Posts

20 October 2008	Relative readability	Why go so big on type? There’s a short answer and a long answer.
15 October 2008	Excuses, excuses	Some people might suggest it’s not worth redesigning a site I only post to twice a year. They’re missing the point.
12 April 2008	The Optimizer	Every designer is wired differently. Some people are idea people, some people are artists. I’m an optimizer.
5 October 2007	Indistinguishable from magic	I love video games. I’m terrible at most of them. But I’m a sucker for a game with a good story.

Photos

• 5 January 2009 Alight
• 9 September 2008 Booth
• 19 April 2008 Look at love

Links

22 June 2009

• The Book Seer What should I read next?
• How to Read Infinite Jest I’m picking my copy up again for “Infinite Summer” and I’m going to make a real effort to finish it this time.

18 June 2009

• LESS This is the first CSS preprocessor with a syntax I actually kind of like.

17 June 2009

• e15 I really like some of the items from this German furniture designer.
• iPhone UI Icon Set Another handy set of iPhone toolbar icons.

16 June 2009

• Civilization Surreal and fascinating video installation assembled from stock footage, projected on an elevator wall and synced to the elevator’s movements.
• Tone Matrix Fun little Flash audio sequencer.
• jQuery Masonry Nice layout trick that’s been popular recently, this version uses jQuery.

8 June 2009

• Fell Swoop Really simple and lovely typographical site for this design group.

2 June 2009

• Fonts available for @font-face embedding Noted for future reference.

1 June 2009

• GOOD Transparencies Archive Beautiful archive of infographics from GOOD magazine. Really amazing to see all this lovely work together.

8 May 2009

• Dueling Gameplay I’m a huge dork for posting this, but this sounds like a really great mechanic for one-on-one videogame combat.

7 May 2009

• Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser 100% real live wisdom.

6 May 2009

• Hypercritical Great piece by John Siracusa on the fine art of criticism, and the importance of going beyond “this is wrong” to investigating, and then articulating exactly why it’s wrong.
• Venns Awesome set of witty Venn diagrams by Frank Sparrow.

Ephemera

• Watch Reprise

  I had to be drug to see this movie. It’s Norwegian, postmodern, and mostly about writers and depression. But it’s also a really fun coming of age movie and a warm love story. And now I‘m trying to convince everybody else to see it.

• Listen Volume One

  As if Zooey Deschanel could get any more charming, she also happens to sing like a particular brand of female vocalists that nobody pays to record anymore — sort of Carole King by way of Julie London. Add M. Ward and a couple of vintage romantic covers and this is an album I like more every time I put it on.

• Read Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

  I know what it looks like. It looks like an arty art book about an artist. And it is. But there's more clarity and wisdom in here — about what it means to do meaningful work, no matter what you do — than just about any book I've read on any subject.