Dan Weingrod

msg: meaghannolan: landscapearchitecture: Tokyo’s subway...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:20:28 -0400

meaghannolan:

landscapearchitecture:

Tokyo’s subway system is arguably one of the most complex in the world. The map itself can be an immediate turn-off for any unfamiliarized straphangar. But exactly how do all these lines run underground, overlapping as they carry hundreds of thousands of passengers each day?

Tokyo University graduate student Takatsugu Kuriyama decided to answer that question be recreating an accurate three-dimensional model of Tokyo’s lifeline by using multi-colored tubes strung with wire. Different color liquids pulsate throughout all 18 lines, creating a staggering picture of what goes on below the streets of Tokyo every day.

WOAH this makes me want to go back to Tokyo even more

A Version of events: Advertising is dying. Long live design

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:00:34 -0400

A Version of events: Advertising is dying. Long live design:

aversionofevents:

Design is thinking made visual – Saul Bass

Good design is good business – Thomas Watson

Once upon a time it was easy buying products.

We’re talking 150 years ago here. You went to the guy who sold soap. Maybe he had a shop. You bought the soap off the guy. If he was a nice chap, then even…

Guess this had to happen

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:57:06 -0400

Guess this had to happen

"…a product is an experience that occurs in the moment. A service is a relationship that..."

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:30:24 -0400

““…a product is an experience that occurs in the moment. A service is a relationship that extends over time and across platforms and mediums. A brand is much more than the logo; it is the pattern our brains expect based on everything we have previously heard, seen, and felt. All of these components roll up into the larger experience.””

- http://10x10.method.com/whos-the-chief-experience-officer/

Marci Ikeler: Why I Left Advertising

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:25:56 -0400

Marci Ikeler: Why I Left Advertising:

marciikeler:

Recently, I made the decision to leave advertising behind, at least temporarily. Yesterday was my last day at Grey.

I come from a digital product design background. Three years ago, I decided to move into the ad world. I really liked being surrounded by creative people and working across…

Robotic Falconery

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:48:16 -0400

Awesome. First demonstration of robotic aircraft perching on hand.

The best part, (for me at least), of Iain Tate's W&K departure post

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:18:07 -0400

“…what I really want to do with my life it to get closer to the shaping of the connected world. For me that means getting deeper into the shaping of products and services, showing people the life-enhancing potential of technology, and helping to get those things into peoples’ hands.”

The entire post is well worth reading too. It’s here.

Too Many Red P's

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:46:31 -0400

Watching Mets v Phillies yesterday I realized that there were way too many red P’s in my daily life for me to handle.

Touchable Movies from Berg

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:44:45 -0400

Movies you can manipulate. More at Fastcodesign.

General Grant regrets sending that tweet

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:46:16 -0400

Happened to see this review of the book “When General Grant Expelled the Jews”, by Jonathan Sarna, (who oddly enough I went to college with).

The book tells the true, hardly-ever-been-told Passover-like story of Grant’s expulsion of the Jewish community of Paducah KY during the civil war, but what I really caught my eye is Grant’s reason for why it became a story in the first place. According to Grant the order:

“would never have been issued if it had not been telegraphed the moment it was penned, and without reflection.”

If he had only taken a moment and thought before hitting send…

SXSW 2012: We made this, and it’s not an ad View more presentations from Duncan/Channon

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:17:19 -0400

SXSW 2012: We made this, and it’s not an ad

View more presentations from Duncan/Channon

SXSW 2012: We made this, and it’s not an ad View more presentations from Duncan/Channon

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:16:02 -0400

SXSW 2012: We made this, and it’s not an ad

View more presentations from Duncan/Channon

Minimalist economics posters from the oh-so-clever gang at...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:50:00 -0400

Minimalist economics posters from the oh-so-clever gang at Planet Money.

Nike's March Madness

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:22:00 -0400

From what I heard it seems that Nike blew the March doors open at SXSW with its big presence and Fuel Band giveaway.

At the same time it managed to blow the wind in the wrong direction with the launch of the Black and Tan shoes.

Ostensibly named to highlight a well know St. Patrick’s day beverage Nike committed three fouls with this shoe, especially in Ireland, by:

Not realizing that Black and Tan is not just a drink, but the name of a British supported paramilitary group that committed many cruelties in Ireland in the 1920’s.
Further pushing the association with drinking by including an image of a pint in the shoe’s sole.
Saying that they really hadn’t meant it when it was clear that the image of the pint in the shoe sole had been planned for a long time

NPR has the whole story here including quotes from an annoyed Irish journalist.