Pop Art Lesson in Recycling
Old School Pepsi Found another couple of cases of Pepsi Throwback at Target recently. I pulled the empty box from the recycle bin to show the kids what (terrible) Pop Art looks like. Add a little iPhone app fun and you get the following lame attempt at crossing lo-brow pop art with lo-mob photography filters. Warning: May induce vomiting and Mondrian-like hallucinations. Forgive... Read More
(Design) Lovers Mugs
We are lovers of coffee and lovers of good design. Go find your favorite color. Pantone Coffee Mugs Read More
Setlist HD for iPad
Setlist HD for iPad fills a pretty cool need – onstage display of setlists and lyrics. If you don’t know, a setlist is usually a dirty sheet of paper with song names hastily written out with a mostly dried-out Sharpie. Said sheet of paper is then taped near a performer’s floor pedals until it is rendered unreadable by the effects of spilled beer. In addition to... Read More
The Return of Futurama
Totino's Party PizzaFuturama is back! I am too tired to be watching television but I could not imagine going to sleep without watching the one hour season premiere. To make the experience complete, I found a Totino’s Pizza in freezer. I have no idea where it came from but so-horrible-it-is-kind-of-good pizza is a perfect match for mindless cartoons. Back in 1995, I remember... Read More
Flickr’s Improved Interface
For years, I have loved Flickr but hated its interface and navigation. These look to be improvements and time will tell if they are helpful. One thing I noticed right away was the great way that they showcase the new features and navigation. I invite you to click on over and play along — maybe you will spot the panda bear easter egg. Flickr's New Features Read More
Étude des Icônes
At the very last minute, with very little effort, I managed to procrastinate myself right into trying to collect examples of icons currently in use in Europe (specifically, in the city of Paris and CDG and FRA airports). My collected images total more than you see here but they were quite embarrassingly out of focus. I was trying to shoot photos on a moving subway. The locals had... Read More
Researching Paris (The Inspector)
The Inspector, copyright ©United Artists In 14 hours, I will be wheels-up and on my way to the home of the Awful Tower. That’s how our three-year old says, the Eiffel Tower. As this trip grew closer, I started to research all the hip clothing stores, monuments, food-mo-trons, and places to swim in wine. I honestly thought a brasserie was where they sell bras. Printed guides,... Read More
Les Miserable Web Experience
Take a look at the screen grab below. It was captured while trying to purchase tickets to see Les Miserables at a theater in Paris. Needless to say, the tickets were not purchased as there was simply no confidence in what we were buying (it appears tickets are sold in pairs, thus if a person bought ’2′ …) or even how we might receive the tickets. I’ve seen... Read More
Can’t. Stop. Watching. This.
I feel very compelled to build a French Fry cannon at the moment. Read More
Hack Day 2010
First, I’ll explain the concept of Hack Day for the uninitiated. But I’m far too lazy to do that when I can just cut and paste what is already online at my favorite site to learn stuff, Wikipedia: … the term became a more generally accepted description of an event where developers, designers and people with ideas gather to build ‘cool stuff’ … The... Read More
Does Barnes and Noble Think We’re Stupid?
Despite my better judgment, I purchased a membership at Barnes and Noble. It was during a time when I found myself in the store more often than usual and actually buying stuff instead of sipping coffee and treating the place like my local library. Now that I’ve been a member for about a year, I have learned that I don’t really benefit much from the membership since I... Read More
Big Design Conference
The Big Design Conference in Dallas, 28-29 May, is arguably the best value in Web design-related conferences. Register today to see nationally and regionally-recognized speakers and network your brains out. I’ll be speaking on usability testing but don’t let that deter you from attending. :) Big Design Conference Read More
Comparing the Apple vs. Microsoft Tablets
Size really does matter (Photo credit: Jeremy Johnson via Flickr). Size Matters in the Tablet World Read More
iPad Thai
According to Wikipedia, Pad Thai or Phat Thai (Thai: ผัดไทย, IPA: [pʰàt tʰāj], “fried Thai style”) is a dish of stir-fried rice noodles with eggs, fish sauce (Thai: น้ำปลา), tamarind juice, red chilli pepper, plus any combination of bean sprouts, shrimp, chicken, or tofu, garnished with crushed peanuts, coriander and lime, the juice of... Read More
iPad Release Day
In honor of iPad Release Day, I offer a host of free iPad Design Templates and Stencils collected by Emily Chang. Enjoy! Free iPad Design Templates and Stencils Read More
