Month: May 2011

  • marsbot: 4/28/11 A shield study Awhile back we decided to separate foursquare core badges with branded badges. We needed a new shape for the branded badges. After a thorough exploration we landed on this shape, but I became enamored with shield shapes in general. I love icons and there’s something really lovely about shields and the variety in which they…

  • nevver: Poem, Man Ray

  • Dangerous Minds | Do drummers have different brains from the rest of us?

    Dangerous Minds | Do drummers have different brains from the rest of us? Interlinked to longform ink and paper journalism. Human perception of time, neurology, rock and roll, the New Yorker, Brian Eno, millisecond scale. Fascinating.

  • twilmet123: ★ discovered on imgfave.com (social image bookmarking)

  • illillill: Larry Mantello’s Candy Coated World

  • jonathanmoore: Life, Below 600px I think it’s becoming clear to everyone—except those certain clients stuck in 2002—the fold no longer exists or is relevant.  If you’re not convinced read this article by Paddy Donnelly who makes the case that a build up to “the prize” at the bottom of a page is more effective than…

  • Wednesday, April 6, 2011 The Problem with Design Education Design—central to successful technologies—is too isolated from science education, argues design guru Don Norman. By David Talbot University industrial design programs are usually cloistered in schools of art or architecture, and students in such programs are rarely required to study science or technology. That bothers Don…