Thursday, 13 August 2009

How to start your own neighbourhood solar power cooperative

So crazy, it just might work.

LA Times redesigns

Very clean.

Interview with Dan Clowes

The McSweeney’s conversation with Dan Clowes includes good details about the personalities of those wrote for MAD vs those who wrote for Cracked. Plus Don Martin who swung for both sides.

Pagemasters North America

Pagemasters, the Australian outfit to which many UK and Oz newspapers have outsourced their editing has set up a North American operation – co-owned with the Canadian Press

Fiji Water

Obama sips it. Paris Hilton loves it. Mary J. Blige won’t sing without it. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?

Glassless poster frames

I am posting this here mainly so I don’t forget – I need these.

Cinematography of MadMen

A beautiful video essay.

The Impossible Cool

Irresistible.

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

New York Review of Ideas on Khoi Vinh

The New York Review of Ideas is off to a good start with this piece on New York Times design director Khoi Vinh and the breaking down of the wall between editorial and design.

The 12 most interesting inhabited bridges

Surreal single house bridge designs to Zaha Hadids sleek Zaragoza Expo bridge .