Category: design + art + typography
Design related
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Laske’s Beach Chair
The beauty of simplicity, usability, and aesthetics combined — When looking at this chair, You just know that Larry gets it. He’s sat on the beach. He’s probably even bought…
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Creative tech tips
This company out of Seattle puts their ‘money where their mouthes’ are in terms of being Mac/Computer experts. Every week they send out an awesome newsletter with 2 or 3…
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Surfer’s path online
The Surfer’s Path is a great magazine. It’s available on some newsstand’s and isn’t cheap – but at least it is printed in a beautiful format on good quality paper….
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The Fountain
We watched The Fountain last night. It was recommended to us by Anile and Chris while we were in Mexico. I had seen the trailers and knew a bit about…
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I love finder tips
When you spend as much time using the Mac OS X finder as I seem to, then these small innocuous tips can save me from my finger joints locking up…
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The 7.83 Hz House
This is beautiful. Especially the part about the adaptability of the structure itself to growing needs and changes in lifestyle. “Featured in the latest issue of Dwell, the “7.83 Hz”…
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Analytics vs. Measure Map
Google announced today that they have begun launching the new interface for Google Analytics (online software that helps keep track of visitors to your website). You can really see why…
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Takagi Masakatsu
The Apple “Pro” site has a great video profile of Toyko artist Takagi Masakatsu. He has got to be one of the best “stock” filters users I’ve seen. Some of…
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Running the Numbers
We always joke here in the studio about Warren, the owner, and his love for “running the numbers”. He likes data visualization and statistics-charting of all kinds! This series from…
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Seven exhibition
I’ve always loved the idea that skateboards are made of wood. Simple wood layers glued together under high pressure without much else added (don’t even comment with the word “boneite!“)….
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A new fish is coming
I’m having a new custom surfboard made. I’ve been riding my larger Stewart (7′ 6″ fun board shape) for some time now and have decided it’s time to starting pushing…
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Plank
After many years with the same old site, we finally got something new up. I like the friendliness of it a lot, I like the humor, I like the valid…
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Public skatepark development guide (aka MTL – wake up!)
I’m a huge supporter of Public skateparks. It still astonishes me that Montréal has done JACK to address this need. They have tossed money at badly thought-out schemes — and…
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Graphic design photosets
Maryellen McFadden has been collecting some graphic design images and grouping them into sets. She’s already accumulated some very nice work. In fact she’s been scanning these herself! Her profile…
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A quilt made in China
Someone has posted a beautiful and thoughtful quilt image on Flickr; “This is a quilt that I made entirely of labels, except for the binding. It is one of a…