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To help readers get an idea of the likely worth of each, I started rating these links in Jan 2005. Five stars means it’s an absolute must-see. One star means it’s probably of interest only to me. I’ll be the first to admit: it’s a completely arbitrary system.
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50 Latest Additions
Cooper-Hewitt 2008 National Design Awards Winners Announced
Congratulations to Michael Bierut and Scott Stowell, among others.
NYT: Primary Pen & Ink, Raleigh, N.C.
Reporter Campbell Robertson’s comics from the North Carolina primary.
Start Here
“Linkable notebooks and accessories.” Exquisite paper products from my friend Tina Chang.
Digital Motion Detection Cameras
Shots triggered by motion sensor. Via Photojojo’s Mother’s Day Gift Guide.
Designing Record Sleeves for Spiritualized
Interview with band leader Jason Pierce and designer Mark Farrow discussing the beautiful packaging they’ve worked on together for the band’s past decade of releases.
NYT: BlackBerry’s Quest to Fend Off the iPhone
“Since the iPhone went on sale last summer, amid long lines of shoppers and media adulation, the contours of the smartphone market have begun to shift rapidly toward consumers… R.I.M., which has historically viewed big corporations and wireless carriers as its bedrock customers, needs to alter its DNA in a hurry.”
We All Hate Quickbooks, Do You?
Cleverly designed marketing site from LessAccounting, cited by Dan Cederholm as a nice example of parallax scrolling.
TechCrunch: Is Keyword Search About to Hit Its Breaking Point?
An overview of an excellent presentation by Nova Spivack.
NYT: Profile of Stern Pinball Inc.
“A range of companies once mass produced pinball machines, especially in the Chicago area, the one-time capital of the business. Now there is only Stern. And even the dinging and flipping here has slowed: Stern, which used to crank out 27,000 pinball machines each year, is down to around 10,000.”
Rejected Book Covers
Klas Ernflo’s stunningly beautiful but torpedoed designs for a series focusing on classic artists. Via Aisle One.
Art Directors Club: Young Guns 6 Now Open for Entries
“Entrants must be 30 years of age or younger and must have been working professionally for at least 2 years (both full-time and freelance work qualify). Entrants can submit both professional and personal, unpublished work. Fifty new ADC Young Guns will be chosen.”
Port Map and TCMPortMapper
Graphical interface for opening up ports on your home network so that they might be accessed remotely.
A British MP Calls for Reasserting Photographers’ Rights
A welcome stand against the reflexive and often unofficial prohibition against camera usage in perfectly situations.
NPR: Nina Simone’s 1968 Tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr
Three days after King was assassinated, Nina Simone and her band performed “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” a beautiful tribute written by their bass player Gene Taylor.
Chris Andersen: Of Fly Eyes and Newspaper Revenues
“If you’d ask me to describe the state of the newspaper industry based on the scary coverage about it alone, I would have guessed that it had fallen by half and that we were back to 1970s levels. Instead, it’s a US$45 billion business, which is twice as big as Google and Yahoo combined.”
“Beautiful Losers”
New documentary screening this Wednesday courtesy of AIGA New York “…celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. In the early 1990’s a loose-knit group of like-minded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the D.I.Y. sub-cultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip-hop and graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the ‘establishment’ art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture.” With a terrific poster design by Keith Scharwath.
NYT: Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club
David Leonhardt explains how everything got so fucked up.
MethodIzaz
Commissioned photography packages in which “subjects are unaware of the exact moment they will be photographed and of the photographer’s identity. Instead, the subject is photographed completely naturally, living life as normal.”
NYT: A Sneak Peek at JeBlue’s Saarinen Project at JFK International Airport
Fingers crossed, it’s going to be great.
Robert X. Cringely: Social Networking Is Just Another CB Radio
“What killed CB radio was that moment when its annoyance factor exceeded its utility.”
Message Tape
Black out the unwanted parts of the digital matrix printed on these tape rolls to create your own messages. Thanks to Kim Bost.
Garfield Minus Garfield
“When you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life…”
NYT: Back in the Swing, 1962
Gorgeous drawings from spring training forty-six years ago, from the hand of the legendary, pioneering illustrator Robert Weaver.