I had the opportunity to visit the Rochester Institute of Technolgy’s Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival this past weekend. This annual campus-wide event showcases interactive presentations, demonstrations, exhibitions, and research projects by RIT students, faculty and staff. As an RIT alum, it’s an exciting if somewhat emotionally confusing experience. Roughly half the campus seems [...]
Last week I attended An Event Apart Boston, a conference put together by the folks behind A List Apart. The conference was two days of speaker sessions covering a variety of topics on web design, followed by a one-day practical workshop on HTML5/CSS3. The conference has been around for a few years, but this was [...]
Tibor Kalman was undoubtedly one of the greatest designers of all time. I was looking through my bookmarks today and came across this old interview that really inspired me when I was in school. It was conducted by Charlie Rose one year before Tibor’s death in 99 to cancer. Everyone should definitely check it out [...]
On a recent weekend trip to Baltimore, a friend introduced me to my new favorite place in the entire city —The Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc. Open Saturdays and Sundays from 9am to 6pm, The Book Thing is a space you can visit to pick up used books. For free! From the F.A.Q. section on [...]
When you’re eighteen, choosing where to go to college is a huge step and a small leap of faith. It’s a decision that impacts the rest of your life. It’s a financial investment. And in many cases, it’s hard to know which college or university to choose. So when Loyola University Maryland hired 160over90 to [...]
First off, thank you for all of your submissions to the 160over90 2010 Design Crutch Awards (sponsored by FFFFFFFOUND!!). We received more than 1200 entrants—our most ever! Our esteemed judges spent a weekend in Philly pouring over your work, and only trashed one room at the La Quinta. (John Maeda, check your fax for the [...]
