Archive for the ‘art+design’ Category
New Year’s Resolution Generator
December 30th, 2009
Lack the drive to even come up with resolutions, let alone complete them? Try this beautifully-designed resolution generator!
Dubai
December 30th, 2009
Martin Becka took a series of photographs of Dubai with a 150-year-old camera.
Gävle Goat Burned Again
December 23rd, 2009
My pyromaniacal readers will no doubt be thrilled to hear that the Gävle goat has once again been reduced to cinders.
Gavle city spokeswoman Anna Ostman said someone set fire to the 43-foot-high (13-meter-high) creature around 3 a.m. local time. Only a charred wooden skeleton of the traditional Swedish Christmas symbol remained on Wednesday morning.
“It feels very sad,” Ostman said. “We had really hoped that he would survive Christmas and New Year’s.”
Vandals have burned down the goat 24 times since it was first set up in Gavle in 1966 to mark the holiday season. It has also been smashed several times, run over by a car and had its legs cut off.
Making a Fiberglass Chair
December 14th, 2009
The amount of craftsmanship that went into making a mundane, ubiquitous fiberglass shell chair is incredible.
TeuxDeux
December 11th, 2009
Designer/blogger Tina Roth Eisenberg (alias swissmiss) recently posted about her recently-completed web-based to-do list manager, TeuxDeux. Perfectly minimal – it’s my new home page.
Earth’s Rings
December 9th, 2009
What would the sky look like if Earth had rings like Saturn? Pretty darn neat, especially near the equator:
Alternately, for those who don’t care about conjectural astronomy, enjoy Barbara Bonney’s lovely rendition of Ave Maria.
Organic Foods
December 7th, 2009
After getting into an argument in the grocery store today over who owns Kashi,* I’m posting – for your consumption edification – a chart of which giant corporations own which organic brands. I think everyone knows some of them (Odwalla ⊂ Coke, etc.), but a few were kinda surprising.
* It’s Kellogg.
Envisioning Development
December 2nd, 2009
The Envisioning Development project has an interactive map detailing the cost of living in various neighborhoods of New York City. It’s nice to know that if I ever get a web design/development gig in NYC I can afford to live in Williamsburg and be the biggest hipster ever.
I wish there were similar maps to detail the CoL for other cities.