September 2008

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Sep 08 2008

Lartigue, Avedon, and Wes Anderson by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Aesthetics, Art, Associative Thought, Film, Inspiration, Remix, photography
It's been duly noted that Wes Anderson took inspiration from Jaques Henri Lartigue. For one, the shot of Max Fischer (played by Jason Schwartzman) as founder of the Yankee Racers is clearly homage to Lartigue's image of his brother on a "bobsled with wheels". Furthermore, his brother's name is Zissou and any Anderson fan will tell you that Zissou is the name of Bill Murray's character in The Life Aquatic. [caption id="attachment701" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Jacques Henri Lartigue"][/caption] [caption id="attachment702" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Max Fischer, founder of Yankee Racers"][/caption] As I was exploring the late Richard Avedon's portfolio, I came across this image of a ...
Sep 07 2008

Bill Gates, Ice Bear by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Misplaced Thoughts
[caption id="attachment_717" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Bill Gates is Ice Bear"][/caption]
Sep 07 2008

Upcoming Design Festivals by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Design, Travel, events
For all you design globetrotters: London Design Festival is coming up on September 13-23, 2008. Design Miami/Basel will take place from December 3-6, 2008.
Sep 07 2008

Richard Avedon by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Art, Film, photography
[caption id="attachment_695" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Cole Porter by Richard Avedon"][/caption] Richard Avedon photography portfolio.
Sep 06 2008

Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Advertising, Computers, Iconoclasm, Software, video
JS: Churro? BG: I'm good. via NotCot
Sep 06 2008

númi on Flickr by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Aesthetics, Architecture, Art, photography
Flickr member, númi, only has 18 posted photos, but they're all fantastic. Hasselblad shots of abandoned buildings in Iceland. [caption id="attachment_815" align="aligncenter" width="499" caption="númi on Flickr"][/caption]
Sep 05 2008

Why hasn’t this been done already? by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Design, Engineering, Interaction Design, Pragmatism, Product Design, Sustainable Design
[caption id="attachment_675" align="aligncenter" width="468" caption="U-Cap by Jeong Hoon Cha"][/caption] "U-Cap", designed by Jeong Hoon Cha, has an eccentric shape to make it easier to manipulate screw-on caps. Has this been done before? (via Yanko Design.)
Sep 03 2008

Marshalite Alternative Traffic Light by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Data Presentation, Design, Engineering, Perceived Value, Pragmatism, Travel, Visualization, history, transportation
[caption id="attachment_638" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Marshalite Traffic Signal"][/caption] Charles Marshall designed this alternative traffic light in 1936 and it was put to use in Australia from the 1940's through the 1970's. The benefit of knowing the signal phase timing is apparent, but so is the abuse of such a device. Besides the ambiguity of timing for red, yellow, and green that is solved by the traditional Boolean lights that we are familiar with, there's also the inability to adjust the signal phase timing if road work or new traffic patterns require changes. (via Information Aesthetics)
Sep 02 2008

Bruce Nussbaum on product testing in the marketplace by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Apple, Code, Computers, Design, Engineering, Product Design, Software, interview, video
So Google just released a beta version of their Chrome browser without offering software for Mac OSX and Linux users. That fact was the content of my previous post. This is one major example of companies doing their product testing in the marketplace. The trend of early adopters as unpaid software testers was one of the major messages in BusinessWeek innovation writer Bruce Nussbaum's interview with David Armano of Critical Mass (no, not the overly-political and generally-counter-productive bicycle thing.) If you don't have time for the whole half-hour interview, jump to 18:08 for the discussion of product testing ...
Sep 02 2008

Google announces web browser by David Goligorsky
Filed under: Branding, Code, Computers, GUI, Interaction Design, Product Design, Software
[caption id="attachment_647" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="Google Chrome"][/caption] Google has entered the browser arena with open-source Google Chrome. Here's a post from the official Google blog regarding the application. There's even a cartoon introduction of the new software. Screenshots available here. The beta software should become available today at 11am PDT for Windows users. Mac OSX and Linux users will have to wait for their release. UPDATE: The browser is now available to Windows users as a beta over at the official Google Chrome site. You can sign up for email updates to stay abreast of developments for Mac OSX ...

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