A housekeeping post: My fall semester starts Monday, and since I've been dragging a little lately, I took two days off work last week to dust out my head- and living-spaces. The extra-long weekend was EXACTLY what I needed. In the past four days I did lots of laundry, watched pictures moving on screens, went out to three brunches, drew many little illustrations, made salon &… Continue reading

Nomad Drizzle rain shoes. Waterproof rubber flats. &cute! $40 each. I'll take them all…

Last week's episode of Mad Men—like the premiere—didn't really merit a Design Geek Review. It wasn't terribly fabulous, visually or otherwise. (I'm bored of the suburbs.) However, yesterday's was wow! So here are some things that set this Design Geek's heart racing last night: 1.&2. 3. 4.&5… Continue reading

Orange zebra bracelet and green elephant bracelet from Furbish Design Studio.

Three things that made me happy this Sunday:

1. Helvetica poster!
2. Artist's maquette in Peggy's office!
3. Underwood typewriter ad framed above Allison's desk!

This month is all about production. Collaborative art with my boyfriend, making things happen in our apartment, and completing my master's thesis proposal. This last is the biggest news. I found out several weeks ago that Harvard redeveloped my computer science degree program, changing the focus from Digital Media Arts and Sciences to Digital Media and Instructional Design. This is HUGE for three reasons: (1) the degree and its requirements now align… Continue reading

While this "pink turd" (to borrow and slightly tweak Gruber's lovely turn of phrase) is truly, truly hideous, it actually is pretty much on par with the kind of clueless-about-half-the-species sort of whiz kids who named the iPad. Just my two thoughts on an item at digitaldaily.com

I should really start a tumblog for this sort of thing. via a bit late

I think I need to own this shoe

This is brilliant: It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled… Continue reading

Very busy with classes, so here's one of my programming projects to tide you over. I call it pinbOut; it's a small video game somewhere between pinball and breakout (aka brickbreaker, but more properly arkanoid). http://positdesign.com/media/pinbout/ Player one (white) is controlled with the z and x keys; player two (black) is o and p. Depending on your screen resolution, you may need to scroll down quickly. Requires up-to-date Java in your browser…

In the last three weeks, my programming class has kept me too busy playing my hand at being Ada to put together a coherent piece on the order of last year's ALD post. But I'm already planning something all-out for next year. So this one's a quickie. Much of tech right now is dominated by social media. And one of the big rumors floating around is that because women are… Continue reading

We will be revisting these ideas in near-future posts: "Inspiration is that unexpected moment of discovery when the mind leaps to a new place triggered by something interesting. That something interesting can be a thing you’ve read, or seen on the street, or in a book or gallery, or a piece of music, or something really great or something really awful. For me it is often unrelated… Continue reading

I don't think I've ever seen her wearing a dress before. Love her. “I have neither the discipline nor the desire to turn into someone else.” via NYTimes

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I wish Boston was hosting a funeral today. Via ie6funeral.com

So, I've had this fascination with Pantone ever since I saw my first swatch book. I was completely blown away by this very concise set of colors that could universally be identically reproduced by any printer, anywhere in the world, and how infinite the selection felt. This was during my first job out of college, and oh! I wanted to take the samples with me when… Continue reading

A "playful paint program" that you can play with, at http://positdesign.com/media/paintplay/

I utterly love Werner Herzog. There's really just no two ways around it. I'm also pretty certain that this is the first book I ever read the whole text of out loud to my mother, which she claims happened when I was 2. via coilhouse magazine

It's Fashion Week! So, inspired by galadarling, I wanted to highlight some of my own fictional style icons. Fourth: The Hitchcock Blonde. Continue reading