March 2009
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WatchThe Subtle Art of Persuasion
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IDEO’s Ten Tips For Creating a 21st–Century... →
IDEO has spent a lot of time and effort thinking about education. The firm’s work with Ormondale Elementary School, in Portola Valley, California, helped pioneer a special “investigative-learning” curriculum that inspires students to be seekers of knowledge.
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“Design is 70% dealing with people, 3% the idea, 2% selling the idea, 2% the...”
– GOOD FOLK #8: DUANE KING
In Real Life: James Turrell and Alice Aycock in... →
In Real Life, an exhibition asking web practitioners to make the back end of their sites visible, Art Fag City pitted James Turrell and Alice Aycock sculptures against one another in a reader driven Google Map competition.
jMetronome: Using jQuery to keep typographic... →
Use CSS and jQuery to maintain proper vertical typographic rhythm when designing pages. The technique is fairly straightforward, requiring some basic math to ensure consistent margins and leading…
Watch24 hours worth of geotagged photos (64,410) from last Monday, March 23rd. Our numbers say that around 30% are normally private, giving us a total of around 92,000 geotagged photos for that day, which is just over 1 photo geotagged per second. (via 24 Hours of Geotagged Photos on Flickr)
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“Purho surprised the audience with a cutting critique of his game, detailing the...”
– An Interview with Crayon Physicist Petri Purho | A.V. Club
Rhizome | Media Studies: Experimental Geography... →
The following is an initial list of readings that might be of interest to anyone researching experimental geography. It includes key theoretical texts on the nature of space, texts on locative media,…
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“Whilst the era of the ‘hero’ designer may be over, it seems the era of the ‘hero...”
– What made you want to be a graphic designer?
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Soramimi →
Soramimi kashi (空耳歌詞; lit. “misheard lyrics”) is a word used in the Japanese subculture language to describe lyrics of a song that sound like the original in one language, but produce a different meaning when interpreted in another language.
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“Contributors to Wikipedia have wondered aloud lately if — perish the thought —...”
– Wikipedia - Exploring Fact City - NYTimes.com
WatchDan Hill – Lift09
Google's Design Principles →
The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious…
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The Internet’s New Inconveniences →
Swarms of bloggers are not going to replace newspapers because for them there is no masthead. There is no brand to squander away with shoddy reporting or idiotic commentary. The ones that do gain my respect do so by doing two things:
They consistently put out quality content.
They don’t leave it to me to be editor-in-chief.
Designers: Make it Memorable →
Last year Jason Fried made a rather bold statement declaring the Drudge Report as one of the best designed sites on the web. I had recently been hired as a Designer, and I didn’t quite know what…
WatchLive Video Puzzle is an interactive installation that takes a live video feed from a camera and incorporates it into a traditional sliding puzzle game. (via Vimeo)
WatchDan Ariely on our buggy moral code
Qapture →
Captures and ranks the links being shared right now by some of the most interesting folks on Twitter.
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“Boredom is a natural condition of modern life that plagues rich and poor alike....”
– [Paleopsych] Joseph Brodsky: Listening to Boredom
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“Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception. In ordinary times, people...”
– Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable | Clay Shirky
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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– The Guts of a New Machine
Hunch →
Hunch is a decision-making site, customized for you. Which means Hunch gets to know you, then asks you 10 questions about a topic (usually fewer!), and provides a result — a Hunch, if you will. It…
Shelley Bernstein talks about the Brooklyn Museum... →
Brooklyn Museum itself is now a social network - that is its job - to be a center for the community to have a conversation.
Watch“A trip across Paris in a van. Lost drumsticks. A cafe you’d never expect to visit before the age of 60. An hour of waiting, and then, voilà–a few notes on the harmonium, a grand piano, a heavenly voice. Sigur Ros on a Take Away Show.” (via Vimeo)
WatchDavid Weinberger has a rant about the idiosyncratic Melvin Dewey around 20 mins
(via Google Video)
WatchPrimal Source on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Primal Source is an interactive performance/installation which has been created for an art festival in California. They used a large-scale outdoor waterscreen/mist projection system to project a stunning light-show onto the mist. The installation responds to sound emanating from the crowd, thereby letting the crowd create their own performace. That night it was...
“The Tate Triennial, normally a dry-as-a-doughnut survey show of serious British...”
– New age of the ‘ism’ in Altermodern]
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“he ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building! The decoration of...”
– Ninety Years of Bauhaus - The Manifesto, 1919.
“Just a year or two ago, it felt like Calacanis and Cuban were required reading...”
– On Blowhards
