Everomp: Design Makes the Heart Go Yonder

The Amazon Kindle, reimagined. I like this one better. (11/30)

Natalie Portman interviewed by NYT. Posted because she strikes me as intelligent. We don't get that too often in Hollywood anymore. (11/30)

Kiss your mother with that mouth?! (11/30)

Never thought I'd say this but... amazing photography for these Pepsi ads. Whew. (11/30)

Anne Kiel Jewelry. Shopping around for Red, I found these beautiful pieces. (11/30)

Premium Cola. "Premium-Cola is not a company, since profit is not a goal of the collective. There is no office, no salaries and no actual boss. All members of the collective make a living by other jobs and build up Premium-Cola as sort of a hobby. All issues are decided on collectively, there is hardly any advertising - instead, art pictures are printed on the inside of the bottles' labels." Okay where do I sign up?! (11/30)

Brighter Planet Visa card. Earn points towards carbon offsets. Not a bad idea. (11/30)

Ted Turner owns about 2 million acres of land. Warning: use of the word "doggone" used. Approach with caution. (11/29)

Working Brain Model. Scientists, with the help from IBM, have mapped the mammal's brain. Down to the neuron. Wow. (11/29)

Traditional Japanese wood block prints by Charles Bartlett. Beautiful colors. (11/29)

Political learning time: Salon's interview with Ron Paul. I agree with some of the things said, however he's not my first choice at the moment. (11/29)

Portraits of America. Created by Disney. If they know one thing, it's how to inspire. (11/29)

Assface soap. Merry Christmas. (11/28)

UI Patterns. Rather useful resource for researching design solutions to interactive problems. (11/28)

Johanna speaks (and offers examples) on merging art and science. The future's looking wonderful. (11/28)

BBDK has a new site up. Beautiful grid, colors, typography, and nav rollovers. Wish it was more accessible though. [lined] (11/28)

Indy, complete with whip and gun. To everyone out there proclaiming Ford's looking "old": well no shit, Sherlock. The man's 64 years old. How else is he supposed to look? This ain't the 80's anymore. Just feel blessed he's gracing us with Indy's presence one more time. (11/28)

The 7 rules of unobtrusive javascript. (11/27)

Don't forget to roll over the blue cup. (11/27)

Reproduction of IKEA catalog, leaving only color and grid. On a side note, did I mention an IKEA store just opened in Orlando? Yay! (11/27)

fauborg. Wish I was making a stop in New Orleans. [jer] (11/27)

Animals and wallpaper. Love the fox. (11/26)

Chocolate bunny kill. Well, that was disturbing. Then again, imagine, we eat them whole. Ahhh. [jer] (11/26)

Global Incident Map. Sobering, to say the least. Click around long enough and slight paranoia will sink in (with good reason). (11/26)

Virgin America rocks? Seems like it. Last time I flew on a plane that had built-in screens, I accidentally turned to the History Channel's "World's Worst Aviation Crashes" or something to that affect. I'm still recovering. (11/26)

Funny watercolors by Marc Johns. (11/26)

Autumn colors in England. Lucky bastard, we don't get that in Florida. (11/26)

How to Size Text in CSS. Their best yet. Much needed. (11/21)

Joe Biden speaks with Salon. My choice for Democrat candidate. (11/21)

Strange Thanksgiving moment: Red and I were spending the day in Walt Disney World, taking the Monorail to Magic Kingdom. I look out the window, and I see a flock of... something. "What the hell are those?!" She blinks a couple times staring out the window and exclaims, "Those are God damn turkeys." I couldn't have put it any more eloquently. Yup, somebody in Disney decided to release a flock of roughly half a dozen turkeys to wander the backwoods of Disney. I'll never forget it. Hell, I might have had one of them for dinner that night. (11/21)

Top Ten High-end Whiskies. Because it's Thanksgiving, and men enjoy a good scotch. Then again, we're also idiots. (11/21)

Flight thru instruction manual. Some beautiful illustrations from yesteryear. (11/20)

Hot For Teacher

I've been thinking a lot about education in the field of graphic design. Having been out of school for three years (holy cow) my perspective has changed. Is it truly necessary to attend college to pursue graphic design? The Signals people don't think so. I mean, isn't design a lifestyle? Do we really need to slave through 2-4 years of student loans, text books, macaroni and cheese dinners, high blood pressure, sour professors, and meaningless grades? Don't get me wrong: I have very few regrets about the path I chose in college. It was necessary, yet maybe not for every designer.

Snowboarder vs. jet. Any questions? (11/20)

Fat David. What is the Greek equivalent to twinkies?! (11/20)

Ultreo, the ultrasound toothbrush. Yes, I just said that. (11/20)

Canoe, a design store in Portland. (11/20)

Built for books. Beautiful home. Don't quite take to the comment about knowing how to "have servants unlike the average American". (11/20)

I'd like a Quad for Christmas. Disregard price, please! (11/20)

Guerrilla installations by Quiksilver. I'm still a sucker for a good Quiksilver hat. (11/20)

"You won't have much time living in a van down by the river when you're...living in a van down by the river! (11/20)

I'm a fan of Metroid as much as a hardcore Nintendo guy can be. But this is insane. [tim] (11/20)

Landor. Simply. Beautiful. Work. (11/19)

Visual music. I can play with this all day. Amazing. (11/19)

D.A.N.C.E. Sponsored by Threadless?! [marc] (11/19)

Ghostbusters 3. God is good. Thank you. (11/16)

The Best Magazine Covers of 2007. Colbert's freaking me out. [thisisthat] (11/16)

Animation backgrounds. The art of the background, character-less. (11/16)

The world's real heroes, like Darryl. (11/15)

The portfolio of sign artist and designer Jeff Canham. (11/15)

Lovely site for Reynier Molenaar. Like the use of the circular coffee-cup stain. We need more of them. (11/15)

I owe you a beer. Good job Dan. (11/15)

The perfect mashed potatoes. Take notes, this is important. (11/15)

Trailer for There Will Be Blood. All I can say is, wow. (11/14)

RubyTuesday's gets rebranded. Okay, I love all things Pentagram, but this treatment (while beautiful) does very little for me. Does it for you? Either way I still never eat there. (11/14)

Microsoft just bought Veer. This actually does not scare me. It doesn't even surprise me. I don't like it, but not because it's big bad "M". Because Veer working independently stood for something in my eyes. I'd like to think Corbis will stay out of Veer's business, but how likely is that? We'll see. (11/14)

Give One. Get One. Take a moment and read on. (11/14)

Being an avid supporter of web standards, and usually against the overly-gracious use of Flash for the sake of using Flash, I've got to gnash my teeth and say with a whimper, "Diesel's new site is gorgeous." Slow loading time, but my God the floating models are amazing. (11/14)

Historic archive of Dutch graphic designers. Beautiful work. [unlined] (11/14)

Hi-res images of the Earth rising above the moon's horizon. Courtesy of the Japanese moon explorer "KAGUYA". (11/14)

Red Robin's got a nifty site. Their burgers look halfway tasty, too. [jer] (11/14)

Increase a razor blade's life by 122%. I'm still waiting for the six-blade cleaver! (11/14)

Paula Scher's maps on display. I was first introduced to her side project during a talk she gave in Miami Beach. (11/13)

Sustainability. (11/13)

e-trade gets spanked. Woah, how'd this happen? (11/13)

Monsters!!! Run!!!

Things ground to a halt the last month due to a death in the family. To all passing along their best wishes, I truly do appreciate it. All is well again. Life moves on. I was hoping to discuss this before Halloween, but I'll consider my timing fashionably late. Hey, if the Simpsons can air their Treehouse of Terror episode after Halloween, I'm allowed.

I fixed the comments. Yet another slight hiccup in the process of upgrading MT3 to 4. Unfortunately this whole process has been slightly more painful than expected. But I place only blame on myself for not fixing it sooner. Apologies! (11/13)

What Would Jesus Buy? A Nintendo Wii for His apostles' down time, me thinks. (11/12)

$25,000 dessert? I bet it tastes like crap. (11/12)

Coal miner. I'm speechless. And he's smoking. (11/09)

Broken camera. Would you get yours fixed? (11/08)

GlassBooth. Sorting through candidate positions broken down by category. Very cool tool. (11/08)

Black-OPs bunny. This is just wrong. Gotta love the Internet. (11/08)

Montecito residence. Beautiful lines, spacious interior, slightly Mad Max'ish (which can be a good thing). (11/08)

An (obviously) old Iraqi banknote. Saddam seems to happy. (11/07)

I know some people that swear by Olive Garden's superb food. I'm not one of them. They're okay, not great. But at least we can now all agree, their food is fattening as hell. (11/07)

The ghosts are here, at least in Thailand. Worth watching just for the weird factor alone. (11/07)

"Do Not Call" violators seriously violated. Muahaha. (11/07)

Qi Zhong Stadium in Shangai, hosting the Tennis Masters, opens up like a flower. Amazing! (11/06)

Breaking down the history of Pentagram. Thank you Curtis. (11/06)

"Why do so many companies risk destroying their design heritage - one of their most valuable assets?" Fear of risking being, oh, how do you say, unique? [do] (11/05)

Decca. A lovely vinyl sleeve. (11/05)

Gel of life. Okay, I couldn't come up with a less cheesy title, but this is really cool. Place a couple of these in your kitchen window. (11/05)

Membranes of memory, by Georgia Russell. My God, it's made out of paper! [another] (11/05)

Eurostar's move, Flickr set. [noisy] (11/05)

The space required to transport x amount of people by car, bus, or bicycle. We have a serious challenge facing us in our use of space. It shows how selfish we really are when it comes to how we travel about this Earth. (11/02)

Plastic surgery started as far back as WWI, though we don't usually remember those wounded. (11/02)

Rainbow in your hand. [jer] (11/02)

Pottery marks. When I took ceramics classes at UM, I was always most interested in the marks, rather than the pottery themselves. Oops. [jer] (11/02)

IKEA will recycle your CFLs for free. So no more excuses. (11/01)

Traits of the stress-resilient. Interesting read. [dlm] (11/01)

Vintage Disney Christmas cards. Kicking Halmark's ass fifty years back. (11/01)

Find Your Future You. Not a fan of the cyborg lady. Other than that... cool stuff. (11/01)

AXN. Go ahead, sit on the couch. (11/01)

How Adidas creates a soccer ball. (11/01)

"Art is the highest form of hope."

— Gernhard Richter