Author Archives: Alex

The Morning News – Still Life Still lives of exploding statuettes. Awesome. (tags: boingboing art design photography)

sevensixfive: Generic William Gibson Plot 100 pages into Spook Country and this looks a little too true… (tags: gibson books plot)

See Who’s Editing Wikipedia – Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign A coder has developed a very efficient way of checking out who’s changing Wikipedia – and some of those edits might make you think twice about how much you trust open-source facts… (tags: wired wikipedia propaganda news) Threat Level – Wired Blogs Follow up toContinue reading “links for 2007-08-15”

Space to think | Review | The Observer Another William Gibson interview; as it’s a Sunday magazine piece there’s a decent overview of his career to date stitched into discussion of the new book (tags: writing books gibson) China’s iClone – Popular Science Article on China’s ability to clone popular branded technology; only skimmed it,Continue reading “links for 2007-08-14”

Design View / Andy Rutledge – quiet structure, USA Today vs CNN redesign Excellent analysis on why CNN’s redesign, which places its faith in ‘quiet structure’ is a real winner (tags: newspaper web2.0 design news media cnn) PingMag – TOP 6 of Tokyo’s Coolest Souvenirs Not a single one involves Hello Kitty. Robots and otherContinue reading “links for 2007-08-11”

CR Blog » Magma move beyond books Magma has opened a second store selling nicely designed stuff rather than books about nicely designed stuff; will have to check that out when i get a moment off… (tags: london design shopping todo) Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays in a book | munterbund.de Only speed-readContinue reading “links for 2007-08-10”

Photojojo » 11 Super Awesome Photoshop Movie Effects Yes, yes, super awesome is a horrible headline, but when the page tells you how to make your own version of A Scanner Darkly and the Scarface poster, you should stop complaining (tags: photoshop photos howto) Voting with their hearts | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited LongContinue reading “links for 2007-08-09”

The design llama: CONTAINERSHIP POWERSUPPLY Shame it’s only a prototype, this is a brilliant idea for making a plug socket extender look good (tags: design house power) Ironic Sans: Photos from the Galapagos Islands Great set of photos from the islands that inspired Darwin (tags: photos travel galapagos animals) The August silly season | MediaContinue reading “links for 2007-08-03”

Hack Attack: Take Launchy beyond application launching – Lifehacker I’m a big fan of the Windows command line add on called Launchy and this Lifehacker post about using it to do more than fire up apps is excellent (tags: launchy howto windows)

TANK BOOKS – Tales to take your breath away Clever idea to package books in the style of flip-top, brightly coloured ciagrette boxes [via Boing Boing] (tags: books design literature marketing)