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Does everyone know about this great Flickr search toolbut me? (Thanks to Darrel Frost.) [MB] 06.29.06 | PERMALINK
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Does everyone know about this great Flickr search toolbut me? (Thanks to Darrel Frost.) [MB] A slide show of the 2006 IDEA Awards, sponsored by the IDSA and Business Week. To quote Bruce Nussbaum: "We live in an age where capital is plentiful, labor is available but talent is in short supply. And true design talent is in very short supply." [MB] New frontiers in taco design. (Thanks to Drew Freeman.) [MB] Chowhound, the forum for the eating-obsessed, unveils a surprisingly unmessy redesign. (Thanks to Mark Lamster.) [MB] The war at home in Williamsburg: how a gruesome battle over doorjamb colors is destroying a once-peaceful Brooklyn apartment bulding. [MB] Researchers from University of Alberta and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana present "How Nothing Became Something: White Space, Rhetoric, History and Meaning," the first scholarly paper to trace the history of...white space. (For the truly curious, full text available by subscription here.) (Thanks to Su.) [MB] Podcasts of presentations from the TED conferences, featuring Al Gore, Sir Ken Robinson, Majora Carter, David Pogue, Tony Robbins and Hans Rosling. [MB] Seven pieces of advice for tomorrow's graphic designer. Number 6: "Realise that design is the new management consultancy." [MB] Electrolux Design Lab 2006: a global student design competition. [MB] On view in Zurich at the Pinakothek der Moderne: the extraordinary opera posters of Pierre Mendel. [MB] It's classic Superman week at Refrederator. "Nowadays, Hollywood prefers its comic book adaptations to draw heavy parallels with classic mythologies and ancient tragedies. But the 19 Superman cartoons released in 1941 through 1944 play a lot more like American Tall Tales of the Paul Bunyan variety." [MB] Ontario: great new logo, same great province! Now in its second year, the "Art of Science" exhibition at Princeton is stirring up some interesting work. [WD] An archive of theatrical trailers, from Adam's Rib to Zorro Rides Again. (Via Coudal.) [MB] Nepotism alert: MPD. [MB] Slate's redesign, "presented by Nissan," (?) reflects the wise consul of design firm Helicopter. "They encouraged us to scrap our spindly old logo and limit our use of maroon." Always limit your use of maroon. [MB] The best t-shirts, according to Momus. [MB] 25 Above Water, the poster exhibition and sale supporting Gulf Coast relief efforts by the American Red Cross, has been extended until September 15, 2006. [MB] What's wrong with the Shake Shack? (Other than the lines, I mean.) [MB] Get your daily dose of new art at vvork.com. (Thanks to Dmitri Siegel.) [MB] Core77 previews and reviews the Aspen Design Summit: day one, day two, day three, day four. [MB] "My premise is simply stated: If we can design our way into difficulty, we can design our way out."John Thakara interviews himself. (Via Unbeige.) [MB] The development of Iranian logos, from the first print shop in 1190 to today. [MB] Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the US Interstate Highway System by considering the slow-road movement, championed by the Project for Public Spaces. Also, what is it exactly that makes I-238 so bizarre? [MB] The New York Times rounds up some recent (and not-so-recent) corporate identity makeovers. [MB] How do we feel? If you're a real estate broker, happy. Too happy. (Via Curbed.) [MB] How do we feel? We Feel Fine harvests human feelings from around the world. "Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases 'I feel' and 'I am feeling.'" (Thanks to Tim Gambell.) [MB] Finally, a desktop interface as hopelessly messy as a real desk. (Thanks to David Vogler.) [MB] Thoughts on "unpredictable, interpreted creativity being performed within formal systems." Or, John Cage's unacknowledged influence on Argentinian football.[MB] Samir Husni, PhD. is Mr. Magazine. (Thanks to Joe Moran.) [MB] Russian Utopia is a repository of of 480 unbuilt architectural projects from the last 300 years of Russian history. [MB] Antenna Design's Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger webcasting on the Walker Channel. (Thanks to Rob Giampietro.) [MB] John Maeda attempts to visualize the genocide in Darfur, with limited success. "Simplicity is really no good when it hides important complexities." [MB] Light Objects is a new design competition from Core77 and Dassault Systèmes to create design concepts that are thoughtful, forward-looking, elegant and environmentally beneficial. [MB] Where do we get our news and who controls what we consume? Mapping America's sprawling infotainment complex. (Thanks to Dmitri Siegel.) [MB] Because literacy starts in the crib: Alphabet Baby Linens. (Thanks to Rob Giampietro.) [MB] G24 is a new service from The Guardian which allows readers to download and print out a rolling version of the newspaper, updated every 15 minutes. [MB] Slate's Seth Stevenson reviews Wes Anderson's (fantastic) American Express commercial: "The brief, bounded format of a commercial plays to Anderson's strengths and hides his weaknesses. No need to develop believable characters or to build organically motivated relationships between them (things Anderson has never managed to pull off in a film—though it may be he simply has no interest in them). Here he can just indulge his greatest talents: set pieces, art direction, whimsy, ironic bombast." [MB] 
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