I had the chance last night to see the new Will Ferrell flick, Stranger Than Fiction. In the film, Ferrell plays Harold Crick, a strictly regimented IRS agent living in Chicago whose life is turned upside-down when he discovers that every event in his life is decided by the pen of an omnipotent author.
To illustrate [...]
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Keeping Score
Produced by the San Francisco Symphony, Keeping Score is a project designed to, show that classical music can speak to everyone and instill a lifelong love of music through the use of pervasive media.
Part of the Keeping Score initiative are interactive flash websites showcasing selected classical masterpieces, and the history and music theory behind them. [...]
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FedEx Hub Animation
This fantastic animation shows the flight paths of hundreds of FedEx aircraft over the span of two days and elegantly illustrates the brilliance of the hub-processing model of package handling.
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Chloroflot 2006 Design Salary Survey
Chloroflot.com has just published it’s 2006 Design Salary Survey, in which they asked different types of designers all over the world how much they rake in every year. To my surprise, Hong Kong towers over the rest of the world in times of the kind of living the average designer makes, a whopping $93,607 salary. [...]
Currugated Cardboard Laptop Case
For this fall’s [re]Design exhibit in London, Giles Miller of Farm Designs decided to put a sustainable spin on something many of us use and rely on every day; the common laptop case. Taking cues from Frank Gehry’s Wiggle Side chair, Miller designed and built an elegant and sturdy looking carrier for his Apple PowerBook [...]
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Ikea TROFE Cofee Mug
Possibly the least expensive and most innovative products from Norse furniture powerhouse Ikea is the TORFE coffee mug. What at first glance seems to be a simple ceramic mug hides a cunning piece of industrial design that solves a problem almost everyone has had to deal with; water pooling in the base of an upturned [...]
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