Category Archives: Design
Google Maps by Niemann
maps.google.com is the vocabulary for Niemann – some nifty stuff here: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/my-way/
2010 Winter Olympics on NBC – Fail
what a mess.
NPR shares our frustration.
And I quote, since I live in LA, “West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever “live” coverage there actually is in prime time, even though they are in the time zone where the Olympics actually are. What this means [...]
Field – Experimental Code and Art
Love this:
http://www.openendedgroup.com/field/
Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind:
Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and pristine code utopia, [...]
Web Dev Icons
Some useful stuff here:
http://speckyboy.com/2009/12/21/the-top-50-web-development-icon-sets-from-2009/
to be nobody but your self
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156
http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm
ProtoDojo’s Nintendo Controller Secure USB Drive
My pal Joven, over at ProtoDojo has been at it again, this time creating a secure Nintendo USB drive. Now THAT is a USB drive.
He writes about his motivation, “When cleaning out the garage a few weeks ago, I found my original Nintendo Entertainment System. Rather than sell it on ebay, I decided to do [...]
Value of Front End Developers & the Web
Paul Carvill, a uk based web developer, interaction designer, user experience expert and information architect has a nice post on his blog about the role and value of the front-end developer:
http://www.paulcarvill.com/2009/09/why-front-end-developers-are-so-important-to-the-future-of-businesses-on-the-web/
Grasshopper Graphical Algorithm Editor
Awesome generative modeling for Rhino3d. It’s for designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms.
Grasshopper is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools.
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/
Realtime Firefox 3.5 Downloads
Have you downloaded 3.5 yet? Watch the downloads in a sparkline type graph in realtime.
http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/
Street Art
http://jalopnik.com/5137364/roadsworth-street-art-painted-on-actual-streets