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Manga

15 August 2008

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Yet another thing all the cool kids are doing… It looks nothing like me, so I may have to work on it a little more. I still prefer my awesome webmistress avatar regardless. Update: I think this one might be a little better.

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Public Art Gone Wild

19 May 2008

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I stole this from Shawn. I’m sure he won’t mind. This is perhaps the coolest use of a wall that I have ever seen. Other walls will be jealous. MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

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Swedish Design at its Best

7 August 2007

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And I thought this was primarily a Japanese thing…  Pee&Poo, two taboo-breaking cuddly toys by Swedish designer Emma Megitt.Pee&Poo was Emma’s Master of Design project at HDK (School of Design and Crafts, Göteborg University). They went on line with their own site shortly afterwards. Within a few weeks tens of thousands of people had visited the site. And [...]

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White Linen night in the Heights

2 August 2007

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This looks kinda fun.

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Linus’ blanket for the new millenium?

2 May 2007

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 I suppose this is more like a security snake than blanket, or maybe closer to a decorative element, but the technology behind it sounds pretty nifty.  I think I may have to have one of these…  At least it might relieve some of the burden from my dogs.  They are calling it “no constraints carpet,” but I am [...]

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Web Evolution for Academics

26 February 2007

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A friend posted this on his blog, and I just had to borrow it…  I think this is an incredible visulization of how web design has evolved, why, and where it goes from here. 

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High Style and Ikea

7 December 2006

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While perusing the catalogue for an upcoming 20th century design sale at Sotheby’s, I came across a lovely table by Israeli-born British designer/architect, Ron Arad. Unfortunately, I am not in the market for a $100,000 table…  lovely though it may be.  Fortunately, IKEA always seems to come through…  The Arad table reminded me of a table I had looked [...]

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