Event Review: What is Good Design Now?
Friday, den 27. March 2009
Last night, VW and Slate.com hosted a night of design discussion at the New York Museum of Art & Design. On the panel were Paula Scher- Graphic Designer and Parter at Pentagram, Ahmad Sardar-Afkhami- Architect, and Jonathan Adler– Furniture Designer. The discussion centered around how design is being affected by and adapting to today’s challenges.
Paula Scher who is the first professional graphic designer to have a seat on the New York City Arts Commission talked about the challenges to designing parks in NYC. Although the Arts Commission does review city… Continue reading Event Review: What is Good Design Now?
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How Walkable is Your Neighborhood?
Friday, den 27. March 2009
Walk Score is a handy web-service that approximates the walkability of addresses and neighborhoods in the 40 largest cities in the US using an alogrithm - you can read about their entire methodology here - that takes into consideration proximity to stores, schools, parks and restaurants while weighing this information against the need for a car. With that in mind, their list of the top ten most walkable cities looks like this:
1. San Francisco
2. New York
3. Boston
4. Chicago
5. Philadelphia
6. Seattle
7. Washington, D.C.
8. Long Beach, Calif.
9. Los… Continue reading How Walkable is Your Neighborhood?
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Wheat Paste Jesus Attracts Religious Pilgrims
Friday, den 27. March 2009
Wooster Collective points out a powerful example of street art that has caused quite a commotion in New England. Artist Maki105 put up a wheat-paste poster titled “Peek-A-Boo Jesus” on the side of a video store in New Bedford Massachusetts, and it’s getting a lot of serious attention by religious pilgrims.
The Boston Herald reports:
Tears welled up in Angela Sampaio’s eyes as she beheld the Lund’s Corner Jesus through… Continue reading Wheat Paste Jesus Attracts Religious Pilgrims
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Remixing Paranoid Propaganda
Friday, den 27. March 2009Boing Boing had an image remix challenge this week that tackled the over-the-top “anti-terrorism” posters created by the London police. The paranoia inducing ad campaign got a very funny remixing by the blog’s readers.
The Original:
The Remixes:
Boing Boing has a bunch more here
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Online Project in UK Could Expand Your Family Tree
Friday, den 27. March 2009
In what is being called the biggest undertaking of its kind, UK-based genealogy website ancestry.co.uk is embarking on an ambitious project to make more than 77 million historical documents available online. The digital collection will archive information that had previously been scattered across the city of London, into a single database that users can access for a fee. The wide variety of sources include parish registers, wills, land deeds and school records, painting a comprehensive portrait of daily life in London that dates back nearly 400 years. Beyond its… Continue reading Online Project in UK Could Expand Your Family Tree
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Digital Textbooks to Complement Your Online Education
Friday, den 27. March 2009
We’ve written about a variety of learning tools that have been popping up on the web in recent months from institutional examples like Academic Earth and iTunes University to more grassroots models like Moontoast and the School of Everything, causing us to rethink the ways we view the availability and cost of education. And while these online alternatives are freeing knowledge from the confines of the classroom, we’re not ready to call traditional college educations obsolete, for the time being at least. Which is… Continue reading Digital Textbooks to Complement Your Online Education
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3 Topics For Designers At PSFK Conference NYC
Friday, den 27. March 2009
Still considering whether to buy that ticket to PSFK Conference NYC next week? If you work at a brand or corporation here are three topics on the agenda that should be very inspirational for you (although I think they all will be, to be honest):
PANEL: RECONNECT
David Pinter (PSFK) leads a panel as it looks at how sustainable, economic and social conscience are driving the design of new products and services. Panel includes senior experts across industries including Sarah Beatty (Green Depot), Simon Collins (Parsons), Ryan Jacoby (IDEO)… Continue reading 3 Topics For Designers At PSFK Conference NYC
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Wieden Kennedy’s Nokia Competition Shows That Crowdsourcing Sucks For The Crowd
Friday, den 27. March 2009
The recent headphone competition that was run by Nokia by the London office of the advertising agency Wieden Kennedy highlights how much the odds seem stacked against creatives who participate in crowsdsourcing. After receiving entries from creatives with designs of headphones inspired by a favorite track, one of the top prizes was awarded to a designer that works both for Nokia and Wieden Kennedy - an action that specifically goes against the rules of the competition.
There… Continue reading Wieden Kennedy’s Nokia Competition Shows That Crowdsourcing Sucks For The Crowd
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Using Bio-Feedback to Customise Amusement Park Rides
Friday, den 27. March 2009Engineers in the UK are working on a “fear detector” that will make amusement park rides tailored to the level of excitement riders want to experience. A video below shows more.
New Scientist explains:
A human operator can see a person’s heartbeat and facial expression and hear their reaction via a display, and use that information to control the motion of the ride.
The team is studying how the physiological data correlates with the emotions a person reports experiencing during a ride. Knowing how to tell when a person is having fun, bored or fearing for their life could make it possible to… Continue reading Using Bio-Feedback to Customise Amusement Park Rides
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Pic: British Mining-Town In China
Friday, den 27. March 2009
This ‘British Style Residential Community’ was built in the 1940s was created for 35 families who lived by the Jiayang coal mine in China.
More photos here.…
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