New Work: ‘Dairy Today’ - Pentagram
Pentagram’s striking redesign of the trade magazine Dairy Today. They certainly achieved their goal of making the cover memorable and visually impactful. I wonder what the farmers have to say about it!
From observation to design insights
Some thoughts on the purpose of collecting informal observations of “thoughtless acts” encountered in the course of daily life. Some of these reasons resonate with me as I think about why I collect cameraphone photos of design-related things I run across.
Dusk in the city on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Makes me miss it. Ah, those warm summer nights.
Stop Down, More Turns - Photography of Bill Sullivan
“Stop Down” is a series of portraits of New Yorkers in Elevators. “More Turns” catches New Yorkers crossing the threshold of subway turnstiles. Amazingly diverse collection of people and expressions.
washingtonpost.com - Gallery: Ron Mueck
Gallery of photos of Mueck’s exhibits. What technique.
NPR : Remembering the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Heard this story on the way into work this morning. Hard to believe the city rebounded from the devastation shown in the photographs! To think that Telegraph Hill was once a working class neighborhood! Hah!
Absenter: Volume
Awesome photo of a big splash up against a sea wall on an otherwise calm day. Well worth getting wet!
NASA - View of Total Solar Eclipse from Space
Amazing image of the moon’s shadow being cast across the earth. “Visible near the shadow are portions of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea and the coast of Turkey.”
Blurb - What will your book be?
Neato personal (physical book) publishing service. Desktop client for Mac/Win to help with layout and paper/binding choices. For a special project I can see spending $30 books for a hardcover book with dust jacket.
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Merkitys-Meaning - Mobile Phone + Flickr + Context = Meaning
“When you take a photo you are capturing an image of what you can see with your eyes. Merkitys–Meaning enriches this image by automatically adding contextual information and allowing you to instantly share your picture; all with just one click.”
BLDGBLOG: “The city as an avatar of itself”
Totally cool.
scanR - Turn Your Camera Phone Into A Mobile Scanner
If your phone has a 1 megapix camera or greater, email scanR your pics and they will send you a cleaned up version of your image. No OCR done from what I can tell (that would be a killer feature!)
Gothamist: Lisa Whiteman, Photographer
“It takes a lot of energy for me to approach people, and I won’t do it unless I feel prepared to field a million questions. The social interaction is both what often prevents me from taking photos, and what makes taking street photos really fun.”
1878 San Francisco Panorama
Very cool. QTVR composed of historical photographs. Great view of pre-1906 SF.
Golden Gate Sunset
From the Gigapxl project. (A van mounted 1 gigapixel camera)
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YouShoot: Rent digital cameras for events (weddings etc)
Interesting - rent cameras (5, 10, 15 at a time) and then have CD/DVD produced from the resulting pics and clips. Any better results than the ad-hoc capture/sharing when everyone uses their own camera? (if they have one)
ShoZu - Quick and easy flickr uploading S60 app
Wow, awesome. Composing an email every time when mophotoblogging sucked. And you can add tags on the phone (or not, if you don’t want to) which is nice.
DoubleTake - OS X panorama stitching app
Nice UI and iPhoto integration. No auto brightness/contrast matching across images, and not currently designed to assemble panorama “matrixes”. Still, may be worth trying out.
Photo Router
“We believe there’s an opportunity to improve the process of transferring photos captured on cameraphones to other devices. The current applications and processes for sending, archiving, and printing digital photos are simply too complex.” Thesis project
Chris Jordan Photography
“Exploring around our country’s shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by t
Border Film Project
We are distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the U.S.-Mexico border: undocumented migrants crossing the Arizona desert and Minuteman volunteers trying to stop them.
The City - Elizabeth Hickock
Photos of model San Francisco cast in Jell-O.
Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works
Breathtaking photos of China’s industrialization. “Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in my work. I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon,
Kodak had digital camera prototype in 1975
But waited forever to enter the market for fear of plundering their film business.
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.