January 28, 2010 • 12:38 am • POSTED BY Jim Walls
You: e-mail, iChat, add Greasemonkey to Firefox, send out Google Wave invites, edit code, write macros for Excel, add blog posts in WordPress, tweet, update Facebook, Photoshop images, design, mech layouts, obsessively organize typefaces, tag MP3s, subscribe to RSS feeds, download Breaking Bad torrents, fire up MacTheRipper, run VLC, run sudo, rebuild directories, comment to [...]
December 11, 2009 • 5:58 pm • POSTED BY ahartley
The end of the year is a big time for lists, and publications, and publications that make lists. It’s kind of like VH1, except instead of Carrot Top commenting on MC Hammer’s pants or how hot Brooke Shields was in the 1981 Calvin Klein campaign, we have a tweed-coated columnist telling us about the year’s [...]
December 1, 2009 • 1:43 pm • POSTED BY Margherita Urbani
I am sure some of you have heard or read about Thounds before. It is a social network where users can share music ideas by recording their inspiration and intuitions. I interviewed Francesco Fraioli, the creator and product manager. For those of you who need a refresh about Thounds, check out the video below.
To begin, [...]
September 23, 2009 • 10:51 am • POSTED BY mRaney
Working with type, I think it is always interesting to see how far letterforms can be forced before they become unreadable. Add too many details or abstract the form too much, and you have an unrecognizable mess. Rachel Young, of Goollery.org started from scratch and made her letterforms out of google maps. Presenting all sorts [...]
August 25, 2009 • 7:47 pm • POSTED BY Tammo Walter
While mobile phone readable QR (Quick Response) bar codes are widely used in advertising and public life throughout many Asian and European countries they are still fairly unknown and unused in the US. Unfortunately since the codes offer quick and easy connections to mobile content while somewhere on the go.
The 2D matrix bar codes [...]
June 30, 2009 • 11:41 am • POSTED BY tmuldoon
Fresh off of my most recent semester at Temple and my course in Consumer and Buyer Behavior, I have gained some insight into both the purpose and the importance of Brand communities in today’s world. As we all know, it is vital to stress the connection between a specific brand, individual identities as well as [...]
