Okay so Bearfire Resort, located near Dallas, TX, is going to have a huge mountain of fake snow. Not manmade snow, but some weirdo plastic polymer franken-snow.
Fake snow. via core77 via geekologie
Fake snow
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Interesting design links
I should separate this into two posts, so as to watch my blog grow, but whatever.
Business card calendar design challenge. – An interesting challenge to fit a year’s calendar on a business card in a legible way. Lot of the designs have overlapping features, but all pretty good.
Pentagram 2008 Typography Calendar. – Just going to copy/paste the description.
Kit Hinrichs has designed Pentagram’s 2008 Classic Typographic Calendar using twelve typefaces designed by typographer Matthew Carter including Walker (originally designed in 1995 for the Walker Art Center), Snell Roundhand (a 1966 revival of 17th century English writing master Charles Snell) and Galliard (a 1978 anthology of Roman and Italian styles of French punch-cutter Robert Granjon). “I wanted to bring a new awareness of typographic design through this calendar,” said Hinrichs. “Typefaces are pervasive in our daily lives in everything we read and see around us and yet most people are oblivious of them or the circumstances in which they were created. We can gain a new perspective on our world by studying the origin of typefaces. I hope the calendar will encourage a new sensitivity to the importance of typeface usage and the work of Matthew Carter.”
I’d consider it
While the classic round brilliant cut is still the most popular, apparently square cuts are en vogue. I’m aways away from considering any of this, and I’m a classic style kind of guy, so round brilliant still my preferred choice, but asscher cut very nice as well.
edit: After a little looking, it’s round, cushion, Asscher. If the Tiffany Novo (below) wasn’t so expensive it might cut in before the Asscher.
Names
Guy Kawasaki on picking names for products/companies.
The link to Wordlab’s tools is fun.
Kottke links
Links from Kottke.org. Some older, some newer, I’ve not been to Kottke in awhile, so just things that caught my interest. I might break some of these out into their own posts, maybe not.
NYU students are materialistic! -NYU students would exchange their vote for an iPod Touch or a free ride to NYU. Half said they’d give up their right to vote FOREVER for $1 million. Disenfranchisement for an amount that wouldn’t even buy a 1 bedroom condo in the city they go to school. Even exchanging their vote, for an iPod?! I love Apple, and my iPod (I don’t have a Touch, but I do own an iPhone). But trade my vote for one?
Ninety percent of the students who said they’d give up their vote for the money also said they consider voting “very important” or “somewhat important”; only 10 percent said it was “not important.” Also, 70.5 percent said they believe that one vote can make a difference – including 70 percent of the students who said they’d give up their vote for free tuition.
Yeah, real important. So important that’d you sell it away…
Musical roads. – The Japanese develop roads that play melodys when being traversed at certain speeds. I’m quite certain I’d find this annoying and speed to avoid it. If they want to discourage speeding, they should make a road that generates an annoying tone at high speeds.
Okay, I had like 6 Kottke links, but as I was writing this post, decided not to put them here. Two is enough.
Repost
I’ve posted about TED Talks before. And I’ll probably post about it again. But entertaining, enlightening, education (oooh like the alliteration do you? Though is it actually alliteration? I’ve read definitions of alliteration that only deal with consonance and not assonance). Usually all at the same time.
I don’t think this would fly in the US
Wabi-Sabi
An Earnest Cut and Sew – Styledash
I don’t know if I’d ever put standard ES denim near the phrase wabi-sabi, but maybe this is different with the customization? I wouldn’t go so far as to say wabi-sabi can only be used with raw denim, and I don’t know if you can get raw denim at the ES shop, but something about ES just doesn’t scream wabi-sabi to me.
Here is an interesting blog post on wabi-sabi. Maybe I linked to it before, I don’t remember and am too lazy to check. I got it way back from AYN blog
I’m not a sneakerhead
Reebok Voltron Package | Nice Kicks
Nor am I a 80s geek. But it was the decade of my childhood. And Voltron would kick Power Rangers ass anyday! I wouldn’t buy these, but I like the idea nonetheless.