Category Archives: Blog

Gustav is Coming

Check out MSNBC’s hurricane tracker built by Stamen.

Lushpad

Lushpad is a unique online marketplace and resource that is intended to provide a service that has been missing from the collecting community since Modern design crossed the threshold from everyday to vintage a few years ago. Authentic originals, licensed originals and unlicensed lookalikes all vie for our attention. Lushpad hopes to clear through the…

More Insight Into the Palin Decision

(via Crooks and Liars)
It seems to have been one or all of three: 1) a vain attempt to convince Hillary supporters that the should think with their vaginas in the same way men like McCain think with their penises, 2) to shore up McCain’s standing with the abortion/hangin’/guns loving and science/polar bear cub hating base, 3) an…

On The Leading Edge, or Falling Down?

Audi just developed an iPhone App promoting the new A4. Its top-scrolling driving game they claim they brought the game to market in 2 weeks from concept to completion. It shows. The experience feels cheap and runs counter to the actual driving experience of an Audi A4, which is amazing (disclaimer: I LOVE Audi/VW and…

Mozilla Ubiquity

I saw this on piecemaker. It’s fresh. the thing that I love most about it is that they’re thinking along the lines of making the browser the central control-point for web 2.0 functionality. Moving into the cloud… I love it. Now MzLabs has to bring this to mobile computing with precise location-specific data and we’re…

Great Daily Show Billboard

…for the Republican Convention. The billboard is located outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport:

Slate Looks at Data Visualization

This art form is making inroads at universities and on the Web, and it has gained currency in tech and design circles. It has inspired some press and a handful of shows, and has featured in minor ways in museum exhibitions, in particular the Museum of Modern Art’s “Design and the Elastic Mind” show earlier…

Eduardo Recife Still Killing It

Eduardo Recife is back with another installment of Misprinted Type. Once again his rich, textural work is engrossing and draws you into his world. Love it.
If you haven’t already downloaded his Photoshop Brushes and Vector Packs, please do so (under “Goodies”) – they’re a must-have for any digital artist.

New David Byrne and Brian Eno Album

Go, listen, now.
Oh and Sagmeister Inc. designed the lyric booklet.

Jason Tozer’s Photography for CR

Amazing and beautiful, these images by Jason Tozer are other-worldly (and made with common bubble-soap).