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On Geoglyphs
From BLDG BLOG: In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself-the unfinished extension of a place called California City. Visible from above now are a series of badly paved streets carved into the dust and gravel, like some peculiarly American response to theNazca Lines (or even [...]
Contest? Aren’t You Just Bribing Us Now?
We like to think of it as clearing our inventory. But honestly we have been relatively negligent on the blog for the past couple of months as our studio has been getting busier. So as a thank you and a little pre-holiday gift we are giving away 2 packs of FIELD NOTES COLORS “Mackinaw Autumn”. That’s right [...]
Review of Change By Design
Design thinking is a frustrating topic for strangers to the subject. It is not a concrete process for creating innovation; there is no instruction manual for design. You can learn to rules for research or color theory and typography, but you really only learn design by doing it. Design thinking doesn’t just require you to [...]
Another Field Notes Contest
Hmmm contest you say? … That’s right we have a unopened shiny new three-pack of the limited edition FIELD NOTES “COLORS” Grass Stain Green memo pads. If you haven’t heard about FIELD NOTES yet they are awesome 3″ x 5″ sketchpads, perfect for being handy when inspiration hits. The winner will be announced Friday 09/25 [...]
Net Neutrality Primer
Today FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is giving an address at the Brookings Institution where he is expected to ask the FCC in October to turn the controversial “net neutrality” principles into formal rules. Net Neutrality has simultaneously been hailed as essential for democracy and the killer of the internet. The fact remains the because of [...]
Technology thinking like Van Der Rhoe
Let me preface this by saying I want the next touchscreen phone, camera, video player, Swiss-army knife as much as the next guy (maybe more, I don’t like the one I have). But for the past I don’t know how long, simplicity has been a rallying cry expertly advocated by John Maeda in his book [...]
Creating a New Conscience aka Keeping Tabs on Ourselves
We need to develop a platform where we can quickly and easily set up a site to track data, events and feelings on any issue. This platform could act as a sort of social conscience for a group. Not to get too political but most recently I have been pondering the Cash for Clunkers program. [...]
Limited Edition Grass Green Field Notes Twitter Contest
It’s Wednesday, still have half the week to go, yup we need some inspiration. Assuming we’re not the only ones, we’re proposing a Twitter contest. Lets put together a huge list of inspirational videos, ones that make you think, wonder, act, get off the couch, whatever. You know how this works, you need to be [...]
Letter to Our Readers
Lots of changes to the site coming new posting schedule, feature articles, contests, Twitter, etc. So stay tuned, there is lot of design geekiness to come, and hopefully plenty of inspired debate and ideas.