Director of the Office of Management and Budget for President Obama’s administration, Peter Orszag, speaks to the importance of blogging as a means of transparency and immediate reporting.
The guy talks like a huge nerd which, given his role, is a really good thing.
It’s house cleaning time at twentythreeseven.
I went through and cleaned up some elements on the blog to make it feel a little cleaner and tighter – mostly updates to spacing and form elements and the like. I also removed a few sidebar elements that were just acting at as noise. Eventually I’ll get around [...]
I take a while to get rolling on a Monday. So usually I start with coffee and just graphics until I can wrap my head around text. Here’s some great package design, recently featured on Lovely Package.
I just returned from a quick getaway to Ottawa with the lady (via Porter Air, which despite some delays returning, I highly recommend).
Great news upon my return too including the Raptors handedly defeating the (healthy) Houston Rockets, ImageSpark getting warmed-up for it’s launch and my Theory shades arriving; a sweet Christmas gift courtesy of Liz. [...]
Lovely Package is niche design blog, in the spirit of Konigi (interface) and ilovetypography (typographic), that focuses on featuring works of a particular design medium.
Available for a listen here. Personally I prefer the live performance at the VMAs. Here’s hoping that was recorded live.
Side note: I’ve been enjoying Kanye West’s blog for the last few days. Lots of great links to various style, fashion, technology and music gems. I don’t know of any other artist that is such an [...]
Finally Wordpress has launched a (very useable and full-featured) app for the iPhone that lets users write, edit and post entries on the go. Combined with the ability to post photos taken with my iPhone, I expect to be posting a lot more often now.
I’ll have a massive link up post that’ll cover a [...]
I’ve got a post over at the Teehan+Lax blog discussing one of my favorite bands, Radiohead, and their innovative marketing strategy.
Khoi Vin’s post caught my eye, partly because he makes some solid points about the struggle on how to dress in the design industry but mainly because I wore the SAME CLOTHES on Tuesday — white, short-sleeved, collared shirt, brown cords and my black Chuck Taylors — and I also felt like an idiot all [...]
Everyone loves an urban village but few cities know quite how to get the mix of retail, services and residents right. Monocle has taken inspiration from its favourite neighbourhoods to engineer the perfect precinct.
