14.07.07
flip clock digits
following on my renewed infatuation with the flip clock screensave, i've decided to design my own flip clock digits to use in a video i'm editing.
downloadable in full for your own design pleasure.
31.01.07
justice mapping center
the justice mapping center is a data visualization org that specializes in combining geographic and judicial information. like the 2004 the neighborhood costs of america's prison boom report.
g.i.s geeks and social activists rejoice alike.
21.01.07
2007 symmetrical type
i've just noticed that, if you tweak the characters just right, you can write '2007' in a way that's symmetrical to rotation:
yeah, procrastinating in illustrator.
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:11
lovely. happy 2007!
- jodi
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:47
cool. would be interesting to take a list of "symmetrical" pairs (e.g. 0-0, 2-7) and look for other palindrome words made of those characters...
- mickey
25.10.06
milton glaser life lessons
a very inspiring list of life lessons written by designer milton glaser (of 'i heart ny' fame) was forwarded to me recently.
i pretty much agree with all ten, and fi anything, i feel that the ones i do not implement in my own life are things i would like to get better at.
here's a sampler:
[W]hen you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or doing it in the same way as you have done it before, it is clear why professionalism is not enough. After all, what is required in our field, more than anything else, is the continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success. So professionalism as a lifetime aspiration is a limited goal.
LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE.
Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less
is more. One morning upon awakening I realised that it was total
nonsense, it is an absurd proposition and also fairly meaningless.
HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.
[...]
[T]he brain is susceptible, in a way that we are not fully conscious of, to almost every experience of our life and every encounter we have.
[...]
I am convinced that if someone was to yell at me from across the street my brain could be affected and my life might changed.
Some years ago I read a most remarkable thing about love, that also applies to the nature of co-existing with others. It was a quotation from Iris Murdoch in her obituary. It read Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Isnt that fantastic! The best insight on the subject of love that one can imagine.
Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:27
this one makes me happy: "One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty."
although much of what he says is tinged with what seems like pretty strong certainty... :)
- cynthia
18.09.06
it's from when?
recently i'm repeatedly amazed how early some modern design really is. for the most part i feel that what one would consider "modern", at least in the pop-arty/minimalist sense of the word, is really from the 60s or 70s. but every now and then, something pops up from the very beginning of the 20th century that just looks too new to be so old.
like these tea services by austrian designer jutta sika, dated around 1902. 1902! that's before the first world war.
to that my friend y. would say - "the beatles already wrote all the good songs. so you can either copy one of theirs or write a bad one."
23.06.06
black and white and cutout style
an interesting interactive play of images, curves, and motion at nfctd, exploring the aesthetic possibilities of flash.
13.04.05
'R' is for light
i couldn't find a picture of them online (so consider this somewhat of a web exclusive), but i managed to sneak a shoot of m.'s last pack from the quickly diminishing carton that he brought back with him from tokyo.
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:55
that has just saved me an unbelievable amount of hard work and time. thank you :)
- Thomas
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:31
oh yeah? what are you using those for?
- guy
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:20
Thank you, estaba buscando estos digitos muchas gracias
- Victor