NovemberNov 27 Friday 09
Permiera ∞
I don't know what to call them, but I'm a sucker for this style of sort of pseudo-slab-serifs.
NovemberNov 25 Wednesday 09
Pie Guy ∞
Neven Mrgan made an awesome game just for WebKit with 8-bit graphics and responsive touch controls. I'm going to tear this apart.
NovemberNov 23 Monday 09
The Running Man: behind the sketchbooks of Adam Saltsman's Canabalt ∞
This is amazing, I love getting a glimpse into the development of really well-executed ideas.
NovemberNov 18 Wednesday 09
Stop Being a Wuss: How To Make Pie Crusts the Easy Way ∞
Noted for future reference.
NovemberNov 17 Tuesday 09
Placebo Serif ∞
This is a really nice font. Used in the beautiful new "We Feel Fine" book.
NovemberNov 12 Thursday 09
We Feel Fine Book ∞
The original project was great, but this book is downright beautiful.
NovemberNov 10 Tuesday 09
“Robin Sloan decided…” ∞
My friend Robin's Kickstarter project got a nice writeup in the SF Chronicle, complete with a geektastic coffeeshop laptop portrait.
The future of media? Bet on events ∞
"TED is an act of recitation: smart people stand on stage and explain the amazing things they’ve been up to. Phoot Camp was an act of creation: things came into the world that would not have otherwise."
NovemberNov 3 Tuesday 09
John H. Richardson's Timeline of Obama's First Year ∞
"So the question, a year since we elected him, isn't how much Obama has accomplished. The question is why we've turned so small and mean that we only see half of it — the half we happen to agree with."
Put This On ∞
Lovely site, and a nicely done web video series about clothes.
NovemberNov 2 Monday 09
Why do we have an IMG element? ∞
Fascinating post from Mark Pilgrim referencing early mailing list conversations about the IMG element in HTML
OctoberOct 16 Friday 09
Storybird - Collaborative storytelling ∞
What a great idea. Browse "story art" from illustrators and put them together with your own words to create a story to share.
OctoberOct 14 Wednesday 09
Teaching the Overdetermined Image ∞
Talking about teaching intentional images with comic books. This is great stuff.
Wall Street Smarts ∞
“The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.”
OctoberOct 8 Thursday 09
The Art and Motion of The Beatles: Rock Band ∞
All of the artwork and animations from the game are astonishingly beautiful. I didn't know until reading this that MK12 (in Kansas City) did the interstitial animations for the story mode.
SeptemberSep 29 Tuesday 09
Working hard is overrated ∞
Caterina Fake: "Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."
SeptemberSep 24 Thursday 09
Film the Blanks ∞
Lovely project dedicated to reworking film posters by simplifying the imagery and blanking the text. Really interesting results.
SeptemberSep 23 Wednesday 09
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good ∞
This is an excellent talk, full of good chunks of insight.
Arlo/Artists Spotlight: Robert Josiah Bingaman ∞
Justine Chausson talks to my friend Rob about his paintings, which are excellent.
SeptemberSep 15 Tuesday 09
Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice - They Don't Need It ∞
The question is not “what should newspapers do?” but “how can a large institution effectively organize in response to disruptive change?”