White Label Mobile Check In’s to Enhance Events & Outdoor Experiences

This post is half recap, half collection of a couple mobile apps that found out about last night and how I saw things take off. I came across a post from Bob Lefsetz who typically writes about the music industry though occasionally brings something else into the mix. He was talking about a ski resort that was thinking more into the mobile future than anyone in the music industry. There was a lot of good points plus the attached video of the ski resort implementing check in’s... Read More

A Bathroom Worth Noting

Sunday morning I had the opportunity to hang out with Randy J. Hunt, a smart design guy that I respect a lot. He has a habit of mentioning great places to eat so when he emailed me on Saturday wanting to meet up on Sunday I wasn’t going to say no. I had never been to Pulinos before but have walked by it quite a bit with Madison checking out what was going on Bowery. We ended up splitting a couple pizza’s. There was the Nutella (extra virgin olive oil, sea salt +... Read More

Back to the Future Automatic Lacing System

Usually patent diagrams aren’t that exciting. The above images are—they’re illustrating an automatic lacing system. A couple years back I had a post about the actual shoe here, here, and here. Now come the laces. More info about the laces at Street Giant and Nice Kicks.  Read More

Playing Pandora vs Vevo on the iPhone, or better known as random things I might like vs start/stop of selected artist

Just as the title suggests I was curious to examen how these two on demand media types benefit and distract people that want to enjoy music. Pandora allows a person to search for an artist and stream music from their choice along with other that sound similar. In theory the stream will play as long as someone wants. If they want to advance to a mystery next track they can, but with the free version this can happen only for a limited period of times. Vevo on the other hand streams... Read More

Rain Inspired Sunday Afternoon Outside my Window

With the humidity at levels that I can’t really tolerate I’ve been spending most of my Sunday afternoon reading. I’ve also been keeping an eye on the clouds roll in and out, sometimes turning my view completely white. But things move fast and a couple moments later I had a new pointillism inspired view. Tons of clear raindrops turned my view into something that if I didn’t capture that moment would likely not be seen again. Here’s a couple of... Read More

Studying @StartupQuote

ATOMIC IDEA “Observe the world around you – everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do. - Aaron Patzer” Simple quote (likely less than 140 characters) in text. DISPLAY Visualize and personalize quote with the face of the person that wrote it, make type better to read HOST Show on website with single url that is part of a larger collection, give the capabilities to pass core unit via text (Twitter) LOOP Give away the text knowing that there’s... Read More

Can We Date—the Illustrative Guide

I like this story for a couple reasons. I found it via Twitter from the person that actually designed it. The illustration is perfectly balanced between narrative and visuals. I can look at it more than once and it is going to have the same consistent impact. I also wanted to post about it so I can have the .png in my own database. Just press (or click if you’re not on an iPad) to view it at full size. So here’s how I found it. Twitter from a friend so I rt’d... Read More

REVIEW COPY: From Here to There by Hand Drawn Map Association

I really enjoyed reading and looking through From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association. The book is divided into six categories of maps: directional maps, found maps, fictional maps, artful maps, maps of unusual places and explanatory maps. Each map that is a category explains what is going on with the map, and typically a story. What I found enjoyable was reading the personal anecdotes of why a person needed a map or what they doing as... Read More

A Link Drop of Sorts, 3 things that really spiked today & their similar paths

Up until a couple months ago I’d collect a number of links over a week, look at what patterns tied them together and make a mind map of it. Things have been really busy and I haven’t had the time to focus on that type of post. I’m also looking at a huge magnitude shift in the number of things I can read during a week—it is really hard to take the time to stop reading and start posting. Today was strange in that I kept tweeting about three topics that most... Read More

Turning a Print Magazine into a Friendly iPad Version, Looking at Dazed & Confused

Now that the iPad has been out for a couple months I’m starting to see different types of clusters of functions happening for publishing. There’s the standard web version through a browser, stand alone mags like Wired that have to be designed twice to fit portrait and landscape formats, pdfs, feeds like Flipboard and now a light weight flipbook like device that is essentially the print magazine in digital format. While the tech fan in myself would prefer... Read More