Archive for February 2008

TED 2008 Coverage

In Culture, Technology on Feb-29-2008 with
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Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing is liveblogging from TED 2008. It would be nice if they had tags just for Ted so I could link you directly to all the posts, but alas they don’t

Links for Feb-27-08

In Links on Feb-27-2008 with
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• Wired has a nice feature on 37Signals, the folks behind a great suite of web-based applications (Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, and Campfire).
  [tags: 37Signals, Web 2.0, Wired]

Links for Feb-25-08

In Links on Feb-25-2008 with
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• Joshua Marshall the founder and editor of Talking Points Memo last week won the Polk Award for legal reporting for his coverage of the firing of eight United States attorneys last year. The New York Time has a nice feature on Marshall.
  [tags: Politics, Joshua Marshall, Talking Points Memo, Blogs]

Tiger Is Unstoppable

In Links, Sports on Feb-24-2008 with
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Tiger Woods just beat-down Stewart Cink in record fashion at the World Golf Championships (WGC) Match Play by a score of 8 & 7. What that means if you are not a golfer is that Tiger was leading by 8 holes with just 7 remaining in their 36-hole match. This is the largest margin ever in any of WGC event, but also unheard of in match play of any type at the professional level.

Han Solo Carbonite Office Desk

In Design on Feb-23-2008 with
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Now I am not a rabid Star Wars fan, but this is still an awful darn neat desk.

[Via Boing Boing]

Links for Feb-22-08

In Links on Feb-22-2008 with
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• Extended trailer for the new Indiana Jones 4, The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. May 22 opening. I can’t wait.
  [tags: Indiana Jones, Movies, Trailer]
• World’s largest music collection sells for more than $3 million eBay. The collection includes 3 million records
  300,000 CDs and totals more than 6 million songs.
  [tags: Music, P2P]
  
• The Firefox browser today passed the 500 million download mark. So what does that mean, about a 17 percent market share. Pretty darn impressive.
  [tags: Firefox, Web2.0, Microsoft]

Advertising Got Better

In Advertising, Business, Design on Feb-22-2008 with
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Pentagram Partner and Creativity 50 Honoree Paula Scher has an interesting interview with Creativity Magazine where she outlines how she believes advertising has improved recently, but nobody in the design community seems to care and/or notice.

I’m not sure that the graphic design community as a whole is paying any attention to this. I don’t see very many speakers from the advertising community invited to speak at design conferences (except for the very few who lead branding groups at agencies and in some circles they are still considered the enemy). I don’t read about it on design blogs, and I’m not seeing books published about it. I’m not seeing advertising, in any form, turn up in any design museum exhibitions, not at the Modern, not at the Cooper-Hewitt. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum has an annual designer award category for Communication Design and I’ve never seen an advertising person nominated since the award’s inception.

Cool Staircase Bookcase

In Books, Design on Feb-20-2008 with
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As a book lover I therefore have to love bookcases. And this is one of the neatest I’ve seen, using a staircase as the base structure since the person didn’t have a lot of space in his London flat. Many more pictures and background on the design at Apartment Therapy.

Lohan Recreates Monroe Photospread

In Culture, Photography on Feb-18-2008 with
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In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe at the Hotel Bel-Air that have collectively come to be known as The Last Sitting. Monroe died six weeks later of a drug overdoes. Well Stern has returned to the Bel-Air to recreate this photospread with Lindsay Lohan for New York Magazine(NSFW). Add Lohan to your “death pool.

The Best Sandwiches in America

In Food on Feb-16-2008 with
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Esquire Magazine has a detailed roundup of some of the best sandwiches in America, including more than a few recipes at the very end of the article. The best I’ve had are a roast beef po’boy at Mother’s in New Orleans and a burger (and of them will do) at Five Guy’s in Alexandria, VA. But the Reuben to the left from Jimmy and Drew’s in Boulder looks awful darn good. Lunch time anybody?