Monopoly Revolution looks a lot better than it sounds (formulaic, no?) since it’s reincarnation is pretty slick from a product/graphic standpoint. Too bad it comes a little late, but that doesn’t mean that loyal gamers won’t love up on it just the same. There is a flip side to things since it would appear that the fundamentals of the game must have changed to a certain degree to fit the format.
Does having a speaker, keypad, and button array make this a different breed of board game? Will this alienate their base or act to grow their population of users? Regardless, it’s about time that board games took some inspiration from the rest of the world and got with the program for their interaction and product design. Pre-order here for $39.99 Via IfItsHip
This goes beyond bespoke and due to being a one-off it’ the essence of ‘Limited Edition.’ Made from stock pricing data this is the ultimate gift for a company man/woman or anyone heavily involved with finance. It’s a neat concept that emerged from Design Glut’s cheaper, still nicely embroidered option, aptly named ‘Its Ok To Cry’ below.
If snippets like this (with uber-nerd interviewers that ((almost)) make me seem cool) , and i09’s backup reporting of Ryan Reynolds’ close contact with the writers is correct, Deadpool may be the best opportunity for Marvel to capitalize on both the quantity and quality of backstories available. It’s odd that this is the case for a somewhat smaller character in the big picture when it comes to all things X-Men related. Great news for Reynolds since Green Lantern is looking promising as well. Maybe he just happens to be the modern-day embodiment of the snarky comic book anti-hero after all.
I simply love how bizarre my fave threadless tee is, as it elicits immediate laughter. It definitely has that Kid Robot-style disturbing/adorable dual nature.
It’s difficult to keep something like modular furniture fresh, but designer Gordon Guillaumier’s seating system for Italian manufacturer Moroso fits the bill with the dynamic cross-over element that ties the back element to adjacent pieces. What I find interesting is the sparse use of strong color in the purely geometric companion elements that speak in almost a Sottsass/Memphis Style vernacular. Via Contemporist.
Clean lines and use of only one piece of material make this simple, playfully named hook stand out. An innovative metal stamping process creates little waste by somehow producing nearly 300 coat hooks from a single 4′x8′ sheet of steel, after which I assume a powder coating is applied for color. Available in gray, black, and white I believe that this represents a small business innovating out of sheer necessity, in this case driven by process and cost control. The hook also has something which, to me is a very important rare attribute: it’s made in the USA. Available from small batch design/manufacturer Miswell for $22 here.
I posted about how much I missed them last week and how I can’t afford to hit up Coachella and now this surfaces! Love the step up in animation, which oddly enough probably saved them money compared to the old single cell cartoon approach. Can’t wait to see how it translates live….such a teaser.
Chloe is a London-based artist that creates paintings that juxtapose indoor spaces, architecture, people, and wild animals in a surreal manner with the use of a unique illustrative style. Each piece remains unfinished at at least one edge, almost making it seem as if it was part of a dream sequence as yet to be defined. The collective imagery creates truly remarkable settings that also show a degree of sophisitcation in regards to the visual balance and placement of elements. What can I say–I’m a huge fan. See more of her work here or check out her blog here.
Above is the ‘one finger peck’ approach employed by my Dad, who types a blistering ten words per minute. Not sure if it’s a function of time and effort but I have never seen someone diagram the differences beteween typing styles and how they alter digit movement before. This is interesting because it shows the efficiency of touch-typing as opposed to other methods. Most people immediately understand this as a function of Words Per Minute, the last word in metrics is truly one’s raw output.
The ‘two finger peck’ pictured above is predictably only a slight improvement. It’s interesting because I never really think about how I type, I just……….type. Even typing about typing is messing up my rhythm at the moment, leading to increasing mispellings. Touch typing happens without thought in it’s utilitarian manner–each finger owns a fixed zone of the keyboard, anchored by a home key, to which the corresponding fingertip must religiously return after any required movements.
This approach leaves one way, and one way only, to type each character. There is no contest as to what works best. It even looks more efficient and somewhat modern by comparison. The result is a compact, muscle-memory enabled routine of just over 50 unique motions in total. In a way the constant home key adds some finger movement, which wards off a degree of fatigue. Plus it’s fast as hell. Check out the post on WeatherSealed’s blog which breaks it down to a science. Via FlowingData.
Monopoly Revolution looks a lot better than it sounds (formulaic, no?) since it’s reincarnation is pretty slick from a product/graphic standpoint. Too bad it comes a little late, but that doesn’t mean that loyal gamers won’t love up on it just the same. There is a flip side to things since it would appear that the fundamentals of the game must have changed to a certain degree to fit the format.
Above is the ‘one finger peck’ approach employed by my Dad, who types a blistering ten words per minute. Not sure if it’s a function of time and effort but I have never seen someone diagram the differences beteween typing styles and how they alter digit movement before. This is interesting because it shows the efficiency of touch-typing as opposed to other methods. Most people immediately understand this as a function of Words Per Minute, the last word in metrics is truly one’s raw output.
The ‘two finger peck’ pictured above is predictably only a slight improvement. It’s interesting because I never really think about how I type, I just……….type. Even typing about typing is messing up my rhythm at the moment, leading to increasing mispellings. Touch typing happens without thought in it’s utilitarian manner–each finger owns a fixed zone of the keyboard, anchored by a home key, to which the corresponding fingertip must religiously return after any required movements.
This approach leaves one way, and one way only, to type each character. There is no contest as to what works best. It even looks more efficient and somewhat modern by comparison. The result is a compact, muscle-memory enabled routine of just over 50 unique motions in total. In a way the constant home key adds some finger movement, which wards off a degree of fatigue. Plus it’s fast as hell. Check out the post on