Design
Syd Mead: Future Pastime
Opening today in San Francisco: an exhibition of the legendary futurist Syd Mead.
The M3 Electric
BMW is set to unveil their first ground-up electric M car in the next few weeks.
Faster than Luce
The Internet reacted faster than light to Ferrari’s debut of their first EV, the Luce.
Mobile will eat the branch
Where mobile money accounts outnumber bank accounts and where they will:
The Best Answer
I find yes/no questions incredibly useful as filters to help guide complex decisions.
Shiny Hammers
Shiny Hammers, from two talks I gave in October 2013—Optimal Experience in Wellington, New Zealand and the H2O Summit at LinkedIn HQ.
Good Design
Pretty gets you 30 seconds.
Hello
Drink from Concrete & Glass
Concrete + glass tumbler from 25togo.
WWSD?
It was all Caterina’s idea.
Post Rice + Fish
If Katamari Damacy, Chad Pugh and Edward Tufte had a baby:
Leaves and Twigs and Bits of Shit
(via Creative Review)
Push Poll
Le Grand Content
Bicycle Exhibition 2008
Beautiful, if impractical bicycle concepts from the 2008 Bicycle design show at Designhuis in Eindhoven.
Epic Shit, Minor Meme
This design, originally for Jay & Jen’s wedding, is now wearable.
CCCCONTRA
There are times when I wish you could favorite something multiple times.
Healthcare Century
(via swissmiss)
OpenID Logo Usage Guidelines
Created this back in May for the OpenID Foundation—not sure if it was ever released to the public.
With Apologies to Detroit Grand Poobahs
Filaments
& wind & wheels
Sincerity
I’m flattered.
Happy Akzidenz
Messing around with an older typeface recently, and it’s taught me a few new tricks.
Logo Mashups
Designer Mario Amaya’s hybridization of corporate marques.
I Know HTML
This one is for my homie Beau, who is the only guy I know who could pull it off:
The Twitter Ethic
Clément Gallet: 160 Characters
Best Cup of Coffee in New York
Congratulations to Jamie for his win:
I Like Your Face
Golden Cage
Walking out of the penumbra of the trainwreck that my love life has been for the past six months, it was nice to find this video from The Whitest Boy Alive,
Parkwheel
Star Wars vs Saul Bass — Borrowing Liberally from Monoscope
(via Monoscope)
Borrowing Liberally from Monoscope
(via Monoscope)
Je Kern
Typography in motion: Le Houellebecq by freemk.
Charles & Ray & Isamu & George
Because someone had to.
Monochrome Japanese Perspective Puzzles
I have a thing for purposeful monochromatic constructions, devices that simultaneously tickle my parietal and occipital lobes, Venn diagrams of precious little
First!!!
Mark FTW!
Design, Algorithms, Typography and Unicorns
Four FFFFOUND-worthy artists I admire who post their work on Flickr:
SPEND MONEY NOW
I think some people wanted this in wearable form.
Modernism + Local
Being in Europe—or in the most immediate case—London, brings a raft of memories of previous visits.
Abraço Business Card
OpenID Assets
OpenID Logo (PDF) Large Large (mono) Treatments Reduced Size Small Small (mono) Raster - 16x16 (favicon)
Graf
RobotsWillKill
iPhone Subway Map, Design
I went looking for an iPhone Subway Map, after having failed to assemble my own (in both PDF and 4K raster) and found this useful bit of kit from Khoi Vinh.
Michael Bierut on Typography
The Atlantic has a wonderful video of Michael Bierut talking about typography, with The Postal Service providing music.
Third Go Around
I’ve been displeased with certain aspects of the OpenID logo as it stands for a while.
East Village Redux
Comfortably ensconced in A + A’s Manhattan abode, between three brick walls, Raptor and Chelsea, nursing the remainder of my cold, listening to In Rainbows, I
is.ydnar.in
With a little help from my friends and some Dopplr I hacked out this magic 8-ball in the parlance of HTTP:
Netnanny?
Jay Allen reminded me of this 1996 block, trying to channel Irvine Welsh and Chuck Palahniuk.
Only 18 Shopping Days Left
Takayuki Senzaki’s Magical Origami
Hunting for EPS
…and found this.
Amazon Wishlist
The Beginning of the End of My Design Career
When I was a little kid, I wanted to be an architect or a filmmaker.
AIGA Symbol Signs - Just in Case
The Beginning of the End of My Game Design Career
This news post today regarding BioWare and LucasArts made me recall a phone conversation I had on the lawn outside AltaVista back in 2001.
CS3 Hackathon
Making this computer do the hard work.
Typos
Anagrams and inspriational art, rendered at 2K res for desktop love.
Countries’ Flags Get Creative Direction
Via Laughing Squid:
A long time ago...
…I used to design stuff.
MoCo LoCo
Because I’m into modern furniture, I find this [blog] utterly delicious.
About This Design
The design of this blog started out as a generic two-column-right template, modified using Custom CSS.
Flyers 2000-2004
Posted a bunch of old party flyers I designed 2000-2004.
TN-SL1200 Concorde Racing League (TM)
Eats, drinks, beats.
Optimal 4
Throwing another party this evening, at Sno-Drift in San Francisco.
Dirty Under Construction
I’ve been busy slicing up photos from New York and recent trips to Hunter’s Point here in SF for a couple more sets, New Jack City and Subway Series.
Shaderlab 1.1
By popular request, I have brightened up the text a bit.
Phear The Bot
Revised the site code a little today, adding a “narrow” item box and a little typographic cleanup.
Optimal
If you’re going to be in San Francisco on August 18, and like a little bit of that Detroit techno love, check this.