Bookmarks for February 19, 2015
- Syllabus | MAS S66: Indistinguishable From… Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition
I would sell a kidney to attend this class.
Tag: design
Bookmarks for January 15, 2015
- Infovore » Putting the nuclear option front-and-centre
Nice bit of thinking here. Some kind of "pause" function for a lot of the commercial lists I have wound up on would be great.
Bookmarks for October 27, 2014
- The Open-Office Trap – The New Yorker
I absolutely loathe open plan offices. I have never been more productive than in the brief, halcyon period early my career where I had my own office. Or, I guess, when I work from home. Both of these things enable me to manage the terms on which I engage with colleague's requests for help. (Which isn't to suggest I don't wish to enage, merely that I want to do it in a planned and productive manner, not to be forced into it by someone saying my name…)
- TOMW8S – 'Donkey Kong Variations' | Buddy Peace
8-bit remix of Tom Waits classic Mule Variations. Really interesting to hear Waits stuff done like this.
Bookmarks for May 20, 2014
- Pixel Track | Berg Blog
This strikes me as very, very interesting. Signage with a very low on-site requirement, but extremely high network power.
Bookmarks for May 13, 2014
- Matthew Irvine Brown » Little Printer
"New British Modern". Or, put another way: a great many of my favourite things rolled up into one. I recently wrapped up a (completely unrelated, absolutely nothing to do with technology) project that was drawing on a similar aesthetic, and reading this has got me thinking about how I'd put a similar set of notes together for a moodboard/design manual for the next one.
Bookmarks for February 17, 2014
- Kintsugi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Found this via Del. Brilliant and fascinating concept, the idea of using repair to add value and even beauty to damaged things.
- An Exciting Announcement | Newspaper Club
Newspaper club are now doing a PoD service. This is the proper interesting. OK, it's not terribly cheap, but as a notionally interesting object, a 24 page newspaper for a fiver seems saleable to me.
Bookmarks for June 14, 2013
- Using Metadata to find Paul Revere – Kieran Healy
In the terribly unlikely even that anyone reading this isn't worried about PRISM, metadata gathering, or the general sense that there's an enormous surveillance state out there that is not your friend, I encourage you to read this.
- Map Stack by Stamen
This was closed when I went to look at it, so this is a note to remember to look at it properly, because I love their maps -= particularly their toner map in hard B&W. Also, interested in the idea of a web app with opening hours. I quite like it.
Bookmarks for June 6, 2013
- Cooking up an Office Dashboard Pi — GoCardless Blog
I'm more interested in this for home than office, but this will point me in correct directions
- Alan Fletcher Archive
An archive of the man's works and career, with commentary by friends and contemporaries. Fascinating stuff.
Bookmarks for May 31, 2013
- Designing blogs for readers – Matt Gemmell
I am optimistically hoping to move to a new blogging platform before the end of the year. (I may wind up remaining with wordpress a while longer, but a move is at least on the cards.) As part of the move, I'd like to give myself a custom design, and I want to refer back to this post when I come up with it.
Bookmarks for April 23, 2013
- Kill it With Fire: why Gamification sucks and Game Dynamics rule | Philip Trippenbach
An excellent short essay on the difference between "Gamification" and actual, y'know, *fun*.