Chris sent me a link to this ghost town in Taiwan, photographed by Craig Ferguson in File Magazine. Apparently there were so many deaths during construction in the 1950s that the Taiwanese wouldn’t inhabit it–nor tear it down, as you can’t disturb ghosts!
There is a fine line between our futures: the dymaxion future of Buckminster […]
The day after designer Jeff Croft changed his site design, he woke up to 50 angry emails. His answer to his critics included this beautiful gem of an idea, responding to criticism of his sinful use of low-contrast text on a dark background:
I knew some folks would cry foul, saying it wasn’t readable or “accessible” […]
I made a visit last week to Dearborn, MI, where the Henry Ford Museum has Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House on permanent exhibit. First sketched in 1927, the idea when it was proposed for manufacture in the late 1940s was that the house could be manufactured using aircraft machinery by returning vets, and sold to those […]
Go ahead, ask him!
Jackie and I were having lunch with Chris Yeh last week, and Jackie suggested Chris should have an advice column, because he really can answer just about any question you might think to pose–call him as the Oracle of Palo Alto. At this point, Chris copped to owning asktheharvardmba.com, and no sooner […]
Jackie wanted a new design for her blog. I wanted to do something that was attractive, but also kind of a Web 2.0 spoof, as Jackie is such a 2.0 maven. She is an epic twitterer (got me started this weekend), hence the reference to the twitter logo. She told me she loved sunbeams, too…. […]
She is an Italian starlet named Ova Fritatta, who cracked in 1930, while in Spain filming Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel’s lost surrealist masterpiece, L’Age D’Oeuf. You can vote for her here.
I am going to spend the afternoon decorating eggs. Have not decided yet whether to use analog eggs or digital, ie, the kind that come out of a chicken or the kind that come out of Photoshop. Will possibly do a mashup of both.
My mom was crafty, so as a kid we always did eggs. […]
I recently completed a fun project, designing a site for K-Active, the clothing company started by volleyball great Kerri Walsh. The line has yet to debut, so you can’t see the collection on the site yet, but I’m very pleased with what’s up so far.
The Building Green TV website has been up and running long enough now that I’ve had a chance to reflect on what I like about it. It’s rare for a startup project to include an editorial person in the design process. New media can have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to […]
In the 50th issue of Icon magazine. Some fantastic ideas, like this, from Danish architect Bjarke Ingels:
What if design could be the opposite of conflict? Not by ignoring it, but by feeding off it. A way to incorporate and integrate differences – not through compromise or by choosing sides, but by tying conflicting interests into […]