The previous post mentioned Porter Square Books in Cambridge.
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I was lingering there, I was early for something and had a few minutes. But after a time, I felt like I was “using” the place. I wasn’t planning on buying anything. At that moment, it was less a store than a fresh-stocked library.
Regarding [...]
I was at Porter Square Books, leafing through their magazines and found the Art issue of The Believer was out. I’m not a reader, but I decided to pick it up.
Leafing through it, I found this nice “discussed” device they use at the head of each of their articles:
It’s another kind of teaser to tell [...]
Wow:
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/karin-fong/between-spaces/spaces-between-leave-us-betwixt
This is a great post by Karin Fong, a motion graphics/designer at Imaginary Forces. She’s talking about 2.5 d.
Depending on when/if you choose to read her post. Wikipedia defines 2.5 D as
2.5D (”two-and-a-half-dimensional”), also called pseudo-3D, is an informal term used to describe either a) graphical projections and techniques which cause a series of images [...]
I was leafing through Brookline Massachussetts Adult & Community Education Catalog for 2010, and I noticed this nice move.
Probably much more common than I realize, but in the outer margin they included a teaser for other class listings on other pages. They also had famous quoutes and the like.
But this other dimension of communication caught [...]
I’ve been noticing how people include a “colophon” section to their websites, eg:
http://daringfireball.net/colophon/
http://www.subtraction.com/ (see left)
Here’s what the wikipedia entry says: “A brief description, usually located at the end of a book, describing production notes relevant to the edition
A printer’s mark or logotype”
In web usage it seems like a bibliography of tools. It’s an interesting view [...]
I’m trying to resolve my relationship to a blog. For the moment, this is how I’m thinking of it.
The blog will focus on thoughts related to media. Not links, I think I’m not gonna include that stuff now, the one’s I’m liking can be found on delicious: http://delicious.com/jeffgoldenson
I’m also interested in overall issues related to [...]
A little while back I was chasing some links and I landed on the amazon page of a book I like. It turns out that I searched this book in Amazon not too long before, but it looked different — it had a lot fewer reviews. Then I realized, I was on the Wabi Sabi [...]