Everomp: Design Makes the Heart Go Yonder

Jess Brouws. Check out his signage shots. Without any typography. Pretty interesting. (08/31)

James Victore. My new favorite designer. (08/31)

Paint anything the Golden Gate Bridge color. Silly? Yeah. Useful? Oh yeah. [noisy descent] (08/31)

Karnak, 1858. (08/30)

Weird old ads. Just that. The kid eating spaghetti and holding a hot dog makes me nervous. (08/29)

20 Timeless Money Tips. Read and be frugal. (08/29)

"For age and want, save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day."
-- Benjamin Franklin (08/29)

Scan it and shred it. Fucking brilliant. (08/29)

Pixelated stain glassed window by Gernhard Richter. Having had his quote at the bottom of Everomp for years, I'm always intrigued by his brilliance. [thisisthat] (08/29)

Spies, mountains, and radioactive rivers. Oh my. (08/29)

An old subway rolls down NYC. They don't build 'em like this anymore. Makes you wonder how pleasant a subway experience would be riding on something like this. (08/28)

Billion Tree Campaign. That's right, with a "B". (08/28)

Making the Most of Our Time. Because we all reset at 24 hours each morning. It's how we utilize it that sets us apart. (08/28)

How to sell a book, via Chip. (08/28)

Disneyland ticket. Junior, $2.50. Boy, oh boy. (08/21)

Syncotype. For those of us that worship the baseline grid. (08/15)

Nightclubs are hell. I'd agree with that. (08/15)

Heavy rains demolish N. Korea. Yeah, pretty much. Poor people... (08/15)

Bush admin. spends $1.6b in advertising. Read it, weep, and weep some more. (08/14)

Thirsty? 1905 ad for Coca-Cola.

Getting stuff done online. Worth bookmarking every link. (08/14)

Pyramid of pennies. Around $4000 worth. (08/14)

Clearview. Great article about the new highway typography. (08/14)

What do planets sound like? A lot like Robin Williams, me thinks. [this is that] (08/14)

Home page design. There is no spoon, but damnit there sure is a home page, and it's worth considering. (08/14)

Karl Rove resigns. Slimy prick. (08/13)

Blueprint. Because grids and the web do go hand-in-hand. (08/13)

GM's electric car, 2010. Why not now?! (08/13)

gBox. Google's own iTunes. Now this is a strange one. I suppose it makes sense to tap that market, but I don't see how Google can improve upon iTunes' sharp design. And isn't that what Google does for a living? Make information easier and simpler to find? I guess I'm of the bandwagon: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." And I'm not seeing any broken parts on iTunes. (08/13)

Myths about fitness. For those of you who are avid fitness freaks, or just starting out, this is a great list. Never trust everything you hear in a gym. (08/13)

A rather depressing graph of the global winners and losers in the subprime market. Ouch. (08/13)

Asleep in the Park. Brilliant! (08/13)

Biofuel and beer. All buzz-joking aside, pretty interesting how a newly-found dependency on biofuel could effect other businesses. (08/13)

The Ocho

It came to my attention I was chosen to further the path of a random-stuff blog entry. Since Joshua kindly elected me as part of the Eight, how can I say no?

The New Chrysler. I swear to God, first AT&T goes 3D, now Chrysler goes metallic. Modern identity design has officially taken a big steaming dump. And let's not forget the remastered UPS logo. These are going to look so dated in a decade. (08/10)

Google says black won't help. Man, I bought into it hook-line-and-sinker. Then again, it's still a great idea and execution. I guess it's back to keeping faith in the big G to do everything in their power to conserve energy. Now Microsoft, on the other hand... (08/10)

Subtalk. "Holy Fucking Shit It's a Goddamn Fucking Bomb". Yeah, sounds about right. (08/10)

Lion reacts to meeting former "Dad". That's about the most touching thing I've seen all month. Fine line between lovin' and maulin'. (08/10)

HTML 5, aka Web 2.5. (08/09)

National Museum of Industrial History. The creative director I work under did this site roughly seven years ago. Aside from my views on all-Flash sites, this holds up quite nicely. The moving gears are a fun addition.

Drink water.

Untitled. Beautiful.

Hack Firefox, then hack the world. Muahahaha.

What’s My Crossover? Because money matters, unfortunately.

Free Your Imagination. A blog for discoveries, including giant lobsters, living fossils (huh?), and (of course) the Dodo. [how]

PDF Spam, now? I received about 20 in a day.

Freemasons. So how exactly does this work? I’m all about the secret societies.

Hystery’s most overlooked mysteries. Should be a Discovery Channel show, damnit.

Similar Diversity.

Hyphenated. Wang-Holder. Hehe.

Folks, the new iMac. The hits just keep on comin’. I’m digging the aluminum brush effect, but can we get rid of the Jay Leno chin already?

Firecracker Press. Bang!

I tell the barista three times, “Blake. My name is Blake.” What did she write on the cup? “Blick.” Next time I’m telling the genius my name’s “Chuck Steak”.

Jump On.

Capital One jacks up interest rates. I’m sick of their commercials anyway. “What’s in your wallet?” I can honestly say — not your credit card.

Johanna Reed photography. Wonderful work, and Everomp reader. Yay!

Spit or Swallow. Not much else to say.

Science of Boomerangs. The flight path is beautiful.

Copywriting for e-commerce. Because writing is half the battle.

Hyposurface. Billboards gone 3d.

Big Bob Nardelli, new Chrysler CEO. Well they’re fucked.

Massive Roman statue found. This still happens?

The Magazine cover. Rather depressing… [do[

Little Lebowski Urban Achievers. They’re not really his kids.

Comic covers. A treasure trove. [zeldman]

Top 10 most caffeinated sodas. Where’s “Diet Pepsi Nervous Cherry Tick”?

Henry Rollins talks American freedom. Quite the potty mouth, but I agree whole heartedly.

Russia plants flag to claim North Pole. Did I time warp back about 800 years? Wow, this is stupid.

Tracking presidential candidate time. I’m partial to Biden, so I’m actually glad he’s got a leg up.

25% of nation’s bridges defficient. Well that makes me feel confident. Too bad all our tax dollars are going into Iraq. Fuck it, can we tax the auto industry? They’re the most reliant on, well, roads.

When Kevin Smith Attacks. Laughter erupts. Poor guy, he didn’t know what hit him.

Virgin America, a preview. Man, now that’s purple. Would that give you a headache after awhile? Whatever, I’m all about the cool factor boarding a flight.

Detective Shanley. That’s just awesome.

The 19-year-old inventor, William Kamkwamba, speaks at TED. What an inspiration. You can donate to his education fund. Kid certainly deserves it.

Africa: The Next Chapter. “Leave us the fuck alone already.” Well, no, but I heard something similar the other day and got a vision of happy-go-lucky American yuppies flying over there to solve every one of their problems. African people are remarkable, and have the opportunity to heal their country. Our help is appreciated, but their country’s next step is theirs alone.

42.8% efficiency. Watch what happens when it hits 75%. Things are going to get very interesting in energy-land.

Embrace, by Hillman Curtis. Chilling.

Anymails. I always knew emails were more like parasites! God knows they multiply like them.

Vital Monitoring System. Great idea for streamlining medical systems.

10 reasons not to own a cell phone. Amazing, huh? I barely remember the good ol’ days…not carrying around a phone all day long. Wow.

Shrine.

Interesting 2007, the design process.

Goodbye Madam Butterfly. A book about the complex lives of modern Japanese women. [ac]

De Niro gets serious. “I’m not selling cars.” We get a couple of Bob’s in the White House, things’ll straight out real quick.

"Art is the highest form of hope."

— Gernhard Richter