September 2005 Entries
09.29.2005
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... [+]
09.19.2005
Mommy, where does spam come from?
Thanks to Google Maps and Mailinator, now we know: http://www.mailinator.com/mailinator/map.html... [+]
09.19.2005
Logo Mashup
Great analysis of re-designing identity for merged organizations.... [+]
09.18.2005
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... [+]
09.02.2005
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... [+]
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