Pecha Kucha New York
Just heard about Pecha Kucha New York, which is like a speed design talk. They describe it like this: each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. The line up for the next talk January 31st is as follows: Amale Andraos and Dan Wood WORK Architecture Company Afaina de Jong Afarai Hadi Ghaemi Human Rights Watch David Reinfurt Dexter Sinister Donna Wingate Precipice Alliance Peter... Read More
Yahoo Maps Mashup: Measure your running distance and save the information
Long before google attempted to create a measurement tool for their maps, Randy Troppmann created a mash up for runners using Yahoo Maps at www.runningmap.com. The navigation and his instructions have improved over time, but the real benefit to this site is the fact that you can store your routes. By saving the information you can share it with others and watch your progress. There’s also a live chat feature. My only negative remark about the site is that the green lines... Read More
What you can learn from a Super Bowl bound blog
While I could speculate on who the fanatics are behind the Da’ Bears Blog, their about section leaves it in doubt as to who the are. However Noah Brier has broken down the success of the blog in five succinct points at Super Bowl Bound, A look at the success of Da Bears Blog. Maybe he’s one of the guys behind it? Anyways, the points he makes are applicable to any blog. Noah’s observations are as follows – though be sure to go to his site to read the why’s... Read More
Using Photoshop to Render a Shoe
First Pullover, the excellent shoe design blog that is based on hummel shoes has a tutorial titled Footwear Photoshop rendering tutorial > part 1-6. Even if you only use Photoshop a bit and don’t design shoes, there’s some interesting techniques that could probably help you with other renderings that you might have to do some day. Read More
design-art?
I’d hate to make a habit of posting something that corresponds to every new article I read from Alice Rawsthorn published by the International Herald Tribune, but I think the timing is warranted. Her latest is titled The designer Newson teams up with Gagosian Gallery. The timing comes as Marc Newson has an opening this Thursday night at Gagosian Gallery in New York. The article itself gives a decent overview of how this design-art has come to be, and the predecessing social... Read More
Updated Links
I’ve just updated my “other sites” section with the below links: Advertising/Design Goodness, black . white . bliss, the Charlie Rose Show, Diagram, Dumbo NYC, Experience Manifesto, frogblog, The News is NowPublic.com and State of the Art Advertising/Design Goodness www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/ Frederik Samuel’s blog that show a lot of advertising and design visuals black . white . bliss blackwhitebliss.blogspot.com/ Trisha’s about statement on her blog... Read More
Likemind Six Recap
Just got back from Likemind held at sNice in New York. Like all the events that I’ve been to with this Likemind, the mix of people were friendly and had a lot of things going on. Some of the new people that I met ran sites like brand experience lab, Lets Meet Out, the happy corp, Roboyouth and ran into old friends like cellar door, PSFK, do.palicio.us, Jack Cheng and Charles Gallant. I’ve also posted some flickr pics HERE. Read More
Likemind 6
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Likemind 5, originally uploaded by Michael Surtees. See you this morning at Likeminds if you’re in NYC. If you’re not NYC, perhaps you’re living in Seattle, San Francisco, London, Dallas, Oslo, Boston or Malmö. Don’t see your city, get in touch at the likeminds web site to... Read More
Evolution of a wall with Swoon, 2003 to now
The youtube video shows a four year progression of a wall in the lower east side of New York by the street artist Swoon. Fascinating prgression of technique and politics. via gammablog Read More
Reading and watching on your iPod, are these really digital magazines?
There’s been a couple photo applications on the video iPod that have challenged the idea of reading magazines. The first that I became aware of was Tiger (btw the cover image has a semi nude women on it, so use your own discretion) – a screen based art magazine that has started to transfer their content for an iPod download. It’s never been a printed publication so the experimentation is a natural evolution. On the more commercial side there’s Perooz.com... Read More
