Loving this site because I wasn’t sure if I was the only person that did stuff like this when I was bored/frustrated at the status quo of information design. Best part is the resulting visual conversation that emerged from the widely acknowledged need for the boarding pass overhaul, which is surprisingly carrier agnostic. I love how the process is revealed from rough sketches to finished design to someone adding the most personal of touches (necessary with a crowded market of identical offerings) below. Via Core77.
I accidentally deleted a bunch of stuff from last week due to sleep deprivation. Good news is that they were online long enough to be cached by Google (which is awesome/scary), and were easy to recover. Bad news is that the text formatting is shot to shit for some reason and my color/content rhythm is similarly affected. But it’s better than a complete loss I suppose…..wordpress recovery tips were easy to find here.
I want one, but want to build one myself even more. These hand made beaties are crafted from 5/8” beech wood casing, and old-school red LED clock smoked acrylic faces . Love the faux speaker pattern. From a components and wiring standpoint these really don’t seem all that difficult to be honest. If you prefer to pay for that DIY look all seem to be around the $100 range, you can get them here.
I would love to see using 3D objects as templates for printing as an emerging trend because on it’s own I wasn’t as impressed with the print above until I saw the image below. This got me thinking about my college printmaking class and how this would have been the ultimate low-input/high-output approach to a final project. Little effort compared to intaglio process, cheap, easy to alter, making it perfect for a series.
All that needs to be done in order to pull these off (no pun intended) is a slight adjustment in the distance between the roller and the print bed underneath, and a variance in the pressure applied to make sure the dice themselves don’t crack. Either way, it’s labor intensive as hell compared to a typical offset three color print but worth the effort. Get your own from each 100 print run of various patterns ($100-250) here. Via TodayAndTomorrow.
I recently came to the realization that there are a lot of Usability-related items out there online that I don’t post about on a regular basis. Maybe it’s because it shows off my passion for cognitive processes, or it could possibly be due the fact that research simply isn’t a hot topic for most people. Either way, in an effort to show how split-brained I am I plan on posting one of these ’roundups’ every week or so. Enjoy….or ignore I suppose. 
A great process-related .pdf from The Big ReThink conference that shows the importance of being able to sketch (rebranded as ‘Scribing’?) in order to create system maps and illustrate process can be downloaded here. Check out an old article titled ‘Whats In A Number?’ that touches on validating the Virzi approach to usability testing in no smaller sample size than eight. Scrolling and Attention is a recent post from Jacob Nielson which shows that just because content is ‘below the fold’ doesn’t mean that it isn’t as important, or that people won’t read it.
Headed home sick for the afternoon…..so tired I spelled ‘confusion’ wrong.
Genius concept, I’m sure it’s more valuable for Paparazzi than anyone else but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be kewl to have. On second glance forget about paying for something like this when you can spend an hour or two modifying an existing bag. Or just throwing together another one….for less than $50. Via Uncrate.
At $2,800 items like this define ‘Limited Edition.’ Not sure what this actually does but still kind of want one? Me too…..Check out the video below for how a lower-end model functions. I assume the higher end would follow suit in terms of the input/response relationship.
http://www.vimeo.com/8301567
Either way it’s stuff like this that convinces me I need a machine shop, or at least access to a laser-cutter+cnc. That being said I still wouldn’t be able to play one like it’s an instrument due to my painful lack of rhythm. Via IA’s killer twitter stream.
No idea how long it will take trademark lawyers to catch up with the makers of Fight Club Soap, so get it while you can. I think that Chuck Palahniuk himself would appreciate knowing these were out there, and that they are safe to use. Even if you are going to mount them on your wall, I’m still not sure how anyone feels about paying $25 for a pair of bars of soap. Oh wait, people do it all the time at Ulta, right? Via uncrate
Love these photos of Japanese bikes, showing that if you don’t have a car you still have the basic need to express individuality via transportation. Think cars without the obnoxious after-market kits with their over-sized spoilers. Except in this case I would think that ‘modding’ is more ubiquitous given the lower cost required to create something unique vs. the social cost of riding something stock. Via FixedGearGallery.
