Posts from ‘May, 2009’

The New Yorker Mag­a­zine has a tra­di­tion of excel­lent, chal­leng­ing and often times con­tro­ver­sial cov­ers for its weekly mag­a­zine. This was evi­dent dur­ing the pre­vi­ous Amer­i­can elec­tion, with two cov­ers illus­trat­ing the stereo­types of both can­di­dates (see here and here). The pro­pri­ety and taste­ful­ness of the cov­ers cre­ated some­thing of a polit­i­cal firestorm, or at […]

This is pretty inter­est­ing. Andy Warhol dig­i­tally paint­ing a pic­ture of Deb­bie Harry with a Com­modore Amiga at a prod­uct launch press con­fer­ence in 1985! Add one part Andy Warhol of soup can fame, a dash of Deb­bie Harry of Blondie and toss in the Amiga and you get an amaz­ing stew of early 80’s […]

Twit­ter is all the rage, but how can you make a great look­ing twit­ter page? Twit­ter gives the user lim­ited, yet flex­i­ble design options. As social net­work­ing sites go, this gives you the abil­ity to cre­ate a unique look unlike say, Face­book. But it keeps things much cleaner than the design night­mare that is MySpace. […]

When you visit the Deke Lounge to expe­ri­ence some liq­uid learn­ing make sure you take off your shoes. The incom­pa­ra­ble Deke McClel­land and Colleen Wheeler do another bang up job in the Lounge this week. Join­ing them again are Rus­sell Brown, the Bill Nye of Pho­to­shop (okay it’s just the white lab coats that make […]

I saw this strik­ing image from boing boing of what I con­sider a mod­ern totem or tiki statue. A group of Dutch artists carved a tree trunk into the shape of a full-sized stand-up arcade video game. It’s an inter­est­ing work on a num­ber of lev­els, but this medium and style of video game is slowly […]