Next to design, my most passionate interest has to be music. I listen to music as much as I can and always enjoy recommending new music to others. In the last month or so I have been hearing some great new stuff that I wanted to share, so I thought I would assemble a list [...]
Regular readers will remember that in October I mentioned I was going to be making some changes to my blog. Since then I have been thinking about and exploring some options and am now pretty close to moving into this so-called “new phase”. Without further ado, I present you with some ideas I hope will [...]
The New York Times has a slideshow of Olafur Elliasson’s waterfalls in New York, including the one under the Brooklyn Bridge.
“The New York City Waterfalls” is a public art project of four man-made waterfalls rising from New York Harbor, some as high as the Statue of Liberty. Organized by the nonprofit Public Art Fund and [...]
Rachel Hinman of Adaptive Path recently began her “90 Mobiles in 90 Days” project. This rapid form of brainstorming/iteration/prototyping is exactly what I was trying to do when I began my Twitter “Idea Log“. Glad to see she is having more success than I did.
For the 90 days following today, June 20, 2008, I’m going [...]
I stumbled on the space collective today and posted it on designboom. The gallery is an amazing collection of images. The curated selection of images and links is so refreshing compared to the same info graphics and black and white photos on ffffound. The format would work so well for a blog. It also reminds [...]
The idea of play is becoming more and more integrated into products and services of functional value (ie. work). It is often used as an added value or as a source of inspiration and guide. These things add play where it wouldn’t traditionally be. What if instead of adding play into work, we transform play [...]
Kevin Kelly and Brain Eno’s ‘list of unthinkable futures’ was published 15 years ago in the Summer, 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review. Great example of scenario planning, predicting the absurdity of the future and having it come true.
A new type of artist arises: someone whose task is to gather together existing but overlooked [...]
The statistical photography of Chris Jordan is mesmerizing to look at. In his TED talk from this year’s conference he points out that his goal with the photographs is to transform statistics into visuals in order to have people “feel” the issues he represents. His words definitely add another dimension to his work.
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(via PSFK)
I realized that industry monopolies tend to be examined primarily from a business perspective. It is definitely the most logical way to frame this kind of issue but when I started to think about it, it shouldn’t be the only way.
Mike Arrignton wonders if the game is up for Google. “This may be the year [...]
I was flipping through Icon Magazine and found this interesting definition under “isms” for the 21st century.
Neroism
Rather than solving our problems, design is killing us. Architects and designers no longer provide for our needs but for our wants, fuelling the inferno of human consumption that is overwhelming the planet’s life-support systems.
Yet our collective fear of [...]
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