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Meet Roundhouse Seawolf

Hammer & Coop is a great microsite for the Mini Coop. In addition to watching episodes of the dynamic duo, you can also generate your own action character name. Rhaya Shilts, alias Roundhouse Seawolf. Via adgoodness.

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106,000

That is the number of aluminum cans used in the US every thirty seconds. Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait is a series by Chris Jordan that "looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on."

The statistics are startling, and the large detailed prints are an artistic and effective way of getting the message across. Via 30gms.

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Slice Of Time

Check out this grandfather clock and other items at Spring: design + art. The handful of plates, chandelier shade and "fox" stole are all wonderfully unique. Via Boing Boing.

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“Kind of Like a Misbehaving Pet”

Clocky: "The alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don't wake up... Clocky is kind of like a misbehaving pet, only he will get up at the right time."



Unfortunately, this means anyone with a misbehaving pet (like my cat, seen above, in a box) most likely doesn't need Clocky.



Or if you'd like an alarm clock that will go off every couple hours, just have an 8 month old baby like in Mandy's case. Via dooce.

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Personalized Ads From Mini

RFID (radio frequency identification) technology has made it possible for billboards to identify approaching Mini Cooper drivers by using a signal from a radio chip embedded in their key fobs, and deliver a personalized message to them.

The messages are based on questionnaires that owners filled out: "Mary, moving at the speed of justice," if Mary is a lawyer, or "Mike, the special of the day is speed," if Mike is a chef. Read the full NYTimes article. Via Advertising/Design Goodness

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Turn Turn Turn

More Turns by Bill Sullivan is a thought-provoking series that captures a wide variety of people performing the same mundane act (passing through a subway turnstile).

From his site, he explains how he took the photos:
"At the moment that the subjects passed through the turnstile, unknown to them, I took their picture stationed at a distance of eleven feet. I stood there turning pages of a magazine observing subjects out of the corner of my eye, waiting for only the moment when they pushed the turnstile bar to release the shutter."

Read more and see his other series at 3situations.com

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Bear Vs. Colt

In preparation for the Superbowl, local design firm, MediaSauce, has created a web site where you can see a "bear" and a "colt" battling it out. Whose side are you on? Vote at Bear Vs. Colt.

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You’ll Slow Down For This Billboard

This billboard in Turkey appears to have a police car hiding behind it. Instinct tells you to slow down and once you have, you will see the message on the billboard: Pay your traffic tickets on time without waiting in line - isbank.com.tr. The police car is actually a full size reproduction of a police car which is a part of the billboard. Via Advertising/Design Goodness.

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Blast From The Past

As we get our office space ready for some demo/reno, we have been finding some items that have been untouched for at least a decade. One gem of a find was a book from 2000 called "Designing for the Web". Some great excerpts from it are as follows:

"When reading text on a Web screen, some of it will typically be underlined and blue -- indicating that it's a link to another place on the Internet. The link may be a URL, FTP, WWW or any one of several others. Clicking on a hypertext link will send you immediately to a new area. Incidentally, moving from one site to another is called "surfing the Net." ... Avoid Changing Link Colors. New links are coded in blue; links to old (visited) pages are purple or red. Please don't change these colors since it is hard enough to figure out the navigation... Avoid Long Scrolling Pages. Few users scroll beyond the information that is visible on the screen when a page comes up... many don't even know they can!"

While much of it is outdated, there are definitely some rules that withstand the test of time and trends... for example, "Don't Assume the Visitor is Using Your Browser" and "Make Sure Your HTML Is Squeaky Clean" and "Don't Use BLINK".

We will be sure to post any other treasures we find as we clean and organize the office. We also may be posting some items for sale.

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Sharpie Art

Justine Ashbee creates beautiful artwork purely by hand, using Sharpie pens. Via designverb.

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