Archive for August 2007

links for 2007-08-17

In Links on 17 August 2007

50 manifestos on design, in icon magazine (tags: manifesto magazine icon design thinkers culture theory criticism) The Politics of Design The Politics of Design (tags: Design Business rand politics art psychology culture theory criticism)

links for 2007-08-16

In Links on 16 August 2007

Electrix: Virtual Repeater Pro (tags: music audio plugin media arts) O’Reilly Media — Bookstore: The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun (tags: innovation creativity ideas books reading design process)

links for 2007-08-15

In Links on 15 August 2007

Idea Generator (tags: generator creativity ideas inspiration fun idea writing novelty creative flash)

links for 2007-08-14

In Links on 14 August 2007

The Personal MBA Manifesto: Mastering Business Through Self-Education (Recommended Business Books) 2007 Edition: Revised and Updated (tags: business mba books learning education entrepreneurship management reading) Strategy by Design In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a [...]

links for 2007-08-13

In Links on 13 August 2007

What’s Your Sign? Slide show of the redesign of US highway sign typography (tags: typography design signs fonts traffic government font)

links for 2007-08-10

In Links on 10 August 2007

Boinx iStopMotion (tags: animation software video mac osx tools stopmotion creativity production movies multimedia) Kudlian Soft – I Can Animate I Can Animate has quickly established itself as the Stop Motion Animation tool for Mac OS X. (tags: animation software video mac education osx multimedia stopmotion) AnimAide XT Frame capture software for animation made for [...]

links for 2007-08-09

In Links on 9 August 2007

Using research to end visual design debates With the right visual design process, you can minimize the influence of subjectivity and guesswork. The first step to replacing subjectivity with sanity begins with research. (tags: design usability ux visualization personas methods process strategy research) 21 Tips on Keeping a Simple Home with Kids | zen habits [...]

links for 2007-08-08

In Links on 8 August 2007

…free your imagination… Species Discovered This Millennium, and Other Natural Wonders… (tags: animals biology science nature blog evolution species) brandon schauer discusses clearrx with deborah adler (tags: target design industrial product process marketing packaging usability UX experience)

Processing: Random font test 03

In Art, General on 8 August 2007 tagged animation, applet, blur, color, filter, fonts, Generative art, graphics, java, media-arts, open-source, processing, random, type, typography

Random font test 03 is my first foray into using text functions in Processing. Yes, I’m still working with procedural code. Eventually, I hope to get my head around true object oriented programming (OOP) for more interactivity and generative art goodness. Above and below are a few stills (click to enlarge), and here’s a short [...]

Short Bits

In Reviews on 7 August 2007 tagged Music, recommended

In case you haven’t noticed, I listen to scores of new releases (so you don’t have to) and pick out my favorites (for one reason or another). So, check out (won’t you?) these excellent releases from the first half of 2007 (part 2 of 2): Ghost Stories – Quixoticism The Good, The Bad and The [...]

Short Bits

In Reviews on 6 August 2007 tagged Music, recommended

Yes, I’ve been lax in keeping up with new album picks. Still, that’s no reason not to check out these excellent releases from the first half of 2007 (part 1 of 2): !!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Myth Takes Amandine – Solace In Sore Hands Amon Tobin – The Foley Room and Bloodstone (EP) Andrea [...]