Fractal Undies

I know we said not to expect any postings for a while. But then we saw this awesome chest of drawers on boingboing.

What does this piece of furniture have going for it that it's brought us out of our self-imposed sabbatical?

A couple of things. For one, it's based on fractal geometry. Second, it's got the number 23 it it's name, a number we believe to hold great power. If you believe in that sort of numerology nonsense... which we don't.

Obey Orwell

Obey the Giant's own Shepard Fairey designs the covers for Penguin Books re-issue of Orwell's classics "Animal Farm" and "1984."

[via metafilter]

Bindle will Travel

...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.

Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!

Design-Hazard

In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.

''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."

[illustration] These Worlds are Yours

We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.

In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.

The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide

As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.

However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.

Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.

A woman Pilot! In a space ship?!?

We found this on boingboing this morning. It was sent in to them by the legendary artist Coop, and it appears to be an animation test using rotoscoping made in 1969.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique where you film live actors then draw over top of them frame by frame. Rotoscoping might seem like cheating, because you are basically tracing, but it is considered a respected style. The process is just a tedious as traditional cell animation using no references. Many early Disney films used a combination of rotoscoping for it's human characters as well as it's now famous cartoony style for the non-human characters. Disney's Snow White is an excellent example of the style in practice.

Don't be Izzy

The new mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been announced.

Miga is a young sea bear who lives in the ocean with her family pod, out past Vancouver Island near Tofino. Quatchi is a young sasquatch who comes from the mysterious forests of Canada. Sumi is an animal spirit who lives in the mountains of British Columbia.

Wow, we think they look awesome times 2. They're cute, well designed, and actually represent aspects of Vancouver. While our personal favorite is currently Quatchi, we've found a reason to like all of them.

You can take a quiz to see which mascot you are most like. The mascots were designed by a couple of artists who call themselves Meomi. We live in Atlanta. That means we had to put up with this as our mascot for the 96 Summer Olympics:

Izzy. There are so many things wrong with this mascot, it's hard to know where to begin. So we'll start with the most obvious: His total lack of quality on any level, including but not limited to: Design, Intent, or Philosophy. It also looks like he was the very first idea the design committee had. Although, you can be sure this is not true. Originally named Whatizit, Izzy went through many changes after he was announced and before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. They took a marginal design and watered it down even more. The result was spectacularly unpopular.

Which is what makes the Vancouver mascots so great. They seem to be everything that Izzy wasn't. That's not a bad rule of thumb for all character and logo design:

Don't be Izzy.

Bindle will travel

A new desktop image to celebrate our jailbroken iPhone.

Bindle, he's a pilot.

I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!

Now you too can posses The Only Map of the Holes.

This replica of the time/space rift map from the classic film Time Bandits has been lovingly restored. You can order your very own for $90 and be the first to rob Robin Hood, or be a surrogate son for Agamemnon. Just don't piss off The Supreme Being.

Also, don't touch that... "IT'S EEEEEEVIL"

(via boingboing)

Walking with Darwin

We recently went with some friends to see the live puppet show "Walking with Dinosaurs" at Phillips Arena. When I say puppets... I mean three story tall, life size robot monsters. They were awesome.

The Dinosaurs ranged in size from little newborn dinosaur hand puppets to man sized suits for the Velociraptors (very awesome) even all the way up to a huge motorized Brachiosaurus. The "drivable" dinosaurs had a slim pod under their bellies were a puppeteer would sit to operate the giant puppet. They actually walked freely around the stage, that was the most impressive part.

The two Dinosaurs with the most personality were by far the crowd pleasing mother Tyrannosaurus Rex and it's baby. The offspring was another man sized suit. These were a great touch, their natural fluid movement made the minimal clunkiness of the giant robots a lot more palatable. (Even though we're of the opinion that there's nothing more charming than a clunky old clunker of a robot...) The mother's roar was tied directly into the sound system so it sounded amazing. We even got to see the crew testing out the T-rex robot/puppet after the show. You could see right down into the cockpit.

There was another aspect of this show that I really liked. It wasn't all about giant robots and rubber suits. They talked about Science and Evolution, these subjects were treated as matter of fact and not glossed over in any way. I know it's a show about dinosaurs, so they probably figured anyone who was in attendance was at least interested in the subject enough to be familiar with Evolution. However, we're in the south, and I am constantly amazed by how little respect the subject gets here.

I kept thinking about how many mothers in the audience had to quickly cover their children's ears when the Narrator made a big deal about modern day birds being the direct evolutionary descendants of the Dinosaurs.

Keep it up Darwin.

Fractal Undies

I know we said not to expect any postings for a while. But then we saw this awesome chest of drawers on boingboing.

What does this piece of furniture have going for it that it's brought us out of our self-imposed sabbatical?

A couple of things. For one, it's based on fractal geometry. Second, it's got the number 23 it it's name, a number we believe to hold great power. If you believe in that sort of numerology nonsense... which we don't.

Obey Orwell

Obey the Giant's own Shepard Fairey designs the covers for Penguin Books re-issue of Orwell's classics "Animal Farm" and "1984."

[via metafilter]

Bindle will Travel

...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.

Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!

Design-Hazard

In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.

''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."

[illustration] These Worlds are Yours

We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.

In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.

The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide

As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.

However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.

Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.

A woman Pilot! In a space ship?!?

We found this on boingboing this morning. It was sent in to them by the legendary artist Coop, and it appears to be an animation test using rotoscoping made in 1969.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique where you film live actors then draw over top of them frame by frame. Rotoscoping might seem like cheating, because you are basically tracing, but it is considered a respected style. The process is just a tedious as traditional cell animation using no references. Many early Disney films used a combination of rotoscoping for it's human characters as well as it's now famous cartoony style for the non-human characters. Disney's Snow White is an excellent example of the style in practice.

Don't be Izzy

The new mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been announced.

Miga is a young sea bear who lives in the ocean with her family pod, out past Vancouver Island near Tofino. Quatchi is a young sasquatch who comes from the mysterious forests of Canada. Sumi is an animal spirit who lives in the mountains of British Columbia.

Wow, we think they look awesome times 2. They're cute, well designed, and actually represent aspects of Vancouver. While our personal favorite is currently Quatchi, we've found a reason to like all of them.

You can take a quiz to see which mascot you are most like. The mascots were designed by a couple of artists who call themselves Meomi. We live in Atlanta. That means we had to put up with this as our mascot for the 96 Summer Olympics:

Izzy. There are so many things wrong with this mascot, it's hard to know where to begin. So we'll start with the most obvious: His total lack of quality on any level, including but not limited to: Design, Intent, or Philosophy. It also looks like he was the very first idea the design committee had. Although, you can be sure this is not true. Originally named Whatizit, Izzy went through many changes after he was announced and before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. They took a marginal design and watered it down even more. The result was spectacularly unpopular.

Which is what makes the Vancouver mascots so great. They seem to be everything that Izzy wasn't. That's not a bad rule of thumb for all character and logo design:

Don't be Izzy.

Bindle will travel

A new desktop image to celebrate our jailbroken iPhone.

Bindle, he's a pilot.

I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!

Now you too can posses The Only Map of the Holes.

This replica of the time/space rift map from the classic film Time Bandits has been lovingly restored. You can order your very own for $90 and be the first to rob Robin Hood, or be a surrogate son for Agamemnon. Just don't piss off The Supreme Being.

Also, don't touch that... "IT'S EEEEEEVIL"

(via boingboing)

Walking with Darwin

We recently went with some friends to see the live puppet show "Walking with Dinosaurs" at Phillips Arena. When I say puppets... I mean three story tall, life size robot monsters. They were awesome.

The Dinosaurs ranged in size from little newborn dinosaur hand puppets to man sized suits for the Velociraptors (very awesome) even all the way up to a huge motorized Brachiosaurus. The "drivable" dinosaurs had a slim pod under their bellies were a puppeteer would sit to operate the giant puppet. They actually walked freely around the stage, that was the most impressive part.

The two Dinosaurs with the most personality were by far the crowd pleasing mother Tyrannosaurus Rex and it's baby. The offspring was another man sized suit. These were a great touch, their natural fluid movement made the minimal clunkiness of the giant robots a lot more palatable. (Even though we're of the opinion that there's nothing more charming than a clunky old clunker of a robot...) The mother's roar was tied directly into the sound system so it sounded amazing. We even got to see the crew testing out the T-rex robot/puppet after the show. You could see right down into the cockpit.

There was another aspect of this show that I really liked. It wasn't all about giant robots and rubber suits. They talked about Science and Evolution, these subjects were treated as matter of fact and not glossed over in any way. I know it's a show about dinosaurs, so they probably figured anyone who was in attendance was at least interested in the subject enough to be familiar with Evolution. However, we're in the south, and I am constantly amazed by how little respect the subject gets here.

I kept thinking about how many mothers in the audience had to quickly cover their children's ears when the Narrator made a big deal about modern day birds being the direct evolutionary descendants of the Dinosaurs.

Keep it up Darwin.

Fractal Undies

I know we said not to expect any postings for a while. But then we saw this awesome chest of drawers on boingboing.

What does this piece of furniture have going for it that it's brought us out of our self-imposed sabbatical?

A couple of things. For one, it's based on fractal geometry. Second, it's got the number 23 it it's name, a number we believe to hold great power. If you believe in that sort of numerology nonsense... which we don't.

Obey Orwell

Obey the Giant's own Shepard Fairey designs the covers for Penguin Books re-issue of Orwell's classics "Animal Farm" and "1984."

[via metafilter]

Bindle will Travel

...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.

Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!

Design-Hazard

In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.

''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."

[illustration] These Worlds are Yours

We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.

In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.

The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide

As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.

However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.

Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.

A woman Pilot! In a space ship?!?

We found this on boingboing this morning. It was sent in to them by the legendary artist Coop, and it appears to be an animation test using rotoscoping made in 1969.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique where you film live actors then draw over top of them frame by frame. Rotoscoping might seem like cheating, because you are basically tracing, but it is considered a respected style. The process is just a tedious as traditional cell animation using no references. Many early Disney films used a combination of rotoscoping for it's human characters as well as it's now famous cartoony style for the non-human characters. Disney's Snow White is an excellent example of the style in practice.

Don't be Izzy

The new mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been announced.

Miga is a young sea bear who lives in the ocean with her family pod, out past Vancouver Island near Tofino. Quatchi is a young sasquatch who comes from the mysterious forests of Canada. Sumi is an animal spirit who lives in the mountains of British Columbia.

Wow, we think they look awesome times 2. They're cute, well designed, and actually represent aspects of Vancouver. While our personal favorite is currently Quatchi, we've found a reason to like all of them.

You can take a quiz to see which mascot you are most like. The mascots were designed by a couple of artists who call themselves Meomi. We live in Atlanta. That means we had to put up with this as our mascot for the 96 Summer Olympics:

Izzy. There are so many things wrong with this mascot, it's hard to know where to begin. So we'll start with the most obvious: His total lack of quality on any level, including but not limited to: Design, Intent, or Philosophy. It also looks like he was the very first idea the design committee had. Although, you can be sure this is not true. Originally named Whatizit, Izzy went through many changes after he was announced and before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. They took a marginal design and watered it down even more. The result was spectacularly unpopular.

Which is what makes the Vancouver mascots so great. They seem to be everything that Izzy wasn't. That's not a bad rule of thumb for all character and logo design:

Don't be Izzy.

Bindle will travel

A new desktop image to celebrate our jailbroken iPhone.

Bindle, he's a pilot.

I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!

Now you too can posses The Only Map of the Holes.

This replica of the time/space rift map from the classic film Time Bandits has been lovingly restored. You can order your very own for $90 and be the first to rob Robin Hood, or be a surrogate son for Agamemnon. Just don't piss off The Supreme Being.

Also, don't touch that... "IT'S EEEEEEVIL"

(via boingboing)

Walking with Darwin

We recently went with some friends to see the live puppet show "Walking with Dinosaurs" at Phillips Arena. When I say puppets... I mean three story tall, life size robot monsters. They were awesome.

The Dinosaurs ranged in size from little newborn dinosaur hand puppets to man sized suits for the Velociraptors (very awesome) even all the way up to a huge motorized Brachiosaurus. The "drivable" dinosaurs had a slim pod under their bellies were a puppeteer would sit to operate the giant puppet. They actually walked freely around the stage, that was the most impressive part.

The two Dinosaurs with the most personality were by far the crowd pleasing mother Tyrannosaurus Rex and it's baby. The offspring was another man sized suit. These were a great touch, their natural fluid movement made the minimal clunkiness of the giant robots a lot more palatable. (Even though we're of the opinion that there's nothing more charming than a clunky old clunker of a robot...) The mother's roar was tied directly into the sound system so it sounded amazing. We even got to see the crew testing out the T-rex robot/puppet after the show. You could see right down into the cockpit.

There was another aspect of this show that I really liked. It wasn't all about giant robots and rubber suits. They talked about Science and Evolution, these subjects were treated as matter of fact and not glossed over in any way. I know it's a show about dinosaurs, so they probably figured anyone who was in attendance was at least interested in the subject enough to be familiar with Evolution. However, we're in the south, and I am constantly amazed by how little respect the subject gets here.

I kept thinking about how many mothers in the audience had to quickly cover their children's ears when the Narrator made a big deal about modern day birds being the direct evolutionary descendants of the Dinosaurs.

Keep it up Darwin.

Fractal Undies

I know we said not to expect any postings for a while. But then we saw this awesome chest of drawers on boingboing.

What does this piece of furniture have going for it that it's brought us out of our self-imposed sabbatical?

A couple of things. For one, it's based on fractal geometry. Second, it's got the number 23 it it's name, a number we believe to hold great power. If you believe in that sort of numerology nonsense... which we don't.

Obey Orwell

Obey the Giant's own Shepard Fairey designs the covers for Penguin Books re-issue of Orwell's classics "Animal Farm" and "1984."

[via metafilter]

Bindle will Travel

...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.

Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!

Design-Hazard

In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.

''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."

[illustration] These Worlds are Yours

We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.

In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.

The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide

As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.

However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.

Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.

A woman Pilot! In a space ship?!?

We found this on boingboing this morning. It was sent in to them by the legendary artist Coop, and it appears to be an animation test using rotoscoping made in 1969.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique where you film live actors then draw over top of them frame by frame. Rotoscoping might seem like cheating, because you are basically tracing, but it is considered a respected style. The process is just a tedious as traditional cell animation using no references. Many early Disney films used a combination of rotoscoping for it's human characters as well as it's now famous cartoony style for the non-human characters. Disney's Snow White is an excellent example of the style in practice.

Don't be Izzy

The new mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been announced.

Miga is a young sea bear who lives in the ocean with her family pod, out past Vancouver Island near Tofino. Quatchi is a young sasquatch who comes from the mysterious forests of Canada. Sumi is an animal spirit who lives in the mountains of British Columbia.

Wow, we think they look awesome times 2. They're cute, well designed, and actually represent aspects of Vancouver. While our personal favorite is currently Quatchi, we've found a reason to like all of them.

You can take a quiz to see which mascot you are most like. The mascots were designed by a couple of artists who call themselves Meomi. We live in Atlanta. That means we had to put up with this as our mascot for the 96 Summer Olympics:

Izzy. There are so many things wrong with this mascot, it's hard to know where to begin. So we'll start with the most obvious: His total lack of quality on any level, including but not limited to: Design, Intent, or Philosophy. It also looks like he was the very first idea the design committee had. Although, you can be sure this is not true. Originally named Whatizit, Izzy went through many changes after he was announced and before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. They took a marginal design and watered it down even more. The result was spectacularly unpopular.

Which is what makes the Vancouver mascots so great. They seem to be everything that Izzy wasn't. That's not a bad rule of thumb for all character and logo design:

Don't be Izzy.

Bindle will travel

A new desktop image to celebrate our jailbroken iPhone.

Bindle, he's a pilot.

I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!

Now you too can posses The Only Map of the Holes.

This replica of the time/space rift map from the classic film Time Bandits has been lovingly restored. You can order your very own for $90 and be the first to rob Robin Hood, or be a surrogate son for Agamemnon. Just don't piss off The Supreme Being.

Also, don't touch that... "IT'S EEEEEEVIL"

(via boingboing)

Walking with Darwin

We recently went with some friends to see the live puppet show "Walking with Dinosaurs" at Phillips Arena. When I say puppets... I mean three story tall, life size robot monsters. They were awesome.

The Dinosaurs ranged in size from little newborn dinosaur hand puppets to man sized suits for the Velociraptors (very awesome) even all the way up to a huge motorized Brachiosaurus. The "drivable" dinosaurs had a slim pod under their bellies were a puppeteer would sit to operate the giant puppet. They actually walked freely around the stage, that was the most impressive part.

The two Dinosaurs with the most personality were by far the crowd pleasing mother Tyrannosaurus Rex and it's baby. The offspring was another man sized suit. These were a great touch, their natural fluid movement made the minimal clunkiness of the giant robots a lot more palatable. (Even though we're of the opinion that there's nothing more charming than a clunky old clunker of a robot...) The mother's roar was tied directly into the sound system so it sounded amazing. We even got to see the crew testing out the T-rex robot/puppet after the show. You could see right down into the cockpit.

There was another aspect of this show that I really liked. It wasn't all about giant robots and rubber suits. They talked about Science and Evolution, these subjects were treated as matter of fact and not glossed over in any way. I know it's a show about dinosaurs, so they probably figured anyone who was in attendance was at least interested in the subject enough to be familiar with Evolution. However, we're in the south, and I am constantly amazed by how little respect the subject gets here.

I kept thinking about how many mothers in the audience had to quickly cover their children's ears when the Narrator made a big deal about modern day birds being the direct evolutionary descendants of the Dinosaurs.

Keep it up Darwin.

Fractal Undies

I know we said not to expect any postings for a while. But then we saw this awesome chest of drawers on boingboing.

What does this piece of furniture have going for it that it's brought us out of our self-imposed sabbatical?

A couple of things. For one, it's based on fractal geometry. Second, it's got the number 23 it it's name, a number we believe to hold great power. If you believe in that sort of numerology nonsense... which we don't.

Obey Orwell

Obey the Giant's own Shepard Fairey designs the covers for Penguin Books re-issue of Orwell's classics "Animal Farm" and "1984."

[via metafilter]

Bindle will Travel

...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.

Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!

Design-Hazard

In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.

''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."

[illustration] These Worlds are Yours

We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.

In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.

The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide

As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.

However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.

Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.

A woman Pilot! In a space ship?!?

We found this on boingboing this morning. It was sent in to them by the legendary artist Coop, and it appears to be an animation test using rotoscoping made in 1969.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique where you film live actors then draw over top of them frame by frame. Rotoscoping might seem like cheating, because you are basically tracing, but it is considered a respected style. The process is just a tedious as traditional cell animation using no references. Many early Disney films used a combination of rotoscoping for it's human characters as well as it's now famous cartoony style for the non-human characters. Disney's Snow White is an excellent example of the style in practice.

Don't be Izzy

The new mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been announced.

Miga is a young sea bear who lives in the ocean with her family pod, out past Vancouver Island near Tofino. Quatchi is a young sasquatch who comes from the mysterious forests of Canada. Sumi is an animal spirit who lives in the mountains of British Columbia.

Wow, we think they look awesome times 2. They're cute, well designed, and actually represent aspects of Vancouver. While our personal favorite is currently Quatchi, we've found a reason to like all of them.

You can take a quiz to see which mascot you are most like. The mascots were designed by a couple of artists who call themselves Meomi. We live in Atlanta. That means we had to put up with this as our mascot for the 96 Summer Olympics:

Izzy. There are so many things wrong with this mascot, it's hard to know where to begin. So we'll start with the most obvious: His total lack of quality on any level, including but not limited to: Design, Intent, or Philosophy. It also looks like he was the very first idea the design committee had. Although, you can be sure this is not true. Originally named Whatizit, Izzy went through many changes after he was announced and before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. They took a marginal design and watered it down even more. The result was spectacularly unpopular.

Which is what makes the Vancouver mascots so great. They seem to be everything that Izzy wasn't. That's not a bad rule of thumb for all character and logo design:

Don't be Izzy.

Bindle will travel

A new desktop image to celebrate our jailbroken iPhone.

Bindle, he's a pilot.

I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!

Now you too can posses The Only Map of the Holes.

This replica of the time/space rift map from the classic film Time Bandits has been lovingly restored. You can order your very own for $90 and be the first to rob Robin Hood, or be a surrogate son for Agamemnon. Just don't piss off The Supreme Being.

Also, don't touch that... "IT'S EEEEEEVIL"

(via boingboing)

Walking with Darwin

We recently went with some friends to see the live puppet show "Walking with Dinosaurs" at Phillips Arena. When I say puppets... I mean three story tall, life size robot monsters. They were awesome.

The Dinosaurs ranged in size from little newborn dinosaur hand puppets to man sized suits for the Velociraptors (very awesome) even all the way up to a huge motorized Brachiosaurus. The "drivable" dinosaurs had a slim pod under their bellies were a puppeteer would sit to operate the giant puppet. They actually walked freely around the stage, that was the most impressive part.

The two Dinosaurs with the most personality were by far the crowd pleasing mother Tyrannosaurus Rex and it's baby. The offspring was another man sized suit. These were a great touch, their natural fluid movement made the minimal clunkiness of the giant robots a lot more palatable. (Even though we're of the opinion that there's nothing more charming than a clunky old clunker of a robot...) The mother's roar was tied directly into the sound system so it sounded amazing. We even got to see the crew testing out the T-rex robot/puppet after the show. You could see right down into the cockpit.

There was another aspect of this show that I really liked. It wasn't all about giant robots and rubber suits. They talked about Science and Evolution, these subjects were treated as matter of fact and not glossed over in any way. I know it's a show about dinosaurs, so they probably figured anyone who was in attendance was at least interested in the subject enough to be familiar with Evolution. However, we're in the south, and I am constantly amazed by how little respect the subject gets here.

I kept thinking about how many mothers in the audience had to quickly cover their children's ears when the Narrator made a big deal about modern day birds being the direct evolutionary descendants of the Dinosaurs.

Keep it up Darwin.

Fractal Undies

I know we said not to expect any postings for a while. But then we saw this awesome chest of drawers on boingboing.

What does this piece of furniture have going for it that it's brought us out of our self-imposed sabbatical?

A couple of things. For one, it's based on fractal geometry. Second, it's got the number 23 it it's name, a number we believe to hold great power. If you believe in that sort of numerology nonsense... which we don't.

Obey Orwell

Obey the Giant's own Shepard Fairey designs the covers for Penguin Books re-issue of Orwell's classics "Animal Farm" and "1984."

[via metafilter]

Bindle will Travel

...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.

Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!

Design-Hazard

In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.

''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."

[illustration] These Worlds are Yours

We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.

In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.

The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide

As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.

However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.

Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.

A woman Pilot! In a space ship?!?

We found this on boingboing this morning. It was sent in to them by the legendary artist Coop, and it appears to be an animation test using rotoscoping made in 1969.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique where you film live actors then draw over top of them frame by frame. Rotoscoping might seem like cheating, because you are basically tracing, but it is considered a respected style. The process is just a tedious as traditional cell animation using no references. Many early Disney films used a combination of rotoscoping for it's human characters as well as it's now famous cartoony style for the non-human characters. Disney's Snow White is an excellent example of the style in practice.

Don't be Izzy

The new mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been announced.

Miga is a young sea bear who lives in the ocean with her family pod, out past Vancouver Island near Tofino. Quatchi is a young sasquatch who comes from the mysterious forests of Canada. Sumi is an animal spirit who lives in the mountains of British Columbia.

Wow, we think they look awesome times 2. They're cute, well designed, and actually represent aspects of Vancouver. While our personal favorite is currently Quatchi, we've found a reason to like all of them.

You can take a quiz to see which mascot you are most like. The mascots were designed by a couple of artists who call themselves Meomi. We live in Atlanta. That means we had to put up with this as our mascot for the 96 Summer Olympics:

Izzy. There are so many things wrong with this mascot, it's hard to know where to begin. So we'll start with the most obvious: His total lack of quality on any level, including but not limited to: Design, Intent, or Philosophy. It also looks like he was the very first idea the design committee had. Although, you can be sure this is not true. Originally named Whatizit, Izzy went through many changes after he was announced and before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. They took a marginal design and watered it down even more. The result was spectacularly unpopular.

Which is what makes the Vancouver mascots so great. They seem to be everything that Izzy wasn't. That's not a bad rule of thumb for all character and logo design:

Don't be Izzy.

Bindle will travel

A new desktop image to celebrate our jailbroken iPhone.

Bindle, he's a pilot.

I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!

Now you too can posses The Only Map of the Holes.

This replica of the time/space rift map from the classic film Time Bandits has been lovingly restored. You can order your very own for $90 and be the first to rob Robin Hood, or be a surrogate son for Agamemnon. Just don't piss off The Supreme Being.

Also, don't touch that... "IT'S EEEEEEVIL"

(via boingboing)

Walking with Darwin

We recently went with some friends to see the live puppet show "Walking with Dinosaurs" at Phillips Arena. When I say puppets... I mean three story tall, life size robot monsters. They were awesome.

The Dinosaurs ranged in size from little newborn dinosaur hand puppets to man sized suits for the Velociraptors (very awesome) even all the way up to a huge motorized Brachiosaurus. The "drivable" dinosaurs had a slim pod under their bellies were a puppeteer would sit to operate the giant puppet. They actually walked freely around the stage, that was the most impressive part.

The two Dinosaurs with the most personality were by far the crowd pleasing mother Tyrannosaurus Rex and it's baby. The offspring was another man sized suit. These were a great touch, their natural fluid movement made the minimal clunkiness of the giant robots a lot more palatable. (Even though we're of the opinion that there's nothing more charming than a clunky old clunker of a robot...) The mother's roar was tied directly into the sound system so it sounded amazing. We even got to see the crew testing out the T-rex robot/puppet after the show. You could see right down into the cockpit.

There was another aspect of this show that I really liked. It wasn't all about giant robots and rubber suits. They talked about Science and Evolution, these subjects were treated as matter of fact and not glossed over in any way. I know it's a show about dinosaurs, so they probably figured anyone who was in attendance was at least interested in the subject enough to be familiar with Evolution. However, we're in the south, and I am constantly amazed by how little respect the subject gets here.

I kept thinking about how many mothers in the audience had to quickly cover their children's ears when the Narrator made a big deal about modern day birds being the direct evolutionary descendants of the Dinosaurs.

Keep it up Darwin.

Fractal Undies

I know we said not to expect any postings for a while. But then we saw this awesome chest of drawers on boingboing.

What does this piece of furniture have going for it that it's brought us out of our self-imposed sabbatical?

A couple of things. For one, it's based on fractal geometry. Second, it's got the number 23 it it's name, a number we believe to hold great power. If you believe in that sort of numerology nonsense... which we don't.

Obey Orwell

Obey the Giant's own Shepard Fairey designs the covers for Penguin Books re-issue of Orwell's classics "Animal Farm" and "1984."

[via metafilter]

Bindle will Travel

...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.

Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!

Design-Hazard

In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.

''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."

[illustration] These Worlds are Yours

We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.

In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.

The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide

As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.

However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.

Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.

A woman Pilot! In a space ship?!?

We found this on boingboing this morning. It was sent in to them by the legendary artist Coop, and it appears to be an animation test using rotoscoping made in 1969.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique where you film live actors then draw over top of them frame by frame. Rotoscoping might seem like cheating, because you are basically tracing, but it is considered a respected style. The process is just a tedious as traditional cell animation using no references. Many early Disney films used a combination of rotoscoping for it's human characters as well as it's now famous cartoony style for the non-human characters. Disney's Snow White is an excellent example of the style in practice.

Don't be Izzy

The new mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been announced.

Miga is a young sea bear who lives in the ocean with her family pod, out past Vancouver Island near Tofino. Quatchi is a young sasquatch who comes from the mysterious forests of Canada. Sumi is an animal spirit who lives in the mountains of British Columbia.

Wow, we think they look awesome times 2. They're cute, well designed, and actually represent aspects of Vancouver. While our personal favorite is currently Quatchi, we've found a reason to like all of them.

You can take a quiz to see which mascot you are most like. The mascots were designed by a couple of artists who call themselves Meomi. We live in Atlanta. That means we had to put up with this as our mascot for the 96 Summer Olympics:

Izzy. There are so many things wrong with this mascot, it's hard to know where to begin. So we'll start with the most obvious: His total lack of quality on any level, including but not limited to: Design, Intent, or Philosophy. It also looks like he was the very first idea the design committee had. Although, you can be sure this is not true. Originally named Whatizit, Izzy went through many changes after he was announced and before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. They took a marginal design and watered it down even more. The result was spectacularly unpopular.

Which is what makes the Vancouver mascots so great. They seem to be everything that Izzy wasn't. That's not a bad rule of thumb for all character and logo design:

Don't be Izzy.

Bindle will travel

A new desktop image to celebrate our jailbroken iPhone.

Bindle, he's a pilot.

I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!

Now you too can posses The Only Map of the Holes.

This replica of the time/space rift map from the classic film Time Bandits has been lovingly restored. You can order your very own for $90 and be the first to rob Robin Hood, or be a surrogate son for Agamemnon. Just don't piss off The Supreme Being.

Also, don't touch that... "IT'S EEEEEEVIL"

(via boingboing)

Walking with Darwin

We recently went with some friends to see the live puppet show "Walking with Dinosaurs" at Phillips Arena. When I say puppets... I mean three story tall, life size robot monsters. They were awesome.

The Dinosaurs ranged in size from little newborn dinosaur hand puppets to man sized suits for the Velociraptors (very awesome) even all the way up to a huge motorized Brachiosaurus. The "drivable" dinosaurs had a slim pod under their bellies were a puppeteer would sit to operate the giant puppet. They actually walked freely around the stage, that was the most impressive part.

The two Dinosaurs with the most personality were by far the crowd pleasing mother Tyrannosaurus Rex and it's baby. The offspring was another man sized suit. These were a great touch, their natural fluid movement made the minimal clunkiness of the giant robots a lot more palatable. (Even though we're of the opinion that there's nothing more charming than a clunky old clunker of a robot...) The mother's roar was tied directly into the sound system so it sounded amazing. We even got to see the crew testing out the T-rex robot/puppet after the show. You could see right down into the cockpit.

There was another aspect of this show that I really liked. It wasn't all about giant robots and rubber suits. They talked about Science and Evolution, these subjects were treated as matter of fact and not glossed over in any way. I know it's a show about dinosaurs, so they probably figured anyone who was in attendance was at least interested in the subject enough to be familiar with Evolution. However, we're in the south, and I am constantly amazed by how little respect the subject gets here.

I kept thinking about how many mothers in the audience had to quickly cover their children's ears when the Narrator made a big deal about modern day birds being the direct evolutionary descendants of the Dinosaurs.

Keep it up Darwin.

Fractal Undies

I know we said not to expect any postings for a while. But then we saw this awesome chest of drawers on boingboing.

What does this piece of furniture have going for it that it's brought us out of our self-imposed sabbatical?

A couple of things. For one, it's based on fractal geometry. Second, it's got the number 23 it it's name, a number we believe to hold great power. If you believe in that sort of numerology nonsense... which we don't.

Obey Orwell

Obey the Giant's own Shepard Fairey designs the covers for Penguin Books re-issue of Orwell's classics "Animal Farm" and "1984."

[via metafilter]

Bindle will Travel

...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.

Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!

Design-Hazard

In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.

''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."

[illustration] These Worlds are Yours

We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.

In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.

The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide

As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.

However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.

Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.

A woman Pilot! In a space ship?!?

We found this on boingboing this morning. It was sent in to them by the legendary artist Coop, and it appears to be an animation test using rotoscoping made in 1969.

Rotoscoping is an animation technique where you film live actors then draw over top of them frame by frame. Rotoscoping might seem like cheating, because you are basically tracing, but it is considered a respected style. The process is just a tedious as traditional cell animation using no references. Many early Disney films used a combination of rotoscoping for it's human characters as well as it's now famous cartoony style for the non-human characters. Disney's Snow White is an excellent example of the style in practice.

Don't be Izzy

The new mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been announced.

Miga is a young sea bear who lives in the ocean with her family pod, out past Vancouver Island near Tofino. Quatchi is a young sasquatch who comes from the mysterious forests of Canada. Sumi is an animal spirit who lives in the mountains of British Columbia.

Wow, we think they look awesome times 2. They're cute, well designed, and actually represent aspects of Vancouver. While our personal favorite is currently Quatchi, we've found a reason to like all of them.

You can take a quiz to see whi