Adventures in Design…

… changing the world one sketch at a time …

I’ve been without internet for a while. It’s good to be back. Just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays. Hope you’re all enjoying a break with people you love.

(Or 12-17-2007 for the American readers out there.)
I could have done this as a series of posts, but this makes more sense.
How colour-blind people see the world

I’ve always wondered what the world looked like to other people. Just how subjective is human vision? Well, this article was written by someone who is red/green colour-blind. Also, one comment suggested […]

e are alienated from our own facial hair.
Society tells us that full beards are unacceptable. Businessmen, politicians, bankers, and the like are all clean shaven; all demonstrating the standards that middle class society expects us to maintain."
 
A quote from the Manifesto of Whiskerino, an online beard growing competition. As a fan of the beard, I […]

The Face Your Pockets project has people empty the contents of their pockets onto a scanner and create an image by scanning them along with their face. It’s really neat, I think I’ll post my pictures once I get back to the US. I found someone who carries more pens than I do!
 Via designboom.

Ingenious golden prize winner for the second MUJI Awards. Didn’t think the other winners were all that good though.

My last two posts were “quickies”. What’s a quicky? Well, jealous of the simplicity of my friend Adam’s tumblr, I found a plugin for Wordpress called “quickpost” that lets me do quick tumblr-style posts. But I wanted quickies to be small, quick posts that don’t attract too much attention, so I did a little bit […]

Recreating Movement is a program that takes video footage, analyzes it, and produces a "3D" images using several frames arragned in space. The outcome is nifty.

No Ideas But In Things is a "source of inspiration for interaction designers" that consists of pictures, animations, and diagrams of poorly designed interfaces. "Curated" by interaction designer Dan Saffer. I like that picture best.

My blog might go down this week. Seems like the files got messed up, duplicated, or something. Won’t act like I want it to.
Hang in there guys! Yes, all 4 of you. I’ll be back and posting soon!