This is my archive

Another tool for the everyday narcissist?

If you haven’t seen this already, then take a moment to checkout Google’s newest addition to their ever-so-ubiquitous Googlemaps tool – Street… Read More

Double Click = Search?

Normally, when you click on a word on the web or on most word processing applications, the word is selected. Right? Well, recently, I… Read More

Egosurfing Your Unborn Child’s Name

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about a mother who picked her unborn child’s name by how poorly the name… Read More

Unfortunately, there’s no recipe for originality…

There is no recipe for originality or authenticity, but there are some pointers on how to find it. Bill Breen’s great… Read More

Silly 1,400 Year Old Company Not Hedging Against External Factors

They tell you that most small businesses go belly-up inside of two years. If you can turn a profit by your third year, then… Read More

Virginia Tech Massacre

I wanted to send this out because in my Digital Art class (I teach at Towson University) last night my students were impressive. Read More

Nobody searches for “tooth-paste”, he pointed out

This article has some compelling points about the future and the potential of online advertising. The point made in the title of my post,… Read More

Doritos Queen – a dairy queen disaster

The old Dairy queen logo had some compelling features. The typography is startlingly modern, the shape is retro-fifties and the whole package sings… Read More

Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?

Bruce Nussbaum’s great speech on designers being the enemy of design is well worth your attention. Here are some highlights: “Design Democracy is the wave… Read More

Writing and Images for The Web, and Male Crotches

Jakob Nielsen and Coyne performed an eye tracking study to test some of his theories and work. The results confirmed many of the… Read More