“As an engineer, nothing infuriates me more than hearing a designer talk about something as…
“As an engineer, nothing infuriates me more than hearing a designer talk about something as “an engineering problem”. You absolute bastard. Why are you designing something that you aren’t even sure will work? Why bother opening Photoshop if what you’re producing is little more than a fantasy-world mockup?”
A great article about how designers and coders work together.
How to win a fight against twenty children ”Whether you’re a good man who was in the wrong…
How to win a fight against twenty children ”Whether you’re a good man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or a dangerous maniac…” (via Matt)
Insane and insanely cool Super Mario scarf project.
Insane and insanely cool Super Mario scarf project.
Really creative ligatures in a new VW campaign, meant to demonstrate their smooth-shifting…
Really creative ligatures in a new VW campaign, meant to demonstrate their smooth-shifting electronic transmissions. An excellent example that simple, minimal design can also be very exciting and effective. (via ilovetypography)
Absolutely pathetic advice from the Wall Street Journal on How to Create a Successful Web Site For…
Absolutely pathetic advice from the Wall Street Journal on How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing). I love how the author refers to HTML as “essentially, a bunch of gobbledygook words and symbols” and adding a shopping cart to your site as an additional “flourish”. Totally clueless.
Record Notebooks in Tokyo!
Thanks so much to Tokyo’s Dance Music Records for being super nice and sending me pictures of Reware Vintage’s Record Notebooks on display in their store!
New handmade radness
I love handmade bags. Unfortunately, most of my handmade purses are…not handmade by me. I have yards and yards of cool vintage material I pick up in all sorts of different places with every intention of one day making something from it, but rarely ever find the time. Usually when I do make something, it is with the intention of selling it to someone else. Yesterday I had the rare occasion of not really having to do anything all day, so I decided it was time to make use of some of that fabric for myself!
This was a terribly awful wall hanging of…well, we haven’t quite determined what this supposed to be. Elk? Deer? Caribou? Something like that. I wish I would have taken a picture of it before I started to show it’s crazy ugliness. It was fake velvety material, and the thing was so tacky I just had to buy it. It screamed “Make me into a bag!”.
I framed a close up deer-like animal for one side of the bag, and the grazing deer-like animals for the other side. The whole wall hanging was trimmed in a repeating patterned edging, which worked perfectly for the shoulder strap. I couldn’t decide which side to make the front and which to make the back, so I made it reversible with a tab that fits over the top and buttons on both sides to close the bag!
I backed the material with interfacing to make sure it would stand up to my abuse and I lined it with a brown-black marbled cotton, and made several pockets to better organize all the needless things I always jam into my purses.
Four months of the material laying on my shelf, four hours to make my new favorite purse. Totally worth it.
fyi.gmblogs.com
Just launched the redesign of GM’s FYI Blog: A Josh Weston/Matt Mayers/Dan Nixon/MS&L Digital joint.
Xiu Xiu - Boy Soprano
I know I’m just posting music videos lately, but whatever…
A fantastic video for anyone who had a Sega Genesis. Don’t know how this band slipped by me. I think I’d like to go check them out at the Crofoot next month.
How did I miss this? Karate Explosion. (via Matt)
How did I miss this? Karate Explosion. (via Matt)
Redesigned for no good reason
All right, for the thousands of you that only read this site via RSS (Hi, all five of you!), it’s time to have another look at Turbo Claw in your favorite browser (unless your favorite browser begins with “Internet Explorer”, which I can’t even be bothered to test in… unless I’m on the clock, of course!).
The new design, “3D!”, is a purely CSS-only redesign, Zen Garden style; I didn’t touch the markup a bit. As such, it’s not much more than fast-forwarding the old design a bit, rather than a total facelift.
Anyway, like it or not, blah, blah, blah… A style switcher is the next project.
Dan’s Sweet-Sweet-Ass Summer Jam Mix, Track #2:
The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart
In honor of their show tonight at the Stick, this week’s summer jam selection is Junior Kickstart by The Go! Team.
Download The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart (mp3, 5.6 MB)
“Ten years ago, a man wearing a plain V-neck tee and drinking a Pabst would never be accused of being…”
“Ten years ago, a man wearing a plain V-neck tee and drinking a Pabst would never be accused of being a trend-follower. But in 2008, such things have become shameless clichés of a class of individuals that seek to escape their own wealth and privilege by immersing themselves in the aesthetic of the working class.”
“we should befriend a powerful gang”
“we should befriend a powerful gang”
- Josh Weston, on the subject of skating in Detroit
