Whoa! Just watch.
Design is only design.
Seems like someone, somewhere, is always having that old (and super annoying) conversation about the meaning of design. I had it again a few nights ago. In this particular conversation, I was arguing that design is simply the process of creating stuff that works. The other person in the conversation was bugged by my insistence [...]
The most meaningful book review ever
So usually, when our book, Written on the City, gets good reviews, I don’t post ‘em. It’s not that I’m not super damn proud of the piece. I am. It just feels weird to talk about it. But this weekend, my father, who taught art at San Quentin prison for a while, got a two [...]
Tweenbots
So Kacie Kinzer has launched a project called Tweenbots. It looks to me like an experiment in gauging the kindness of strangers. What’s super interesting is that these things are little cardboard robots, yet they seem to elicit more kindness from strangers than real live humans might. From the site: Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that [...]
Phone home, sucka!
This is genuinely awesome. Super awesome, even. You can buy the print here.
Multiple bottom lines
So last week during an interview for a radio show, we were asked what our single driving purpose is. What, the interviewer wanted to know, was our one bottom line? It’s hard question for anyone. But it’s extra hard for us because we don’t believe it’s a good strategy to be rigid about anything. Especially [...]
Introducing TweetBuzzer
Hey Allz: So Language in Common (that’s us!) has just launched a new project. It’s called TweetBuzzer and it lets you track the brand buzz on Twitter. There’s a couple ways to use it: You can hang out on the homepage and watch people talk about brands in near real time. This is pretty much [...]
Bathtub IV
Just so you know, this all real footage. Gorgeous. Super ridiculously gorgeous. Found at the super neato Change The Thought.
