By way of Designrelated.com, here’s some really great work by illustrator Dmitry Maksimov. We’ve seen character designs like this many times before, but seeing them integrated into the landscapes the way Dmitry does is a really fresh take.
Category Archives: Borderline_INTERESTING
Ping.fm Beta Invites and New Features
May 12, 2008 – 1:13 pm
The social network and microblog posting service Ping.fm has expanded it’s set of features with better posting control and improved support for posting to full-length blogs. Ping.fm offers unprecedented flexibility and is a huge time saver for people who maintain an online presence across multiple sites. We’ve updated our Ping.fm tutorial to reflect [...]
Social Portability and the Free Internet
May 6, 2008 – 4:13 pm
With the advent of the social network, web denizens have been enabled socially in ways that where never possible before. People who would never have been comfortable wining and dining at a real-life cocktail party (myself included) have been given the tools necessary to network, make and follow up with friends and colleagues online. This, [...]
Commodore: Out of Extra Lives?
April 25, 2008 – 1:46 pm
The Channel Register is reporting this week that the Dutch firm that owns the Commodore brand has been declared bankrupt.
One has to wonder if the German and Dutch firms that traded Commodore around over the past few years failed to understand the value in leveraging the American nostalgia for the brand.
What is sad is [...]
David Allen: Getting Things Done
April 12, 2008 – 2:31 am
Really great YouTube video in the Google channel from David Allen’s talk at Google on the Getting Things Done approach. Well worth the time!
Discovering the Forgotten: Urban Exploration
April 10, 2008 – 3:07 pm
Many of us see it every day. We call it many things: Urban blight, sprawl, the ‘rust’ belt. We hunch our shoulders, turn up the collar on our parka and quicken our pace down the sidewalk, staring at the ground.
Artist Highlight: Faith 47
April 10, 2008 – 1:53 pm
I discovered the South Africa-based artist who goes by the moniker “Faith 47″ in a post over on the lovely Wooster collective blog. This piece really caught my eye. Seems more the type of thing you would expect to see sitting in Adobe Illustrator, and not hand painted on a billboard. In this context, it’s [...]
My Yearly Investment
March 28, 2008 – 2:20 pm
Every year for the past few years I’ve received a refund from the Federal Government on my taxes. My financial situation hasn’t changed much in the past few years so I have come to expect this. Now, I know that any self-respecting financial adviser would tell me I should adjust my withholdings so I can [...]
Scailure
March 18, 2008 – 4:12 pm
Scailure is a completely fictional word I use to describe the failure of a system or structure due to it’s inability to operate efficiently above a certain size. Simply put, scailure is the failure to scale efficiently. You might be thinking “Hey, I’m on to you! You just took the words ‘Failure’ and ‘Scale’ and [...]
