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March 12, 2018

The Sorry State of Diversity in Design

A conference room with several identical chairs I wrote an article over at Quartz on diversity in the design industry. These excerpts are the heart of it:…


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Published on March 12, 2018 13:04

March 8, 2018

Movies Watched, February 2018

Still fro “Black Panther” I feel a little sheepish about confessing that I didn’t really like “Black Panther” all that much, especially after the…


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Published on March 08, 2018 07:51

March 6, 2018

Vignelli’s NYC Subway Map as a Children’s Book

Cover for “The Great New York Subway Map” by Emiliano Ponzi Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 New York City Subway Map is well remembered both as a beautiful example of modernist design and…


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Published on March 06, 2018 12:10

March 5, 2018

Straighten Photos on Your Phone

Theater Signage after Lightroom Geometry Manipulation When I take photos I often like to get the composition as square and upright as I can. If there’s…


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Published on March 05, 2018 08:38

February 15, 2018

How to Redesign a Tech Logo

Past and Present Logos from Google, Airbnb, Spotify and Pinterest This incisive tweet from type designer James Edmonson of Oh No Type Co looks like a humorous one-liner but is…


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Published on February 15, 2018 09:07

February 8, 2018

Does the Copyright Office Know Anything about Design?

American Airlines Logo Last week American Airlines failed in its second attempt to register its logo with the U.S. Copyright Office. Apparently the…


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Published on February 08, 2018 09:24

February 6, 2018

Movies Watched, January 2018

Still from “Molly’s Game” At the beginning of January, before everyone came back from the holidays, I indulged myself in what is, for a…


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Published on February 06, 2018 12:07

February 5, 2018

The Parisianer Welcomes You

The Parisianer 2050 at Charles De Gaulle AIrport I’ve seen a decent number of airport art exhibitions in my time, but I’ve never seen one as good and…


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Published on February 05, 2018 18:07

February 1, 2018

Your Train Is Delayed, and The New York Times Thinks That’s Kind of Wacky

Graphic from “Your Train Is Delayed. Why?” from The New York Times This short documentary video that The New York Times posted a few days ago keeps nagging at me. It’s called…


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Published on February 01, 2018 16:16

January 30, 2018

Kevin Is a Smart Fake TV for Deterring Burglaries

Kevin I’ve written here before about my Fake TV, one of my favorite device purchases from last year. It’s a simple,…


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Published on January 30, 2018 08:26

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