design

Shepard Fairey nails it again

April 15, 2008

How excellent are his covers for 1984 and Animal Farm (2 of the most memorable books I read during my childhood)?

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Real-time train data visualization! (in Switzerland)

January 21, 2008

Throughout our time at ITP, there were a variety of projects (SubAlerts, represent!) that seemed to long for access to real-time train information in order to give it back to users. Well the Swiss have launched a super cool alpha version of a train visualization interface thanks to Google Maps. Live Swiss Train map (Thanks, [...]

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White Folks’ Guide to the NYC Subway System

January 14, 2008

Clever. – Gothamist

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Obama: A Logo for Every Occaision

January 9, 2008

To follow up on our post yesterday comparing the branding and logos of the various candidates, here’s a deeper dive into the robust visual identity of the Obama campaign.

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A design analysis: What's in a candidate's logo?

January 8, 2008

I had been looking around for a study on the way each of the candidates approach their brand + logo design and luckily I just found a bunch! – Presidential Brand Blog – This is probably the most complete. Is it really that difficult to guess where Huckabee’s stars are coming from? (the graphic bleed [...]

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Little Face

May 9, 2007

TOAD: May 8th, 2007: This is a shot of one of the many exhibits from the Spring 2007 ITP show. Karen and I swung by for Opening Night and left satisfied and exhausted (in a good way!) Check out a bunch of other photos form the show and if you didn’t go and are reading [...]

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Derby Spoils

May 6, 2007

TOAD: May 5th, 2007: Saturday was Derby day and Karen and I continued our tradition of going to Floyd to watch the race. We got there about an hour before post time so I had plenty of time for my customary Mint Julep (SUPER sweet this year) and a slice of Derby Pie (a pecan, [...]

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February is create-a-thing-a-day month!

January 31, 2007

Over the last few weeks the ITP Alumni list has been fluttering on about February being create-a-thing-a-day month. Apparently one of Ze Frank’s classes did it last year at this time and everyone was raving about what a great experience they had with the project. So, I think I am going to give it a [...]

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One of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while

November 1, 2006

Someone built a Minesweeper window entirely out of PixelBlocks. Totally surreal. (it took 38,240 blocks and stands over 6 feet tall)

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Projects like this make me miss grad school

September 29, 2006

A “camera” that records the exact moment you triggered the shutter and when you go to “download” your photos, it searches online to find a photo that was taken by someone, somewhere, at the exact same time.

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