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Bearded kids in Antarctica

April 9th, 2008 at 5:18 pm 0 comments.

The Natural History Museum in London has an exhibit that features Antarctic qualities such as 24 hour darkness and frigid cold temperatures. Ice Station Antarctica challenges kids to see if they are up to the challenges faced in the extreme Antarctic environment. The bearded kids are from posters advertising the exhibition, shot by Paul Thompson, whose work is really quite stunning. Why do the kids have beards? Don’t all arctic and antarctic explorers have beards?

big ideas are small

April 4th, 2008 at 9:54 am 0 comments.

d-barcode

d-barcode in Japan design barcodes for the items you see on the supermarket shelf. These are the little flourishes of design that take the banal and make it fresh and that keeps me smiling everyday.

tags:b&w barcode design japan

Royal Mint, new coins

April 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 am 0 comments.

New coins from the Royal Mint

The newly designed coins are the work of Matthew Dent, a 26 year old designer whose entry in the national contest stood above the other 4000 entries. What I feel is the best part of his design is the unifying use of the Royal Coat of Arms across the range of coins and the appearance of the complete shield on the new 1£ coin.

I thought the six coins could make up a shield by arranging the coins both horizontally, as with the landscape idea, as well as vertically, in a sort of jigsaw style. I liked the idea and symbolism of using the Royal Arms, where individually the coins could focus on specific elements and when placed together they reveal the complete Royal Arms.

via We Made This

urban zebra

March 16th, 2008 at 10:53 pm 0 comments.

grazing on a rusty iron tree

i love you

February 14th, 2008 at 12:52 pm 0 comments.

there are so many different ways to say it. or to not say it. you know who you are and that i love you. very much.

World Clock Project

January 30th, 2008 at 2:17 pm 0 comments.

The World Clock Project is collecting images of public clock faces showing each minute of the day. My submission is 9:33, shown above first in on the second row.

Because it’s great fun to look at pictures of clocks from around the world. And aside from telling us the time, these pictures of unfamiliar clocks take us to a different place and remind us of the vastness of the world.

Upon collecting all minutes of the day they intend to create a “digital picture clock”. Upload a picture of some missing time to help out.

listening to a sign

January 29th, 2008 at 2:56 pm 0 comments.

listenable sign

At the recommendation of a friend, who questioned the very idea that someone would plug their headphones in to a sign, I did just that. The experience was, as you might guess, pretty stupid. This particular sign was in the 42nd street A/C/E Station, where I stood about a foot away from the ad to which I was tethered and listened to a few moments of John Legend. I can’t even say I remember much of the music though I am pretty sure I hated it, but to be fair the experience wasn’t helping. When I pushed my unprotected headphone plug into this skanky 42nd Street subway sign the music was already playing, I had arrived mid song. Maybe I should have waited until the song (or songs?!) looped but the draw of standing uncomfortably close to a sign, listening to new music and thinking that this was supposed to sell me a compact disc was less than strong. I unplugged from the high-tech billboard, thinking of the marketing people convincing themselves that this idea was totally awesome.

tags:advertising music signing

24 hours in a day

January 17th, 2008 at 10:20 pm 0 comments.

24 Hour Analog Clock Widget

I like 24 hour timekeeping. It makes quite a bit of sense, as evidenced by its use by highly precision oriented organizations such as the military and the railways . They also work particularily well in locations where there is not a good sense of night and day, such as in submarines and in mines as well as in situations where you have multiple “day-night” cycles per 24 hour period, in space.