September 2005 Archives

• 29 Sep 2005

  MIT Media Lab Laptop

  Now, I love Macs but this MIT Media Lab $100 laptop is loaded with enough thoughtful details to make me platform-agnostic. The laptop is the proposed design for the OLPC campaign spearheaded by Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab co-founder, Joe...

• 19 Sep 2005

  Mommy, where does spam come from?

  Thanks to Google Maps and Mailinator, now we know: http://www.mailinator.com/mailinator/map.html...

• 19 Sep 2005

  Logo Mashup

  Great analysis of re-designing identity for merged organizations....

• 18 Sep 2005

  Bingo!

  From a branding viewpoint, the site is almost entirely functional in layout and does not generate much emotion. BusinessWeek's article, Petsmart Needs Fixing, hits it right on the head. The trouble with many usability groups is they don't know how...

• 2 Sep 2005

  Substance and Style Dissonance

  It's been a few years since the release of Virginia Postrel's popular book, Substance of Style, so I was very delighted to find this bit of confection from her on Slate: How Modernism Got Its Curves. Curiously, her essay is...