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likeafieldmouse: Hillerbrand & Magsamen – Comfort (2013)
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seedtoshirt: Miami, Florida – The cargo ship that carried our women’s tee from Cartagena, Colombia just pulled in! (Eric Helton/NPR)
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dbreunig: Good question asked by HIlary Mason, pointed out by Whitney McNamara. I could not agree more with the sentiment: for all non-engineers learning to code should be approached not as trade education but as a component of a rounded education. The goal here isn’t writing code for production but learning how to talk, think,…
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mymodernmet: The Fallen by Andy Moss and Jamie Wardley 9,000 drawings of human silhouettes along the sandy shores of Arromanche in France in honor of International Peace Day (September 21) and as a way to remember what happens in the absence of that peace.
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theatlantic: The ‘Little Traffic Light Man’ That Could BERLIN — Perhaps motivated by his Communist surroundings, East German traffic psychologist Karl Peglau wanted a pedestrian traffic light for the proletariat. Everyone from the color-blind, to the elderly, to children uses sidewalks, he reasoned, so why not a “walk/don’t walk” symbol that makes sense to anyone—and,…
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The number one goal of the class is to expose students to the genre, and hopefully affect the way they think and create. Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the Media Lab, often says that if industry could eventually build an idea you’re working on, you’re not being ambitious enough and should stop. Science fiction illuminates…
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emergentdigitalpractices: This fall, MIT Media Lab researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner are teaching “Science Fiction to Science Fabrication,” aka “Pulp to Prototype,” a course that mines these “fantastic imaginings of the future” for analysis of our very real present. Over email, I asked Novy and Brueckner about the books they’ll be teaching, the inventions…
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Copyright “makes books disappear”; its expiration brings them back to life. The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic
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cinoh: mango © grijs
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youmightfindyourself: “The 4 Layers of Design”, part of a broader discussion of “The Dribbblisation of Design” written by Paul Adams Design is a multi layered process. In my experience, there is an optimal order to how you move through the layers. The simplest version of this is to think about four layers. I see designer…