REVIEW COPY: From Here to There by Hand Drawn Map Association
I really enjoyed reading and looking through From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association. The book is divided into six categories of maps: directional maps, found maps, fictional maps, artful maps, maps of unusual places and explanatory maps. Each map that is a category explains what is going on with the map, and typically a story. What I found enjoyable was reading the personal anecdotes of why a person needed... Read More
A Link Drop of Sorts, 3 things that really spiked today & their similar paths
Up until a couple months ago I’d collect a number of links over a week, look at what patterns tied them together and make a mind map of it. Things have been really busy and I haven’t had the time to focus on that type of post. I’m also looking at a huge magnitude shift in the number of things I can read during a week—it is really hard to take the time to stop reading and start posting. Today was strange in that I kept tweeting... Read More
Turning a Print Magazine into a Friendly iPad Version, Looking at Dazed & Confused
Now that the iPad has been out for a couple months I’m starting to see different types of clusters of functions happening for publishing. There’s the standard web version through a browser, stand alone mags like Wired that have to be designed twice to fit portrait and landscape formats, pdfs, feeds like Flipboard and now a light weight flipbook like device that is essentially the print magazine in digital format. While the tech... Read More
Videos
High Line Record from Mark Edward Campos on Vimeo. This video plays the map made here: http://www.markedwardcampos.com/index.php?/architecture/new-york/ Built with Processing. Dieter Rams in conversation with the director of London’s Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic. Filmed at Vitsœ, 72 Wigmore Street London in September 2008. Design Noted Film Festival 004 Design Noted Film Festival 003 Design Noted Film Festival 002 Five... Read More
A Couple Angles About Education During This Economy of Online Scale
This is one of those posts that came together after reading and viewing three different angles concerning education. It made sense to lump them together to show the spectrum of where education might be headed. I remember watching the video from Salman Khan first. My thoughts after that were if a person was really motivated they could really teach themselves more than a person that is unmotivated that is going to University. There’s a lot of... Read More
Inside vs Outside Info Gathering
Over the past couple of months I’ve tried documenting how my consumption of information has evolved with my iPad. I’m using a couple different readers like Reeder and Pulse News. I’ve also noticed that there’s sites that are filtering Twitter like TwitterTimes and the new app Flipboard that is using tweets as the starting point to gather headlines. Pulling from Twitter is both helpful and a hinderance at the same time. Those... Read More
Checking out the Os Gemeos x Futura mural at PS. 11 Going Up
This morning I found out from a tweet of MarcDSchiller that Os Gemeos and Futura2000 have a painting going up. After spending some quality time enjoying the great weather at Madison Square Park I decided to walk a couple blocks to check out the progress. The painting is going up on the side of a school at 320 West 21st street and looks to be titled the “giant project” according to a post from Os Gemeos website. UPDATE: Below is the press release... Read More
#walkingtoworktoday
#Walkingtoworktoday is an ongoing photo documentation project open to anyone. The guidelines are pretty simple. 1.Take an image while walking to work. 2. Post that image to flickr and tag the image with walkingtoworktoday (all one word). 3. Tweet the title of the image with the hash tag #walkingtoworktoday along with a link to the image on flickr. I’ve been testing a slightly updated idea of distributing content. While it’s not unique... Read More
Jeff Bezos, Charlie Rose, Streaming Interviews, Stretching Media Types and Transcripts…
Originally I wanted to do a post about the interview Charlie Rose did with Jeff Bezos. I had planned to embed the video of the talk and make a couple points about the things that stood out. But to my confusion I when I went to the share button on the page all I could do was email a link to someone. What surprises me is that I used to be able to embed the entire interview and now I can’t. I did notice that there is a six minute clip on YouTube.... Read More
Looking at the Redesign of the @Nooka Website
I’ve been really lucky in 2010 so far. It has also been incredibly busy. While transitioning from Daylife and before starting at Behavior I had the opportunity to work with one of my favourite brands to design their new site in terms of UX. I’m not a huge fan of the word UX as I see it as part of the natural part of design, but I’ll save that discussion for a different post. Essentially I worked with Nooka to see what could... Read More
