February 2012
2 posts
YA Cover Trends and the Fairy Tale Archetype
There were so many fascinating comments on my post about the dead-girl trend in YA book cover design that I hardly know where to begin addressing them. But as I ambled over to the coffee shop where I write these posts, something about the sight of winter branches and the feel of warm air that lies of springtime turned my thoughts to fairy tales, and from fairy tales back to this discussion.
January 2012
3 posts
The Future of Theater? →
thaumaturgy:
Harvard Mag and Robert Brustein wonder if “the play’s still the thing” in a digital age.
“THERE’S A SYNDROME in our profession—to blame the audience, especially young people,” says Diane Paulus ’88, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater. “ ‘They don’t want to go to the theater anymore—why? They don’t have attention spans. They’d rather be in control, with their...
Winter Break
Read:
Bossypants, Tina Fey
The Invisible Man, HG Wells
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
The Frozen Sky, Jeff Carlson
The Imperfectionists: A Novel, Tom Rachman
Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel, Charlaine Harris
Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King
Drawing Conclusions: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, Donna Leon
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
The Filter Bubble: What...
December 2011
3 posts
“Being a black woman writer in the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s did not pay well. It...”
– ~ podcast interview with Hurston biographer Valerie Boyd (via thaumaturgy)
November 2011
11 posts
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Amadi Talks: Siri Failures, Illustrated →
amaditalks:
People have suggested that this about a lack of female programmers. I don’t think it is. One doesn’t have to be female to know that if you’re going to provide your customers with the benefit of the doubt that they’re adults and will give information on where to buy condoms, beer, the names of local escort companies and “tongue in cheek” locations for hiding a dead body, you should...
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“Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you...”
– 10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story (via interweber)
Welcome | Voice and Tone →
MailChimp’s Voice and Tone guidelines. Also, they own the URL voiceandtone.com. Also, it’s funny and to the point.
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“Linda P.B. Katehi,
I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant...”
– Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi | UCDavis Bicycle Barricade
read this.
Hearing on: H.R. 3261, the "Stop Online Piracy... →
Take a listen!
Darren Aronofsky Directs Four Terrifying Anti-Meth... →
Watch. These. Now. Seriously.
(via interweber)
October 2011
14 posts
Azuro – A New Typeface For Reading On Screens |... →
FontShop on Azuro. A nice read.
(via @cmuaiga and @espiekermann)
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Speak: Writing copy
Writing copy. Copy copy copy.
There’s so much in so few words, which is frustrating. Trying to keep things light, but meaningful, while still being informative and engaging. Lot’s to accomplish in relatively little copy without being preachy.
Occupy George →
A great idea.
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Speak: what's your message?
Initial proposal
What I would like to convey the fact that almost half of the world’s population does not have access to proper sanitation. People do not like to talk about the fact that in an average day a person pees about seven times and poops every one to three days. Sanitation is a basic need, and instead of truly talking about this world health need, we tack it on to the end of access to...
The Lean Publishing Manifesto - Leanpub →
“Publishing Today
The statement “The Book is Dead” is interesting, not because it is correct, but because it is an increasingly popular idea, expressed in a mere four words, which has the feature of being wrong on two different levels.
The first mistake that pundits[1] who proclaim the death of the book are making is that they are incorrectly equating The Book with...
Art of the Hive: Notes from Anna Deavere Smith's... →
artofthehive:
Discipline
“Part of earning that title ‘artist’ is the quality of your interaction with others: how much you manage, as I said about presence, to activate the desires and fears of others through—and here’s a new idea—the use of metaphors and fictions. This does not require fame and…
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Speak: days three and four
For the past few days we’ve been looking at sketching techniques to break down our dense information into “lenses” that we might look at them through
Something that I’ve been struggling with is the complexity of information (which is precisely the point of these sketching techniques). How do you clearly convey how/what effects a person’s water supply?...
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Speak: day two
Investigating sewers — I’m looking at how countries around the world do or don’t treat poop, sanitation systems, and cultural dispositions. (pink post-its ftw!)
In the last few days/ classes we’ve been looking into three topic areas: sewers, cosmetics, cleaning products. I thought that I was going to look into cleaning products, but I founded that I was not as...
September 2011
10 posts
1 tag
Mag+
Just downloaded Mag+, a iPad-magazine-making-inDesign-plugin, but not only is it for designin’, it’s also a issue management system. It seems to me that the model is that they handle your magazine app+subscriptions+backend-y stuff, so you can just design. A bunch of iPad magazines are running on it, Popular Science, MacWorld, etc. It’s free to download, try, run on your...
Font-Embedding Icons: This Is a Big Deal — Some... →
(via @newsycombinator)
Starter Upper : Vitamin T →
Drag-and-drop start-up features, it’s funny and kinda apt. (via @barbariangroup)
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tarngerine:
bartonsmith:
Konstantin Grcic, notes on systems.
by/ Konstantin Grcic
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Kerning.js →
amazing (via Justin)
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Scorpion Kingz.
Pieces project blog.
Bring it.
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Objective: to create an interactive, iPad...
Objective: to create an interactive, iPad publication
Scope: 5,000-7,000 words, 28-34 “spreads” Supporting Material: website, promotional video, “physical” advertisement, process blog/ book/ documentation
Project: My intent for this project is to meaningfully explore a theme as well as investigate the affordances of an interactive, gestural platform. The first few weeks of this project are...
August 2011
7 posts
Peter Vidani: Design at Tumblr →
petervidani:
I started designing themes three years ago when I first fell in love with Tumblr. I loved that I could finally have a blog I was proud of. I felt like the team making this was doing all the right things. A little while later I started doing contract work for Tumblr, and eventually moved to New…
Art of the Menu →
The Art of the Menu, via @WinstonGFX
