editor →
This looks sort of amazing, and it would fit with the way I build presentations anyway - all images, no text. Could be lovely.
I just realized that by adding that ostrich egg video, I now have four individual egg-related items on the front page of my website alone. Anybody would guess that my subconcious thinks I’m ovulating or something. Weird.
WatchPhil Clark demonstrates the Julia Childs-approved method of opening an ostrich egg: hitting it very hard.
Is Chewbacca trapped in my nightstand? →
I believe he is! Worth a click.
'We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence' →
Simon Hoegsberg has a great 100-meter-long photograph, taken from one spot on a railroad bridge in Berlin.
This is what it's like to work for Apple as a... →
“This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty minutes into that meeting Cook looked at Sabih Khan, a key operations executive, and abruptly asked,…
Supersize Soft Sans Serif Script →
I love this idea; let’s see if I can talk Erika into making it her next project. But of course I’d want a full alphabet. And in Alte Haas Grotesk, if I could get it. Or maybe Univers Condensed!
January 10, 2008: Gifford says two true things... →
“There are nine cities in the United States with more than one million inhabitants. In China there are forty-nine. You can be traveling across China, arrive in a city that is twice the size…
Bokeh Type →
I love this. Wait for the flash to load, and then just start typing.
Two men use handguns to hold up La Mesa store →
I always knew my local Michaels Craft store was a dangerous place to be! Now I know why.
January 6, 2008: Chang on the returning traveler →
“The ache of the traveler returning home is a classic theme in Chinese literature. One of the first poems a schoolchild learns, from the eighth century, is about a man who goes back to his…
January 6, 2008: Chang on my favorite place in all... →
“I came to like Dongguan, which seemed a perverse expression of China at its most extreme. Materialism, environmental ruin, corruption, traffic, pollution, noise, prostitution, bad driving,…
Design Loves a Depression - NYTimes.com →
“American designers took the Depression as a call to arms. It was a chance to make good on the Modernist promise to make affordable, intelligent design for a broad audience.”
January 4, 2008: Tolstoy knows when he's out of... →
“‘I’m convinced that the Russians must either die of conquer,’ he said, aware himself, as the others were, once the word had been spoken, that it was too rapturous and pompous for the…
Objectified Trailer: A Documentary Film by Gary... →
The man who made the movie about Helvetica is one about industrial design. Obviously, I can’t wait.