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Why America is Fucked [You Tube] > Draplin answers the question of why America is fucked, graphically. A teaser for a new project from Draplin Industries.
Axel Peemoeller - Eureka Carpark Melbourne > Peemoeller designs an interesting way-finding system for a parking lot in Melbourne. "In Melbourne I developed a way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark. The distored letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. This project won several international design awards."
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - [Boston.com] > n of photographs from CERN, showing various stages of completion of the LHC and several of its larger experiments (some over seven stories tall), over the past several years.
Lyons House, Robin Boyd, Sydney [cityofsound] > Great write-up of a tour of Melbourne architect Robyn Boyd, "...The kids apparently enjoyed the fact they could bolt themselves in."
Sunday Times subeditors reply to Giles Coren [The Guardian] > Dear Giles, Sub-editing is a noble profession. It is also a thankless one - particularly when your writers call you a "useless cunt".
Tokyo through the eyes of Shibuya shantytown residents [Boing Boing TV] > Today on Boing Boing tv, we debut Dowa Mondai: Assimilation Issues, an experimental short film by Bob Jaroc which attempts to provide an answer
from Central: Friday Edition > I'll delete this - its not good to bookmark yourself, publicly.
50 Must Read Blogs and Resources for Architecture Majors > For the Architecture degree I never took.
Cameron reunited with stolen bike [BBC News] > Mr Theophile added: "You never want to see anyone have their bike nicked - not even a Tory."
Silverback ? guerrilla usability testing > The best thing 'bout this, in my opinion, is the moving background, at the top of the page, as you enlarge or shrink the browser window. It's downright 3 Dimensional. Great app. too.
Read Giles Coren's letter to Times subs [ guardian.co.uk ] > "There is no length issue. This is someone thinking "I'll just remove this indefinite article because Coren is an illiterate cunt and i know best"."
John Thackara: We Are All Emerging Economies Now [Design Observer] > "It is my growing conviction that, as designers, we can usually do more good in our own backyards than in foreign parts."
Blogs for Print Nerds: Zine Fest Flaunts Camp and Crafts [WIRED] > More than 100 zine-makers packed the County Fair building in Golden Gate Park over the weekend to celebrate San Francisco's annual Zine Festival.
iPhone 2.0: The glory wore off in wash [37signals] > "The cumulative effect of small problems is exponential"
felix sockwell / icons for iPhone > Felix draws for the iPhone, and explains it for us.
Influx Consulting, here in the Bay Area, is looking for interest in a new style of conference they’d like to organize. Influx Consulting runs the web site, Insights, and is part of Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners which recently won the Mini advertising account here in the US.
I’ve taken their words from their site, and if you have any interest at all please do get in touch with them, on their site here.
Japanese architects Klein Dytham have done more than create buildings, they may have stumbled across a formula that could keep conferences fresh for the next couple of years. They are calling it “Pecha Kucha”, which in Japanese means chit-chat. Basically, it’s an event where they encourage a group of creative companies/designers to come and present, but only if they abide by the two basic rules:
1. Presentations are limited to 20 slides
2. Presenters can only spend 20 seconds on each slide
The meme has spread from Tokyo to London and across to Europe. It could be the fast food equivalent and the therefore the future of conferences. In a world where A.D.D is rampant, with people wanting desperate to be in constant check of their Crackberries and laptops, “Perchu Kucha” could be the solution.
Influx is wondering if anyone is interested in working with us, to be in or put on a Branding “Pecha Kucha” event, one evening in San Francisco early in 2006? If so, please leave us a comment. (this is on Influx Insight’s site, not mine of course).