Wanting to take a look back so I can figure out how to proceed with 2009, I grabbed a bunch of notable posts that I thought were worth spending a bit more time with. Below each image I’ve made a note now that I’ve had some time away from each of the original posts. Here’s to the new year and thanks for visiting, and linking and commenting and…
Do you have an iPod shuffle… and live in New York?
01.16.08
This seemed like a great idea at the time, trade my shuffle with someone else and hear some new music. I ended up trading but due to my own business it took way too long to trade back with her. I learned my lesson – anyone else want to try trading?
Copywronged Google Map
01.18.08
I wanted to combine some of my photography with a listing of location. Another idea with good intentions, problem was it took a lot of time to map it out and I had no way of exporting the data offline if I wanted to. So after a while I stopped posting to that map.
Living Patterns
01.29.08
This post gave me the first really big pop traffic wise for the year. There were a ton of people that thought the map was pretty cool.
Architecture wrapped up as a shoe
01.31.08
I didn’t see as many women wearing these shoes as I hoped (probably b/c they were stupidly expensive). But it’s still true that NYC has the most beautiful people anywhere in the world…
Actually seeing those Obama posters outside
02.02.08
This was before things really took off with Obama, I had seen the Hope graphic floating around the web but this was the first image I saw of it actually on the streets. A while after that post someone mailed me a couple of the posters. That was a very good day.
Orange Bicycles in New York
02.03.08
There was an interesting discussion after I posted this - unfortunately when I installed Disqus after the fact that comment stayed in the old database of comments. In effect the person was objecting to the commercialization of the idea of the Ghost Bike. At the time I was pretty much on the opposite side thinking that a company shouldn’t have to worry about worry such things. As I’ve walked a lot through the city and seen those white bikes out there, that person may have been correct with their objections.
Making something understandable as opposed to just simplifying
02.04.08
I still luv this design, I wish everything I design could be as smart as that tag.
Talking Sticker
02.08.08
I was fascinated with how this post happened. Took a photo of a cool sticker, the person that designed it contacted me and this was the diagram that tracked it.
36 days of New York Sky: January 16th 2008 - February 20th 2008
2.20.08
This project is still going on for a couple weeks, but the number of people that saw it and contacted me after this post was quite amazing. Not sure where this project will end up but up until now it’s been interesting to watch it grow.
Looking at MoMA’s Design and Elastic Mind Exhibition
02.25.08
There was three events that were sort of art, sort of design that I really enjoyed seeing. One was MoMA’s Design and Elastic Mind Exhibition, Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum and Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney. I would have luved to have blogged more about the last two exhibitions but since they don’t allow photography inside I’ll just mention that it’s a stupid policy that will hurt them more than what it will help. Banksy’s installations would be up there too in really good things to have seen now that I think about it.
Can you exist without a permalink?
02.26.08
Until people realize this concept they’re toast.
Unmarked Shoe
02.28.08
Just like the Frietag instruction booklet I mentioned above, Camper’s shoes are a product that other designers should want to strive for. They are perfect for the weather of NYC and never wear out. There’s only two brands of shoes that I buy, Camper and Giraudon.
A Tagger in your midst?
03.03.08
I feel bad for whoever had to make this and deal with the text.
Love Me, next come the t-shirts – maybe on Etsy?
03.07.08
Here’s to wishful thinking.
Taking a quick look at Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior
03.26.08
Of any of the books I blogged about, this by far had the most hits coming from people wanting more info on it.
Multiplatform Complaining
03.26.08
This post was the start of me sketching more fluently for blog posts.
Air Bear
03.31.08
Pure genius via Wooster Collective
Faux Eiffel Tower Extension
04.02.08
haha, sigh.
Clay Shirky on Stephen Colbert
04.05.08
There’s a lot of really smart stuff in this book. In my top 3 of things to read, and more interestingly I don’t think this book will date itself as much as some of the others along the same genre that came out this year.
Thinking about Mind 08 after the Symposium
04.07.08
I’ll really liked the design I did for this tag cloud, nothing more nothing less to this post.
reDesign Haiku
04.12.08
find, define, design
then refine the redesign
do it one more time
A friend wrote this for me over im as I talked about work…
I hope the start of next May has some great posters like this year.
I Hate Perfume, Ideas I Love
05.10.08
How cool would it be to commision someone to make a scent for you?
Today’s Sky Mention
05.14.08
This unexpected use of my sky pics made me smile.
Looking at yourself as a Graphic Designer
05.15.08
Very smart diagram…
If you care about your stuff, make sure people can duplicate it
06.01.08
This concept was an addendum to Permalink post.
My M.O.
06.11.08
This was another post where I got back some unexpected responses. I like going back every once in awhile to read the dialogue.
What are you doing today?
06.22.08
While this ad could be just about for anything, there’s some subtle and smart things going on past the surface. Too bad I couldn’t embed it and had to take a screen shot.
The Flo in Florent
06.30.08
This is why people need to hire designers.
NPR Cancels The ‘BPP’ (Bryant Park Project)?!?
07.14.08
I’m still not happy about this. More surprising (or maybe not), no one has picked up the ball on voice news since. The Daily Beast is starting to pick up the pace but it’s just txt for now.
Scrolling Through Photos
07.21.08
I can’t say enough positive things about this startup. There’s a ton of smart things going on with them.
People interpreting news events and information
07.30.08
I don’t understand why this hasn’t been fixed or updated. There’s so much potential for Google Hot Trends to be a go to source.
Everyone is not just a designer, but also a photoshop expert too
08.14.08
It’s not bad enough that everyone wants to be a designer, now they think they can art direct photos too.
Hypothetically Say You Lost your Mac Book Pro
08.18.08
Possibly my best blog post of the year imho.
Clean iPhone psd template
08.20.08
I’m surprised that Apple never made a psd themselves so people could sketch out apps.
Say what you mean w/ a click
08.25.08
For all the chatter of sites that tagged brands, I think Dear Adobe changed the game more so than any other UGC site. If I was wanting to study site concepts for company’s, this is where I would start. And no, Adobe didn’t design the site.
Flow sex
08.27.08
![flow_sex [not sure who designed this]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2803057603_e5f8c09b40_m.jpg)
What can I say? A lot of people are interested in sex.
Walking around NYC finding the David Byrne Bike Racks
09.02.08
I like to walk and this gave me an excuse to go to some areas that my normal routes wouldn’t take me.
Banksy at work in NYC: Broadway & Howard St.
10.01.08
There’s a saying about being lucky to be good, but you have to be good to be lucky. Sometimes it just helps being in the right place at the right time.
How I Find Good Stuff on the Web
10.15.08
This post kind of blew up things for me. The number of smart people that checked out my blog after this was pretty amazing. Hopefully I can build on that in the new year.
What’s your internet?
10.21.08
The amount of traffic I received after this post kind of made me eat my words about tumblr and ffffound. I just wished tumblr would archive things better…
The old and new MetLife Signs above New York
11.02.08
It’s amazing to watch the stats on how many people from MetLife check out this post everyday.
Looking at the Nooka Zon
12.08.08
I’m guesstimating that I got an extra 9,000 unique hits b/c of this post. A couple blogs and twitter really sent a lot of extra traffic my way b/c of that watch.
What Graphic Designers need to understand
12.09.08
I’ve probably had more face to face conversations about this post than anything else I blogged about this year.
