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4/20/08
The Punch Brothers
"Bluegrass instrmentation and spontaneity in the structures of modern classical" (Quote from New York Times)

4/10/08
Underground Mainstream

3/25/08
A conversation with John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil, on Charlie Rose.

Monome: minimalist, flexible interfaces.

3/24/08
Alvin Aronson's D/A Clock,
George Dubinsky's Hydroscopic Calender, and other ingenious timekeeping pieces from the RISD furniture department.

03/19/08
Historic speech

The Tällberg Forum

03/07/08
The Big Chart:
Recent Developments in
Counter-Intuitive Comparison.
(Thanks to Robert Feyereisen)

02/20/08
The Balloon Project

The Reanimation Library: “Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles across the country and given new life as resource material for artists, writers, and other cultural archeologists.”

02/17/08
The Plotting Machine that can draw, scratch or cut with almost any traditional mark-making instrument. Using an LED and a long-exposure photograph, it can even plot light.

01/23/08
80 Million Tiny Images (Thanks to Christian Schmidt)

12/21/07
John Maeda named RISD president . (WOW!)

12/09/07
“Ways to save and generate energy from The New York Times Magazine's Year in Ideas.” While you're at it, check out the work of Nikola Tesla. He envisioned wireless energy over a century ago.

12/08/07
“Digital Detroit: On Tourists in the Apocalypse.”
(Via Archinect)

12/05/07
“Unicode 5.0 encodes exactly 98,884 characters on different planes. Through this wiki function, we collect information on every single character...” (Via The Serif)

“Understanding Sub-Pixel (LCD Screen) Anti-Aliased Font Rendering.”

12/04/07
“Eisenman vs. the Herzog -
LIVE Blogging from the Harvard GSD.”

12/03/07
“Inscribed in the living tile:
Type in the Toronto Subway”
(via Writing Design Criticism)

Corn fields and military bases: a discussion between David Salmela and Thomas Fischer on critical-regionalist architecture.

“20x200: It's art for everyone. New original editions weekly, at ridiculously affordable prices.” (Thanks to Tia Salmela)
Also, check out Supermarket.

12/02 07
“How to make big things happen with small teams,”
a manifesto from Jason Fried
of Basecamp.

12/01/07
Jen Stark's technicolor construction paper sculptures.
Also take a look at another great construction paper artists, Thomas Demand.

Interest in the artic is booming.
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11/28/97
The entire internet on one page(Via Information Aesthetics).

Short film on Pentagram by Hillman Curtis. (Via Armin at Underconsideration)

11/21/07
Joey Roth's minimalist products. (Found on Quipsologies)

11/19/07
"MUJI - in its deliberate pursuit of the pure and the ordinary - achieves the extraordinary."

11/18/07
Daniel Eatock is having his first solo show. Check out the video of his lecture at the Walker Art Center. While you're at it, here are a few other videos from Walker Channel that I recommend.
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In high school I designed ski suits for my biathlon team. Here are some underwater photographs of my first piece of graphic design.

One Laptop Per Child
special offer through Nov 27th. Give One Get One. The laptops will be going to children in Afghanistan, Haiti, Cambodia, and Rwanda.

11/17/07
This makes me proud to be
a designer from Minnesota.
Here is another peripheral midwest modernist that makes me proud.

11/15/07
From the suburbs?

Richard Saul Wurman's 19.20.21 project. (found on Design Observer). While you're at it, have a look at UnderStAnding.

11/12/07
Corey Arnold's "Arctic-Ness" (found on Fish's FFFound page)

Jed's Other Poem is a great song, and this is a great video.
(from MB at Design Observer)

11/11/07
My two year old nephew's first photographs.

11/10/07
T-Mobile tradmarks magenta. No joke. (from Swissmiss)

11/09/07
"Don't try to be original. Just try to be good." - Paul Rand (from Newstoday)

10/19/07
Some great maps done by Denis Wood, which were highlighted on a recent episode of This American Life.

07/06/07
"The Reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface, a.k.a a sick music instrument that you thought only existed in the future."