#design

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/thrilling-won...

Were I not required to be in the office on Friday, I would be here. If you are in London, and do no...

http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/index.html

An archive and commentary on some very very striking SF cover design. Well worth a look.

http://www.kottke.org/09/04/media-packaging-mashup...

Jason Kottke's round up of well, exactly what is says - media packing redone in various distinctive...

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/meet-mr-chi...

An interview with a man who reckons that he's designed logos for 90% of the fried chicken restaurant...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlepixel/sets/7215...

Someone has taken classic record covers, and re-imagined them as Pelican book covers. This is absol...

http://www.core77.com/blog/news/john_thackara_desi...

He starts out spelling how we're fucked on an economic and environmental level. And then he gets in...

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jacek_utko_asks...

After the links the other week, here's a talk about how they newspapers might yet be kept alive: by...

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/03/23/t...

"Yes, halfway through this project we'll discover the impossible, but we know how to build through t...

http://www.bratton.info/emergency.html

Highlight " Because as software becomes a medium through which the city is accessed and made social,...

http://www.paulos.net/papers/2009/manifesto2009.ht...

"We have failed in our duty to open up alternate forums for technology to express itself and touch o...

http://www.susannahertrich.com/html/chrono_shredde...

I want one of these. A lot of her other work is worth a look too, but I really want one of these.

http://vimeo.com/3365942

Very pretty short film - a simple plot description will not do it justice, so just go watch. It's t...

http://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blo...

An address given in 2005 to the RSA about design and the world we live in. No earth shattering insi...

http://askpang.typepad.com/relevant_history/2009/0...

"we need to learn to talk about the future through things"

http://www.chronophage.co.uk/prerelease.htm

This is a dozen kinds of cool. Made slightly less so by a particularly rubbish website, but take th...