m@: überesque vägaries.

The Art of Film & TV Title Design by PBS’ Off Book. I...

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:37:25 -0400

The Art of Film & TV Title Design by PBS’ Off Book.

I was tipped-off to a great digital series PBS creates called ‘Off Book’ by @tjlull. The Title Design video above hooked me (who doesn’t love a good opening title sequence?). Like I did, you’ll end up watching most of their other videos, too.

A few great ones:

Have some time to kill? Check out my YouTube faves feed (see also Vimeo, Netflix, Ted Talks, etc.).

I think I’m going to make this my avatar everywhere and...

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:08:43 -0400

I think I’m going to make this my avatar everywhere and freak everyone out.

Either garden beer pong or giving the tomatoes a bigger home....

Sun, 06 May 2012 15:42:40 -0400

Either garden beer pong or giving the tomatoes a bigger home. You decide.

Building things with power tools. Obviously very manly-like.

Sun, 06 May 2012 15:41:24 -0400

Building things with power tools. Obviously very manly-like.

The Difference Between UX and UI: Subtleties Explained in Cereal...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:13:06 -0400

The Difference Between UX and UI: Subtleties Explained in Cereal (design.org)

Ever met someone who uses UX and UI interchangeably? Ed Lea created this photographic infographic to visually define the differences between user experience and user interface design and how they relate to a product.

Sam Sparro at Highline Ballroom.

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:06:42 -0400

Sam Sparro at Highline Ballroom.

Steal ye some iBooks...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:54:59 -0400

Steal ye some iBooks...

Saturday Brooklyn Afternoon.

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:23:32 -0400

Saturday Brooklyn Afternoon.

There’s a few things interesting about this, but...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:22:03 -0400

There’s a few things interesting about this, but specifically:
- the acknowledgement of the increasing trend for riders with tablets—mostly iPads—that we’ve all noticed over the last year or so.
- the choice to display white headphones instantly signals ubiquitous ‘Apple product’ to viewers (well-played, Apple).

Client meetings at Crayola in Easton, PA. Seeing how the little...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:42:53 -0400

Client meetings at Crayola in Easton, PA. Seeing how the little waxies are made.

Sun is shining and the windows are open wide. Live jazz from Bar...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:32:23 -0400

Sun is shining and the windows are open wide. Live jazz from Bar Tabac and a cool breeze blowing through. This is a Sunday.

"And so a tradition was born: a tradition I am going to call (half descriptively, half out of revenge..."

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:46:29 -0400

“

And so a tradition was born: a tradition I am going to call (half descriptively, half out of revenge for all the hours I’ve lost to them) “stupid games.” In the nearly 30 years since Tetris’s invention — and especially over the last five, with the rise of smartphones — Tetris and its offspring (Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Fruit Ninja, etc.) have colonized our pockets and our brains and shifted the entire economic model of the video-game industry. Today we are living, for better and worse, in a world of stupid games.

Game-studies scholars (there are such things) like to point out that games tend to reflect the societies in which they are created and played. Monopoly, for instance, makes perfect sense as a product of the 1930s — it allowed anyone, in the middle of the Depression, to play at being a tycoon. Risk, released in the 1950s, is a stunningly literal expression of cold-war realpolitik. Twister is the translation, onto a game board, of the mid-1960s sexual revolution. One critic called it “sex in a box.”

Tetris was invented exactly when and where you would expect — in a Soviet computer lab in 1984 — and its game play reflects this origin. The enemy in Tetris is not some identifiable villain (Donkey Kong, Mike Tyson, Carmen Sandiego) but a faceless, ceaseless, reasonless force that threatens constantly to overwhelm you, a churning production of blocks against which your only defense is a repetitive, meaningless sorting. It is bureaucracy in pure form, busywork with no aim or end, impossible to avoid or escape. And the game’s final insult is that it annihilates free will. Despite its obvious futility, somehow we can’t make ourselves stop rotating blocks. Tetris, like all the stupid games it spawned, forces us to choose to punish ourselves.

”

- NYtimes: Just one more game… — fantastic read.

In the everlasting quest to unlock the secrets of the universe,...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:38:09 -0400

In the everlasting quest to unlock the secrets of the universe, I’ve learned a great one: the key to a rock-solid highfive is to track the other person’s elbow, not hand.

skylor:

#whitepeople

Yes.

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:26:40 -0400

Yes.

Pretty cool timeline + Google Image mashup for any search term...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:27:07 -0400

Pretty cool timeline + Google Image mashup for any search term over any period of time.

She’s got my taste in sockery. (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:37:52 -0400

She’s got my taste in sockery. (Taken with instagram)

Basically two of the most adorable things I know. (Taken with...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:07:17 -0400

Basically two of the most adorable things I know. (Taken with instagram)

Great NYC apartment rental infographic via NakedApartments.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:14:26 -0400

Great NYC apartment rental infographic via NakedApartments.

I think the print ads are kinda sexy. An Axe fragrance for men...

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:40:00 -0400

I think the print ads are kinda sexy.

An Axe fragrance for men and women? Supported by an Axe campaign that isn’t aggressively, compulsively misogynistic? The world must be coming to an end.

In fact, that’s exactly what seems to be happening in Bartle Bogle Hegarty’s launch spot for Axe Anarchy, the first fragrance in the brand’s history with a version for ladies as well as dudes. Axe has long been known, and relentlessly bashed, for “giving men the edge in the mating game” (their words)—which in the advertising has always meant portraying women as brainless, sex-driven fools unable to resist throwing themselves at the Axe-using men in their midst. The introduction of a women’s fragrance levels the playing field, and lets BBH finally portray both sexes as sex-crazed imbeciles, free to objectify each other equally in willfully mutual attraction—in what turns out to be the most absurdly romantic campaign Axe has ever produced.

via Adweek

Here’s the video spot:

Smart use of Tumblr to showcase users’ creations to...

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:33:23 -0400

Smart use of Tumblr to showcase users’ creations to encourage uptake and growth. Their promo video is especially gorgeous, too.

9-bits:

madewithpaper:

Shinbashi Dori

Paper is the hot new drawing app for the iPad, and with good reason. The app features an elegant, minimal interface, gorgeous transitions, and intuitive gestures throughout. For me, the app also hits the perfect balance between simplicity and power: While it doesn’t feature the multitude of drawing tools/options that apps like Sketchbook Pro have, it offers much more than “simple” sketching apps like Penultimate. As you can see from the sketch above, the limited toolset is still quite capable of creating beautiful sketches.

The app is free to download and try, but comes with limited drawing tools. Each extra tool is $1.99 via an in-app purchase, or you can buy them all for $6.99. Interestingly, you can also try each too, in-app, before making a purchase.

You should also check out their Tumblog, where they have been posting sketches from users, showing everything from artistic sketches to application wireframes.