The New MTA Map

Posted on May 28, 2010 Under Design

I love this! I have a great map my father kept from 1972, Vignelli's Classic. Next month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil a resized, recolored and simplified edition of the well-known map, its first overhaul in more than a…

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Picturing The Past 10 Years

Posted on December 28, 2009 Under Design

Picturing The Past 10 years by Phillip Niemeyer, an art director at Double Triple, an art and design studio. Via Swissmiss and NY Times

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The Buried Life Goes MTV

Posted on April 22, 2009 Under Life

My pals from The Buried Life just dropped me a note with a link to their new trailer shown above. If you missed the news, they've been given there own MTV show! Fantastic coverage of what they're up to in…

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Getting a Second Opinion

Posted on October 6, 2008 Under Life

During this political season it's almost guaranteed that you'll be relying on various media sources for your up to the minute election coverage. If you're looking at online periodicals and sites run by certain 24-hour news networks, the likelihood that…

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Virgin Eye

Posted on June 23, 2008 Under Life

Your Virgin Big Brother is watching. No, not Jeff (although you may want to add a second lock on your bedroom door). The Virgin Eye is a new interactive way for you (and more importantly Richard Branson) to keep an…

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3G iPhone Mystery Solved

Posted on June 9, 2008 Under Gadgetry

Well, all of the mystery surrounding the new iPhone we've been shrouded in for the past couple months can finally be put to rest. Mr. Jobs just revealed the particulars at today's Worldwide Developer's Conference in San Francisco. Jason Chen…

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Spectra newsreader

Posted on May 19, 2008 Under Life

CNN news crawl, meet your younger, colorful, more animated brother. If you've ever said to yourself, "I hate reading the news. But if it were color coded by topic and then put into a swirling vortex of Flash animation, then…

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Kluster's Knewsroom

Posted on May 14, 2008 Under Life

Ben Kaufman wants you to work for him. And you. And you. And all those people in that building next to you. We told you about his ever morphing business of crowdsourced product development called Kluster. Now it has landed…

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Exclusive: CNN Does Fashion

Posted on April 21, 2008 Under Fashion

CNN.com quietly launched a new feature today which allows readers to order T-shirts of their favorite headlines as they happen. And yes, they have some funny (and terrible) headlines to choose from. To get there, look for the tiny little…

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Nail House Gets Hammered

Posted on April 3, 2007 Under Life

Because we received so much feedback from the original post, I felt compelled to inform you all that Yang Wu and Wu Ping have succumb to the Chinese Government and the real estate developer that will build a shopping mall…

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