2010-12-23 These minimalist designs are lovely failures 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... more
2010-10-15 Education as production line This is a brilliant animation featuring education reform & creativity expert Ken Robinson. His central thesis is that all modern education systems are built on... more
2010-10-14 I wish 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... more
2010-10-12 The scrapped new Gap logo is nothing like Tropicana or other branding disasters 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... more
2010-09-30 Thoughts about the Forest Park bike access decision (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... more
2010-09-09 Don’t walk your bike up a hill 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... more
2010-08-09 The thing about Drupal 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... more
2010-07-27 Job advice for recent grads; and working at Mercy Corps 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... more
2010-07-26 “How then do I live it?” 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... more
2010-05-24 Teaching, for Non-Teachers 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,... more
2010-05-17 Facebook, the new town directory 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... more
2010-04-06 What has it got in its pocketses? 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... more
2010-04-02 Three stories about “Tough + Fun” 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... more
2010-04-01 Fun + Tough 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:... more
2010-03-12 Don’t make the stylesheet grep for you 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... more
2010-03-08 Mountain Bikes 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 in... more
2010-01-26 When is an “accident” not “unintentional?” 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... more
2010-01-07 Today I learned about Lady Gaga ...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... more
2010-01-04 Oregon’s new hands-free cel phone law ...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.... more
