Intellectually rather than physically. That is. It no longer makes sense to have two blogs. All the tech/info design/geeky stuff that I’ve been involved in the past three months has been tied to my art, Jim’s photographs, or the small bits of the web for which I am the custodian. Making it most relevant to my more …
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Cooking and Design
John Maeda is one of my heroes. He’s taking a new job at RISD in June. In one of his blog posts at our.risd.org he had this to say: Also, some of the best artists and designers are great cooks. There is something to cooking that is not only inherently inventive, but also exemplifies the very …
no more polaroids
Boingboing Crunch Gear reported this morning the planned closure of the last plant to manufacture Polaroid “film”. We had a Polaroid instant camera when I was a kid. Instant pictures being of course a big hit with the munchkin crowd and then later messing about the emulsions and making “spooky” pictures being a hit with …
scrolling direction matters
I finally figured out what it is about the behavior of the new (vista) version of windows explorer that is odd. When you look at the folder contents in the right side pane, if there are more folders than will fit WE extends the list to the right (with a scroll bar on the bottom of …
Desiging for Mobility
I recently acquired a Blackberry Pearl. It’s a nice little device that doesn’t absolutely scream corporate whore but lets me carry around a lot of the essentials of my life in my (overloaded) purse. It also has perhaps the smallest screen in production on a device capable of truly accessing the web. While I love having …