More people use piano stairs
New book! Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
My friend and colleague Emily Pilloton has recently published a book about the social design work she's doing. Read more about her on this Core77.com interview. Buy her book on Amazon. And meet her at this event taking place in San Francisco on October 13.
Congrats, Emily!
The Awesomeness Manifesto
Nike Tag commercial
Will consumer spending really stay down? : The New Yorker
Facebook offices
Mint.com: Nurtured by Super-Angel VCs - BusinessWeek
The linguistics of Apple
How to bike across France
Here are two sites for those who share my interest in traveling across the French countryside on a bike. The picture shows how little gear you can get away with during the trek. One day.
http://www2.arnes.si/%7Eikovse/weight.htm
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread7701.html
Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
85 Useful Free Mac Apps for Designers
Venice Beach, CA
Barcodes for the rest of us
50 Examples of Vintage Typography
The chair-less office
"A company will do well if you get rid of the chairs and computers"
- Hisashi Sakamaki, Canon President
The blue sign on the floor also says "Lets rush - if we don't then the company and world will perish." The corridor was designed to detect whether employees were walking at least 5 meters for every 3.6 seconds.
New Beck Video
Paul Graham in Inc. Magazine
CritBuns rocks the ICFF Designboom gift mart
Another ICFF* and successful Designboom gift mart is in the books. Thanks to Designboom for the invitation to participate, and to my excellent RISD assistants Ben Laramie and Molly Rosenburg for helping man the CritBuns table. The new, softer buns were a hit among passerby, who approached a with a puzzled look on their face, and left with a smile (and sometimes a cushion). We eventually sold out of buns; someone even bought the demo. For those who got there too late, you can obtain a pair online at www.critbuns.com. See you next year!
*ICFF stands for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and happens every May in New York City. It is the superbowl of design in the US, where designers young and old debut new and interesting products.
