Category: words

  • The New Pentagram.com

    The New Pentagram.com cameronmoll: I probably would have linked this up yesterday, but the site wouldn’t pull up from me — presumably due to all the traffic from the tweets about it. The latency is well-deserved. Their impressive portfolio is front and center, and there isn’t a lick of Flash as far as I can…

  • 15 Facts About Net Neutrality [Infographic]

  • 15 Facts About Net Neutrality [Infographic]

  • A lovely drift of a movie, “Go Go Tales” commands your attention even as it lulls you along. Conspicuously inspired by John Cassavetes’s “Killing of a Chinese Bookie,” among other touchstones, it is a sincere and inspired meditation on art and creation, but in a loose, funny key. Mr. Ferrara has called “Go Go Tales”…

  • A lovely drift of a movie, “Go Go Tales” commands your attention even as it lulls you along. Conspicuously inspired by John Cassavetes’s “Killing of a Chinese Bookie,” among other touchstones, it is a sincere and inspired meditation on art and creation, but in a loose, funny key. Mr. Ferrara has called “Go Go Tales”…

  • Fun (a programming language for the realtime web)

    Fun (a programming language for the realtime web)

  • Fun (a programming language for the realtime web)

    Fun (a programming language for the realtime web)

  • Design Fiction is very contemporary and tends to mix speculative objects, “diegetic prototypes,” mockups, group activities, futurist scenarios, drawings, animations, videos, interactions, and vaguely political “critical design” put-ons. Design Fiction has never been a linear, narrative, literary effort at fiction. *The role of writing in design-fiction is pretty much like tech-writing for other kinds of…

  • Design critic Rick Poynor asks “Where Is Art Now?”

    Design critic Rick Poynor asks “Where Is Art Now?” “I’m not part of the art world, but I studied art and I share some of its assumptions. I do believe the higher kind of art exists. It grips and fascinates me. There are few things I enjoy more than looking at art in museums and…

  • Somehow, if we are committed to the idea of quality, if this remains a culturally meaningful goal — does it? — then we need to strike a balance between the social aim of greater participation and a continuing faith in the critical ideal that great things are still possible for those with the drive, dedication,…