The stupidest thing I’ve done in a while

Shortly after moving to New York I added the NY Marathon to my to-do list and started running. I’ve always been somewhat athletic, but my style falls more in the sprinter category than long distance runner.
After a couple months of steady running, I competed in a …

When Flash totally redeems itself

Allow me to present this awesome interactive “music video” from Virginia de Labuat, an enchanting songstress from Barcelona. This has already won a “site of the day” award from FWA, and it needs more recognition.

Do yourself a favor and check this out. It …

Friday linkup 10/31

So, I didn't really post a lot today, but that's because I was busy [I swear!].

Like every other blogger keen on pumping out content that doesn't take any work to generate, here's my list of interesting and note worth links that I found this week, and would like to …

Global Warming by NEL

Jez from It's Nice That opened my eyes to a cool group of witty designers from Mexico called NEL who recently released a new project called "Global Warming":

"Global Warming contrasts 'the comfort and softness of a rug with a thorny problem that is specific to our time"

United Change

The Obama campaign has inspired some of very creative (political) art. Shepard Fairey of OBEY (his contribution, currently hanging on my wall), Scott Hansen of ISO50 (his contribution), and others.

This is one of my favorites. A very clever transformation of the …

Best 404 EVER

via BEEP

Use Amazon S3 as your CDN

So there's been a lot of design around here lately. Some would say "too much." So to balance it out, here's some geek talk to keep the nerds happy.

Do you think Amazon's S3 service is the best thing since sliced bread? A lot of people do, including myself. It …

New duoh.com launches!

The much anticipated re-launch of Duoh.com, the business site of Veerle Pieters and Geert Leyseele, is finally live.

It is just brimming with colors and angles. I don't think I've spent enough time to pass judgment, but I highly recommend you check it out.

For more …

Supermandolini Badges

Supermandolini has an excellent collection of themed "badges" or pins as they are known stateside.

NOTCOT is all hot and bothered for these design software themed ones:

If you spend the same amount of time we do designing then these tools should be part of your DNA by …

Syncronized talking points

The video speaks for itself:

via Marco

American Stories, American Solutions

The Obama campaign released their upcoming 30-minute commercial to youtube.

If my footer didn't give it away, I'm a big Obama supporter.

The importance of customer service

Warning: this is a long post. I hope you like minutiae and bicycles, because you are about to get a lot of both. Don't fit that category? Skip on over to the new Design section.

There are very few ingredients in the company/customer relationship more important than …

If the iPhone and the Newton had a baby

via Nick McGlynn

Bikes bikes bikes bikes

Did you like that last post about bikes? Yes? Awesome, because here are a bunch of rad videos to get you through your day. No? Too bad.

San Francisco

Seattle

Aaand then there's New York

The last two videos were the product of this past Saturday's rainy but …

Scoot

What a great design on this vintage Skippy Racer scooter. I wish there was more of this type of aesthetic being produced today.

via Signal vs. Noise.

NYTimes' VizLab

I came across a post today on Infosthetics about the New York Times' partnership with Many Eyes (an IBM company) to create a "Visualization Laboratory." Their goal is "to allow newspaper readers to visualize and comment on information and data sets presented by Times …

Alka Seltzer ad campaign

I love this new campaign from Alka Seltzer. Subtle yet effective.

Via Fubiz

Citro

Not being a connoisseur of

Got pirate posters?

Hot new work from San Francisco based Office (the company, not the band) has turned up in the 826 Valencia store.

Some of my favorites:

Best quote of the day: "Cannons don't sink ships. Pirates with cannons sink ships."

via Design Milk

SEO is bullshit

"SEO is using deodorant instead of washing. SEO is masking bad coffee with sugar. SEO is cramming instead of studying. SEO is using pain killers instead of going to the dentist. SEO is taking weight loss pills instead of exercising. SEO is a comb-over. SEO is …