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Archive for the ‘design’ tag

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Multicolr #

September 30th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

Gems Sty points to a very cool way to browse Flickr photos: by color. It even lets you do many colors at once.

Tiny Houses #

September 3rd, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

There are no doubt hundreds of posts like this one floating around the internet, chronicalling all the small houses one can find within a few Google searchs. None the less, I really liked browsing through this one.

(via MeFi)

Awesome Bridges #

August 27th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

This bridges are literally awesome. If you don’t take a look, you’re really missing out.

(via Neatorama)

It Eats Itself #

August 26th, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

There’s something about this “Anthropomorphic Cannabalism” Flickr set that’s undeniably good.

(via Boing Boing)

Urban Camping #

August 5th, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

Sadly refraining from linking to the source, Gems Sty highlights a pretty clever idea: a tent that looks like a car covered by it’s obsessive owner, allowing you privacy on even the world’s busiest streets. (Well, assuming you can find a parking spot.)

Font Conference #

July 22nd, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

I’m a little disappointed by how obvious all the character choices in this sketch were, but I did laugh a few times anyway.

(via Daring Fireball)

The Problem With (Computer) Mice #

July 22nd, 2008 | In Worth Considering 

I’m not sure why, but this bit of idle technological speculation caught my eye. Jonathan Hedley wants to know why all modern mice seem to use a clearly inferior design.

Matrix found that the best place for the ball was up front as far as possible between the users thumb and forefinger. The forefinger can be controlled very precisely — much more so than the wrist and forearm. Matrix found that users would move their wrist and arm to move the cursor are large distance, but for fine control relied on the thumb and forefinger.

.. It simply seems that designers and manufacturers have, over the years, forgotten about the benefit of putting the sensor up front, or have placed precision and control further down their list of priorities. I hope that this isn’t the case: that newer research has shown that the current placement is the correct placement, or that something else has changed over time. But if that’s not the case, then I hope that some design team will rediscover either the principle, or the findings — so that we can continue to strengthen the connection between the user and the computer.

(via Big Contrarian)

The Size of Britain #

July 10th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

Far more variable than you might think. The comparison of various renderings is well worth a look.

(via kottke)

Fireworks Packaging #

July 7th, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

I’m a touch late, but Cabel Sasser has collected some thoroughly entertaining pictures of fireworks packaging. It’s ersatz America through the eyes of Chinese gunpowder manufacturers. What could be better?

Mirror Tic Tac Toe #

July 2nd, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

Some things are just cool.

(via Neatorama)

Puzzling Apartment #

June 13th, 2008 | In Worth Reading 

You may have seen this already, but it’s too cool not to share. A New York apartment with puzzles and mysteries built right in.

Unbuilt Skyscrapers #

June 11th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

Architectural Record has an interesting run-down of the most innovative skyscraper designs that were never realized.

Color Flip #

June 9th, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

Because sometimes the gentle therapy of turning virtual pages of solid color is all you want to do.

(via MetaFilter)

The New City Problem #

June 9th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing 

One problem with building new cities where nothing was: architects have no idea how to design buildings.

In Dubai, for instance, what might once have been the product of 100 years of urban growth has been compressed into a decade or so. Given such seismic shifts, even the most talented architects can seem to flounder for new models. No one wants to return to the deadly homogeneity associated with Modernism’s tabula rasa planning strategies.

A Mechanical Jellyfish #

May 29th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

It’s today’s entrant for the cool-but-pointless prize.

(via GOOD)

The A-Frame #

May 21st, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

Or “a picture that uses a pair of legs to frame something, usually a torso, in the picture.” Print Magazine — which appears to have little talent at web design — has documented hundreds of examples of what it calls “the most popularly copied trope ever used.” Am I the only one that thinks it’s a little bit dirty?

(via kottke)

Presidential Campaign Logos #

May 14th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

Logoblink has amassed a collection of campaign logos from 1960 to today. I’m not sure which is more remarkable: how little they’ve changed or how much they’ve stayed the same. (Editor’s note: That childish quip is an unfair slight of all the interesting oddities that makes the list worth viewing.)

(via kottke)

Pictogram Headlines #

May 13th, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

Designing the News has a pretty clever idea for advertising: using pictograms. Admittedly, part of the reason I like it is it reminds me of a childhood “activity books.”

(via Magnetbox)

Intellectual Property and… Victoria’s Secret!? #

April 21st, 2008 | In Worth Distraction 

In the category of “news so weird there seems to be a moral obligation to convey it,” Victoria’s Secret is accused of having stolen the design for a bra from a Long Island paralegal, Katerina Plew.

“The first time I thought of it I was getting ready for a christening,” Ms. Plew said in a telephone interview from her home in Selden, N.Y. “It was an idea that just popped into my head in — don’t know — like March of ’99.”

The bra, with its various hooks and eyelets, is something like the Micronaut of the undergarment world. By a complicated set of maneuvers, it can be worn in as many as 100 different ways.

Which, of course, made it a highly prized commodity to underwear purveyors. In 2006, Ms. Plew said she had arranged to meet with designers from Victoria’s Secret. But without warning and on the very day it was set to have occurred, the designers canceled her appointment, she contends.

Hard Times #

April 21st, 2008 | In Worth Seeing 

This week’s oddly cool charts are provided by Matt Mason and Nicholas Feldon for We Tell Stories. In a beautifully presented (but sometimes confusing) set of grids, they argue that life today is full of many kinds of problems but that there’s a great possibility for as many kinds of solutions.

(via Snarkmarket)

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