December 2008
WatchBMD Chicago gets a taste of that good ole fashioned Canadian hockey eh?!
umbau school of architecture →
A new approach to teaching architecture at this ambitious and non-accredited school.
The Umbau Manifesto
Stop doing what is comfortable.
Contrast is good.
When broad, go narrow. When tall, go low.
When wide, go tight. When bright, go dark.
When certain, get lost. When obscure, go clear.
Too much of a good thing is not a good thing.
Always look at the work on your desk from varying...
Extracting images from the human brain →
“Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11.”…
Supermarket - Great design. Straight from... →
A History of Optimism →
Torontoist, Toronto's Best Blog - shutting down →
The Torontoist has announced that they are closing down as of January 1st 2009. This surprising news is the most tangible effect of the American recession that I have come into contact with, strangely enough.
Is Graphic Design Art? Vote! →
Iraqis Pick Up Their Shoes: Reaction From Around... →
More about the shoe incident. Amazing variation, nuance, depth of responses throughout Iraq.
Shoes tossed at Bush during surprise visit to Iraq →
Obama shoo-in. Bush shoe-at.
Change.org - Ideas for Change in America →
A great web 2.0 site that lets folks propose and vote on their ideas for change in a range of categories. And this is being used as a democratic vehicle by the incoming Obama administration to assess views and gather ideas:
“The “Top 10 Ideas for America” will be presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day. We will then build a national campaign to advance each...
Prototype piezoelectric road could generate power... →
WatchEducating clients to say yes
Some good advices on how to deal with clients in an inspirational manner. Although related to webdesing, we can surely grab a thing or two from them!
WatchAviary is now online.
Edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate, and more….all in the browser for $10 a month.
WatchThere are no words to describe this…
Supermarket of Optimism and awesomeness. →
New York designer Reed Seifer’s online store of optimistic and otherwise amazing items.
Art of the title →
“Remember when your heart sank just a little when you realized the Pink Panther movie wasn’t a cartoon? Then, only a few years later, seeing Edward Gorey’s eerily fantastic opening to “Mystery!” capped with Vincent Price’s name on a headstone had your head spinning at the thought of the kind of stories those etchings could tell…if only the show was based on those illustrations. Well, we...
BARCODE PLANTAGE →
plant a barcode
GOOD » Route Down» →
Guerrilla tactics in Toronto for bike lanes
Elaine Charal: Handwriting for Business Blog →
poster public project on the Behance Network →
GOOD » Crisis in Canada! Seriously →
Guys, whats happening up there? I hope our governmental woes haven’t been outsourced.
The Top 10 Everything of 2008 - TIME →
Map of the Market at SmartMoney.com →
Realish time graphic for American Markets according to sector related to gains and loses…today is pretty green.
“To create change, you need to reach out to those who don’t already agree with...”
– Preaching to the choir is a waste of time - (37signals)
“Powerful moments of elevation sometimes seem to push a mental ‘reset...”
– How Obama tapped into a powerful—and only recently studied—human emotion called “elevation.” - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
Better x Design: IDEO and Bruce Mau Design |... →
Cheers to PLI for the Love Blog Nod
DoodleBuzz:Typographic News Explorer
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DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories.
Does the web really need yet another news aggregator? In many ways the answer to this question is undoubtably no. But DoodleBuzz was born out of an idea to create an entirely new way of exploring information - one that allows for a kind of “quiet...
