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Totally Late Post On A Post-Election Reflections
On November 5th, I noted an important turning point in my media, among all the celebration of electing Barack Obama. I didn’t watch any of the TV coverage on election night. I just had a few websites open to track … Continue reading
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Awesome People I Met/Saw At The New York Art Book Fair
I finally made it to the New York Art Book Fair after being out of town last year. I think I learned about the first one a couple of days after it ended, which is quite typical for me. In … Continue reading
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What is the Role of the Anthropologist?
Image source: cultureby.com On Saturday, I got to hear Grant McCracken speak at the AIGA GAIN conference in New York. I documented that I was going to the talk in my usual way of writing a quick note in twitter, … Continue reading
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Seven things that everyone should know about the New York Subway.
Image source: flickr 1. If you are waiting for a train, and the incoming train cars go, packed, empty, packed… do NOT enter the empty car. The *best* case scenario is that the AC is broken. 2. The subway trains … Continue reading
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My Longstanding Issue With Blog Interfaces.
Something has been confusing and annoying me basically since I started reading blogs. It’s one of those slight annoying things, where a little design considering would make the issue irrelevant. When reading or searching blogs, the bottom of the screen … Continue reading
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A Fork In the Browser Road
Image source: flickr Well, the internet is buzzing with the discussions and reviews of Google’s recently release browser, Chrome. Nick Carr has some good thoughts on the subject, his key take aways: “To Google, the browser has become a weak … Continue reading
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Home Delivery At MOMA: Computational Architecture.
I’ve been to the Home Delivery show at MOMA twice on sunny weekends this summer. The show on prefabricated architecture is overall well curated. However, the true brilliance of the show is that they have full scale models of six … Continue reading
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How Ethical is Ethical?
Image source: LifeStraw Even though I haven’t posted much recently (sorry for that, especially when I got some nice links, Thanks Noah. Frontstudio.) I have been thinking a lot about the ethics of design. One post from Rob Walker’s murketing … Continue reading
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The Architecture Of Business Schools: Reflection Of A Society
“Bow down before the one you serve, you’re going to get what you deserve.” – Trent Renzor, Nine Inch Nails I recently went to a conference on location-based services hosted by Columbia University’s Business School. The conference panels had some … Continue reading
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The Windmill And The Lighthouse
Image source: flickr Image source: flickr On the way out to Provincetown from Boston, a few weeks ago, I noticed a sole windmill on the shore, largely ignored by the passengers on the ferry. However, on the other side I … Continue reading
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