December 2009
2000-2010... From a Design Perspective
moltenmich:
kristybits:
2000 No Logo, Naomi Klein’s treatise on anti-globalization, sets the tone for the decade’s debates about consumerism and branding. Tech stocks plummet, signaling the official burst of the dot-com bubble. Thousands of newly-minted web designers are laid off. San Francisco’s cafes swell with unemployed creatives paying inflated rents. Dwell publishes its first issue,...
moltenmich:
“This scenario, of this civilization, was about becoming powerful, intelligent, like this idea we have invented, this concept of God.
We are God now. We are. It’s almost done.
We have just to finish the story. That is very, very important. …
… No, you must really understand that. And the beauty of this, in perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization,...
Misdirected Letters to Santa
nickbennettusa:
Every year, due to some mix up in the United States Postal Service, I receive thousands of letters addressed to Santa from children all over the country. It must have something to do with the similarity in out names (Saint Nick/Nick Bennett) because I don’t live anywhere near the North Pole. Nonetheless, in the spirit of the holidays I though it would be rude not to respond to...
sketchysantas.com →
nickbennettusa:
rroobbiinn:
Hilarious!
As a person who regularly convinces children to sit on his lap, I see nothing wrong with this website. Happy holidays everybody.
HAH!
More On Being Unrealistic
theessentialman:
Cloak. Fall 2004. Robert Geller and Alexandre Plokhov. I remember sitting in front of my computer and thinking to myself, that is what I want to wear. This is what I want to create.
I quit fine arts. Moved to New York. Got myself into Parsons School of Design.
Today, a television crew came in to our studio to film us for a show.
That is me, in the mirror taking a photo....
rroobbiinn:
jakelodwick:
New video we made on Thursday night. It’s all improvised!
Download the mp3: j.mp/6vc8c5
Download the video in high-quality: j.mp/5Debe6 (this is the best way to watch it)
If you like it, reblog it!
(also on YouTube)
I’m in this!
Patent filings fell in 2009 for the first time in 13 years.
– Recession’s latest victim: U.S. innovation (via davemorin)
Could you make my website fit a A4 paper? And please, no scrolling, visitors get...
– (via clientsfromhell)