These minimalist designs are lovely failures 2010-12-23 I'm a minimalist but the art director in me says: all but two or three of these are design failures. Don't get me wrong, they...
Education as production line 2010-10-15 This is a brilliant animation featuring education reform & creativity expert Ken Robinson. His central thesis is that all modern education systems are built on...
I wish 2010-10-14 I wish I knew how to surf, and how to make things with my own hands. I never tried the first and I fail repeatedly...
The scrapped new Gap logo is nothing like Tropicana or other branding disasters 2010-10-12 Because every designer is apparently required to have an opinion about the (now scrapped) new Gap logo, I feel compared to clarify:This design monstrosity is...
Thoughts about the Forest Park bike access decision 2010-09-30 (From a comment I left on BikePortland.org, more info here) I have two dogs in this fight. So I've spent a few hours thinking about...
Don’t walk your bike up a hill 2010-09-09 Tonight on my ride home up Montgomery Drive I passed a woman walking her bike up the hill. Don't ever do this.I've written previously about...
15 Albums in 15 Minutes 2010-08-23 Reposted from a Facebook thing that’s been going around (I put some footnotes as to why these albums are in my head FOREVAR. I had...
What’s your earliest memory? 2010-08-10 Orion is demonstrating a pretty remarkable memory these days. He’ll recall events of several months ago in detail, for example, or remember offhand comments about...
The thing about Drupal 2010-08-09 I have not been feeling the Drupal love lately. Drupal seems hell-bent on making my designs as difficult as possible. I thought this reflected either...
Job advice for recent grads; and working at Mercy Corps 2010-07-27 I get “networked” a lot, especially now that I’m working at Mercy Corps (which is a really great place to work). Similarly, a lot of...
“How then do I live it?” 2010-07-26 Dave Moulton writes:Pro-cycling change is happening all over the US, and I believe it is partly because of this change that the non cycling public...
Obsess less, ride more 2010-07-08 So I did something really extreme. I took all the cyclometers off my bikes. Lemme ’splain. I’ve been going a little nuts lately. Like “sudden...
How many bikes have I owned (since college)? 2010-06-22 Short answer: twelve. Last week someone asked me how many bikes I own and have owned. I couldn’t give a straight answer. So I made...
Teaching, for Non-Teachers 2010-05-24 My wife is a teacher and I help her a lot with creating and planning computery classroom things. I used to work at a school,...
Facebook, the new town directory 2010-05-17 For two years in college (1990–1991) I shelved books at the University of Nebraska’s Love Library. One day I discovered a whole class of reference...
What has it got in its pocketses? 2010-04-06 I’m in Seattle right now for a web conference. When I travel I’m highly aware of my usual patdown routine. This is the thing I...
Three stories about “Tough + Fun” 2010-04-02 ONEThis morning when I got the trailer loaded up in POURING FRICKING RAIN I thought “today is a ‘tough’ day, not a ‘fun’ day.” Before...
Fun + Tough 2010-04-01 Today, peopleforbikes.org asked me to share my ideas about “improving the future of cycling.” Here’s what I wrote them:Check out this ad, for the Gap:...
Don’t make the stylesheet grep for you 2010-03-12 For the last decade or so, every time I wanted to design something like a “subheader,” I’d code it like this: <h3 class="subheader">This is a...
Mountain Bikes♥ 2010-03-08 Dave Moulton wrote today about the evolution of mountain biking. He asked for his readers’ “take on the period” — here’s mine: I grew up...
Yesterday I received a transmission from the 2030s 2010-03-03 Orion’s been home sick a few times lately. Because my work schedule is more flexible I’m the one who gets to stay home with him....
When is an “accident” not “unintentional?” 2010-01-26 So I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent sentencing of Antonio Cellestine in the hit-and-run death of Gordon Patterson. Mr. Cellestine was, by his...
Today I learned about Lady Gaga 2010-01-07 ...via a music-related internet discussion group consisting mainly of people I know in the Real World™ (i.e. 30- to 40-something white people, mostly male). Prior...
Oregon’s new hands-free cel phone law 2010-01-04 ...has not apparently rendered Oregon drivers any less inattentive.I’m all YAY for this new law but it feels like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic....
