Archive for the 'Design' Category
Ok, another new theme, another chance lost.
All that I would like is a theme that is:
1. NOT fixed width
2. Can have light letters on a dark backround
3. Not be really weird or unusual.
It would be really nice, but not necessary, for the theme to have a customizable header.
There are so many, many ways to make [...]
The minimal Katrina cottages are appealing to many that weren’t the target demographic at all. Many are discovering that they don’t want a McMansion, or anything even close to it, and are very happy to have something that is small, well designed and not too expensive to heat, and capable of fitting on a [...]
From the Gilbert and Sullivan 1881 hit Patience, there’s this little ditty that always seems an appropriate description of some certain pretentious person. You might even know more than one person this applies to. Since most of us can’t remember 1881 very well, I have the lyrics below the fold:
An interesting paper confirms what many concerned with building design have long suspected, but which had lacked (to some degree) empirical support: that older buildings, built according to traditional building practices are healthier than modern buildings built to ’state of the art’ newer standards. In other words, those old foggies that used drafting boards, and [...]
I was reminded the other day of an interesting passage in Fritjof Capra’s book Hidden Connections:
Although mycoplasm are minimal cells in terms of their internal simplicity, they can only survive in a precise and rather complex chemical environment. As biologist Harold Morowitz points out, this means that that we need to distinguish between [...]
Hugh Ferriss‘ renderings, at their best, are some of the most evocative examples of American art of the previous century. His renderings were at once broadly and lastingly influential (just look at the set design of Batman or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow for proof of this) However, for all [...]
Over at Ed Felton’s blog, Freedom to Tinker, Ed Felten, observing the CopyBot phenomena in Second Life, asks the question Will It Copy? As interesting as that question is, is I am more interested in a special class of objects that, even if they would copy perfectly, will lose a good part of their [...]
Went up to Chicago this weekend, and saw Millennium Park and all kinds of really interesting Architecture, too.
But, what was interesting and relevant to my observations on current trends in Globalization was a small purchase I’d made at Ikea. As usual, Ikea has gotten so many things right in both their business plan and [...]
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