New Google Search Refinement Tools
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They’re subtle, but they’re there. Google has finally realized that users need to be able to refine their search and manipulte the data-set they’re returned not just see one very long list. I’m currently working on Search/Research for a client and now that I see this through the lens of the requirements we’re working with - it’s a very long time coming. Good job Google, even if it is a couple years late.
Still Enjoying SF
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Still Enjoying SF, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
Enjoying PTO in SF
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Enjoying PTO in SF, originally uploaded by victor.brunetti.
Urban Design After the Age of Oil
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(via Archinect)
This ground-breaking symposium has been organized to address the role of urban design in the face of one of the most profound and important challenges facing global society: the need to re-imagine and rethink how cities are designed and organized in a future without the plentiful and abundant oil upon which prosperous urban economies have been built. Go
Serial Consign by Greg J. Smith
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I’m loving this guy’s blog lately and I encourage adding it to your Google Reader. Keep an eye on this one.
Outside of his own design research blog Serial Consign, Greg co-curates and edits the digital arts publication Vague Terrain and is a regular contributor to Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1. He has also written and edited for various publications and websites including Rhizome, View on Canadian Art, Textura and NewAssignment.Net.
VISUALIZAR’08
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How can we use the data visualization and information design resources to understand the processes governing contemporary cities and better manage them? What can we learn from studying traffic and pedestrian movement flows through the streets of Madrid? What would happen if we filled the streets with screens providing information updated each moment about water and electricity consumption?
Man if I were in Madrid I’d be there.
Also check out the Medialab-Prado site - looks like an awesome program.
IdN: We [heart] Infographics
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(thnx forz for pointing this out)
A lot of designers regard the practice of infographics as dull and boring — but this is almost certainly because they’ve never tried it. The 10 we spoke to, and whose work we’ve used to illustrate this feature, love what they do and believe it offers as big a challenge and as great a satisfaction as any other kind of design.
This issue is a must-have for today’s designer/scientist. Go buy one.
Preventing Future Beach-balls
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“Shit the beach-ball!” I exclaimed. “I ‘got it too”, I heard from across the studio.
We might as well brew a pot of coffee - we’ll be here a while.
Adobe has made great strides in recent years to eliminate application crashes in their Mac suite of applications. Remember running CS/CS2 in Rosetta and Illustrator simply shutting off when you used the pathfinder - and viola you’re back at the desktop and out an hour of work because you forgot to Apple-S? Ya well Adobe on Macs is about where it was on PCs under CS1 - your machine will think really hard for a really long time - you may lose fidelity in your OS GUI - meaning some panels will go white and not refresh until Adobe is done thinking - but 99 times out of 100, if you wait long enough, the application will recover.
Back to the studio…
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The Work of Pitch Interactive
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Pitch Interactive, from Madison Wisconsin does some really nice Data Visualization work. The above image is from a spread they had in Esquire Magazine (the issue with the E-Ink on the cover). Check them out.
I’m In This Book
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Although I’m not attributed :-/ Season of Surprises is on p.286
Natzke has Prints For Sale
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More Christmas gift ideas for Victor. Go buy me one of those too :)
Joshua Davis Designed Shoulder Bags
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Anyone looking for a Christmas gift for me this year need look no further. I also love the pocket notebooks. Go buy me one.
Cloud Computing Talk
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Been meaning to get this up for everyone:
My talk on cloud computing. Enjoy.
A Brief Message
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A Brief Message features design opinions expressed in short form. Somewhere between critiques and manifestos, between wordy and skimpy, Brief Messages are viewpoints on design in the real world. They’re pithy, provocative and short — 200 words or less.
A brief message about the benefit of constraints in the digital medium;
You can’t have art without resistance in the materials. - William Morris
Greetings From Chicago
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Mind08
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Taking a page from the TED Conferences, Seed Magazine and the MOMA have turned their Design and the Elastic Mind show into a series of symposia. The following is one of the videos they have posted:
The great thing about the momentum Seed has built with the MOMA around this initiative is the underlying thesis for these endeavors, which is science ad design are inextricably linked. And both are servicing a new and radical way of understanding and visualizing the world. It’s a good time to be a designer/scientist :)
Anyone Going?
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MAX 2008 North America
San Francisco, California — November 16 - 19, 2008
Design Archive of the 1972 Munich Olympics
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Otto Aicher was the man behind the work. View the archive here.
2001 Google
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To commemorate their 10th anniversary, the folks over at google have put their site and search database live exactly as it was in 2001. Try it - it’s exactly the same. The biggest thing for me though is all of the links are dead. I found the search results interesting in a time-capsule sort of way, but couldn’t continue my trip down memory lane because none of the click-throuhgs worked. Such a reminder of the temporality of the work we create for this business…
The President is “Very Disappointed”
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Upon hearing the bailout failed to pass in the house:
A White House spokesman said that President Bush was “very disappointed.”
“There’s no question that the country is facing a difficult crisis that needs to be addressed,” Tony Fratto told reporters. He said the president will be meeting with members of his team later in the day “to determine next steps.”
This fuckin’ guy didn’t determine “next steps” BEFORE the vote? Contingency plans weren’t discussed? What does this man DO all day?
Update: Bush added,
“Our strategy is to continue to address this economic situation head on. We’ll be working to develop a strategy,”
How recursive.
