Month: April 2011

  • bmdesign: Found this little doozy while going through some old presentations from the pre-BMD Love Blog days: Bob Levinson’s infamous Do This Or Die ad. Direct, honest, smart, no bullshit. The text from the ad has been copied below. Is this ad some kind of trick? No. But it could have been. And at exactly that point…

  • bmdesign: Found this little doozy while going through some old presentations from the pre-BMD Love Blog days: Bob Levinson’s infamous Do This Or Die ad. Direct, honest, smart, no bullshit. The text from the ad has been copied below. Is this ad some kind of trick? No. But it could have been. And at exactly that point…

  • purplexdoll: the purple one is so cute!

  • That’s one of the hardest things to do in comics: to create a character through which the reader can actually feel his or her own emotional memories. It’s much easier in a novel, but when you’re in a sort of half-blind state of looking at pictures on a page, you’re always being bounced back off…

  • That’s one of the hardest things to do in comics: to create a character through which the reader can actually feel his or her own emotional memories. It’s much easier in a novel, but when you’re in a sort of half-blind state of looking at pictures on a page, you’re always being bounced back off…

  • BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer): BYOB DENVER May 17th

    BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer): BYOB DENVER May 17th bringyourownbeamer: gif by Sterling Crispin  We are pleased to announce the Denver instance of the international exhibition series Bring Your Own Beamer. The premise of BYOB is to ask local media based artists to bring their own projectors to a physical location in order to showcase…

  • Ive is renowned for having an ‘alchemical’ sense for engineering, and the limits of what one can do with metal. As design expert Stephen Bayley puts it: ‘He thinks and thinks about what a product should be and then worries it into existence.’ (via Apple’s Jonathan Ive: How did a British polytechnic graduate become its…

  • Ive is renowned for having an ‘alchemical’ sense for engineering, and the limits of what one can do with metal. As design expert Stephen Bayley puts it: ‘He thinks and thinks about what a product should be and then worries it into existence.’ (via Apple’s Jonathan Ive: How did a British polytechnic graduate become its…

  • archiemcphee: Dragonfly Insectothopter Developed by CIA’s Office of Research and Development in the 1970s, this micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was the first flight of an insect-sized aerial vehicle (Insectothopter). It was an initiative to explore the concept of intelligence collection by miniaturized platforms. [via the CIA Flickr page]

  • While organizing information graphically for these more complex control panels, I also discovered a life-long fascination with psychology after we encountered the consumers’ resistance to touching the screens. Many research subjects recalled maternal admonishment about sitting too close to or touching their home TVs. That was a lesson that has lasted throughout my career–understanding and…