(I have a bug in my ear about a particular project that I’d sketched, kind of forgot about, rediscovered, and keep on revolving around to. Lucky you, you get to hear about it.)
Vladimir Nabokov wrote on index cards, and this enabled him to create wonderfully nonlinear books. One of my favorites is Pale Fire, a [...]
Jack Schulze and Matt Webb have been on fire, lately. They’ve got a new blog, Pulse Laser (after the classic C64 game Elite). And in the first week or so, they’ve managed to write a bunch of things that made my inner design geek stand up and wave its little antennae around.
(I envision my inner [...]
The Core 77 Design Blog has occupied a special spot in my Bloglines feed list for lo these many moons. Definitely the best place on the internets to find design snobbery, fun projects, blue foam, kinetic sculptures, eye candy, and more blue foam.
Besides, where else can you find Blu-Foam sneakers?
(Not that I can afford them. [...]
These things may have some relation to each other outside my fevered brain.
Throwing A Digital Shadow
Some thoughts perturbed from the silt at the bottom of the dark pond that is the mind of Warren Ellis, by way of the acquisition of his new, space-shuttle-controlling smartphone, the Nokia N71.
What interests me is less the idea that [...]
It’s not a secret that I’m somewhat obsessed with paper, barcodes, and digital shadows.
I’m a designer, rather than a programmer, and so I’ve often felt frustrated with my inability to actually produce some of the things I’ve waved my hands and blogged about. (The project linked above is one example of something I’d really dearly [...]
Aza Raskin can only think of one thing at a time.
And so can you.
Yes, you. Stop sneering, and give this a try…
Time yourself doing the following two actions: Spell aloud, letter by letter, “Jewelry is shiny” at the same time as you write your full name. Spell [...]
Warren Ellis has found my ramblings about his Digital Shadows Ministry column, where I blather about how a comic book could be used as a paper nexus to hold together world-building information, software to build more things like it, and a history of the project.
Thought I’d put up some links to more ideas along those [...]
Hm.
When I said I’d keep the noise level down, I didn’t mean, you know, silence.
Anyhow. Humanized is the interface design firm headed up by Aza Raskin, son of the late and lamented Jef Raskin.
And they have a blog.
You might want to check out their discussion of Moon Edit, a very neat-looking, server-hosted collaborative text editor [...]
Warren Ellis’ idea of comics with digital shadows could be a way to explore theory objects and design patterns.