By Hal on April 9, 2010
Just great. My favorite part has to be the Tetris building.
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By Hal on April 5, 2010
Some pundits have posed the question: Why do anyone need this thing? Indeed, even those of you are lining up and standing outside stores may be wondering, Why am I doing this? Why am I lining up like a zombie for an expensive piece of consumer electronics, a product for which there is no shortage [...]
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By Hal on March 23, 2010
Yes, we believe that all clients deserve a Bill of Rights. But sometimes they also need to hear how they can sound:
Dearest clients, it’s funny because it’s (sometimes) true.
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By Hal on March 9, 2010
Last weekend Mike K. and I attended the first ever SMartCamp, a conference focusing on the social web and its relationship to the arts. It was a good conference with speakers from some of the main players at the intersection of the arts and technology, including Etsy, Threadless, and of course, MoMA. However, there were [...]
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By Hal on February 18, 2010
“Well, the field itself is dominated by fashion and by the idea of selling stuff, so you have to be concerned with what’s currently being done, and the economy is based on the idea of change and new styles, and this year’s whatever. Unfortunately, that’s not the real basis for serious work. If you’re more [...]
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By Hal on January 27, 2010
What I like so much about this video isn’t just that it’s good (which it is), or that it’s a reminder of how frighteningly proficient today’s design students have become (it was done by a student in Singapore). No, I thought it was worth noting because it’s also a really fine example of the merits [...]
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By Mike Knowlton on January 25, 2010
“The fact that they exist and that they’ve survived is really kind of amazing these days”—David Byrne
Our Noise is the inspiring story of North Carolina’s Merge Records—”the indie label that got big and stayed small”. Merge was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance & Mac McCaughan of Superchunk. The book celebrates its twenty years of releasing [...]
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