Bubble Project among others
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Please Enjoy - The Work of Ji Lee
http://pleaseenjoy.com/index.php
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May 7 2010, 12:51pm | Comments »
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Grid Style In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Resources | Showcases | instantShift
http://www.instantshift.com/2009/05/21/grid-style-in-modern-web-design-showcase-and-resources/
April 4 2010, 12:58pm | Comments »
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jb.tumblr
http://jarredbishop.tumblr.com/
nice tumblr theme
April 3 2010, 4:05am | Comments »
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Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board
http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/
April 3 2010, 3:16am | Comments »
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Ji Lee: The Transformative Power of Personal Projects :: Videos :: The 99 Percent
http://the99percent.com/videos/6231/ji-lee-the-transformative-power-of-personal-projects
bubble project
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March 20 2010, 3:43pm | Comments »
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The Best Free WordPress Themes of 2009 | Web Design Ledger
http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/the-best-free-wordpress-themes-of-2009
November 26 2009, 1:43am | Comments »
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Michael Freimuth
http://michaelfreimuth.com/work/Marks
November 13 2009, 12:55am | Comments »
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Graphic-ExchanGE - a selection of graphic projects
http://www.graphic-exchange.com/03identity.htm
November 13 2009, 12:54am | Comments »
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feltron — In conjunction with the relaunch of their website,...
http://feltron.tumblr.com/post/239368807/in-conjunction-with-the-relaunch-of-their-website
process started by determining what metrics might hold an interesting narrative
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November 10 2009, 12:43pm | Comments »
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Ton prochain T-shirt se trouve sur Grafitee | Tee shirt, T-shirt - Part 4
http://www.blog.grafitee.fr/page/4/
October 5 2009, 2:29am | Comments »
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Designing Obama — Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/simplescott/designing-obama
September 24 2009, 2:57pm | Comments »
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About Steepster — Steepster
September 24 2009, 12:06pm | Comments »
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siteInspire | Home | inspiring web design and CSS gallery
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July 12 2009, 12:45pm | Comments »
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Paula Scher on Failure | Psychology Today Blogs
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200905/paula-scher-failure
June 9 2009, 1:54pm | Comments »
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Walking on Top of the High Line
http://designnotes.info/?p=1801
Like a lot of fans of the High Line, the opening of the first section a day early was a welcome surprise. It surpassed any hype that I had put on it myself. But to be honest I would have been happy with just about anything that gives a walking path with a new view of New York City that hasn’t existed before. I’ve also been following the construction for the past three years when I moved here. Back when they had limited public tours of one of the more northern sections I jumped all over that experience. I was also fortunate some time back to hear Diller Scofidio + Renfro talk about the High Line in the IAC building. That culmination of background experiences made the walk that much more fun for me.
After hearing about people being allowed on the High Line a day early all over Twitter I made the trek from Soho to the Meat Packing district around 7.30 pm which in hindsight was the perfect time to visit. There’s still a lot of daylight to take in the whole first section. As the sun slowly sets the lights around the High Line and city, new views appear. Colours pop in a different way and the tone is a different kind of chill from the regular day time experience.
As I was walking and taking pictures every couple feet there was a couple themes I was looking for and came across a couple unexpected contrasts. First and foremost I was looking to see how the High Line integrated a pathway with constructed foliage that was there as a nod to the natural habitat that had grown from years of neglect and the steel rail road. In some parts of the walkway there’s a really great balance of all three elements while elsewhere it does feel a bit concrete heavy. This is especially true walking south to north through the Chelsea Market building, though there’s a great view of the IAC building clustered with a couple other buildings the to the north west. One of the unexpected themes was the contrast between complicated angles and very clean simple lines.
An almost too obvious thing to consider but worth bringing up is how does the city look from the view on the High Line? Depending where a person is standing or sitting there’s a lot of clusters of area that become unique blocks—no kidding when considering the size of New York but when a person considers that the High Line that’s open only runs a couple blocks is quite a visual feast. There’s the gritty side, there’s the flashy architecture side, there’s the historic side, there’s the the Empire State Building side and then there’s the Jersey side (which isn’t too bad either). Something that shouldn’t have come up as a surprise yet was, was all the construction cranes jetting up. For a moment it was easy to forget that there was an economic melt down and that progress via construction was still going strong.
While the High Line is meant to be walked, it’s also meant to be a place to sit and relax. There were a ton of places that I was scoping out to visit again with a book. A person would be hard pressed to find a bad spot to sit down though I suspect one of the most popular sports will be where people can put up their feet on the long wooden chaise’s. I enjoyed sitting there for a while. The theatre seating is another stroke of genius. In it’s current state I would be surprised if I saw more then die hard runners moving by quickly on the pathway. It seems like it would be more effort then warranted to run a short distance on the High Line though once the entire route is open that will probably change. As some people have mentioned, dogs aren’t welcome up there. I have a dog and to be honest I don’t really mind that much. My opinion on that could change but at the moment it wasn’t the first thing I was thinking about as I was walking. As other sections of the High Line open up, I’m really looking forward to seeing how the pathway changes my perspective of the city. As the news hype over the next couple of days grows I’ve created a page powered by Daylife that has all the High Line articles out there. That can be viewed at http://topics.designnotes.info/page/highline. I also have more photos of my first walk through on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsurtees/sets/72157619404502549.
June 9 2009, 5:49am | Comments »
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Video on Agile Design from my Creative Mornings talk is up
http://designnotes.info/?p=1792
5/8 Michael Surtees from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
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surtees_agilededesign Michael Surtees Publish at Scribd or explore others: Other Research agile DesignI’m really happy to mention that my Agile Design talk at Creative Mornings can now be seen on Vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/4831538. The entire video is about half an hour with the Q & A—I guess I went over my ten minute slot, ha. I just want to thank Tina and the entire Creative Mornings team for giving me the opportunity to talk, setting up the event and producing a great video that ties my talk together. I also wanted to thank James A. Reeves who was hanging out in Finland and was the virtual skype guest, and Core Industries for sponsoring the talk. And please let me know what you thought of the talk. I’m kind of curious to hear from designers who are working in a more traditional framework of waterfall. Does agile seem like a good idea or something that should be left to engineers? And to save some time, here’s the links from the last slide… The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It by Joshua Cooper Ramo Adaptive Path http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/ Is incremental design the wave of the future? http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/02/incremental_design.html Ethan Eismann (Look for the Designing for Agile: Seven Practices) http://eismann-sf.com/news/?cat=12 Twelve emerging best practices for adding UX work to Agile development http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/emerging_best_agile_ux_practice.html Design as an Iterative Process http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=686&fileId=1657 Is Your Agile Software Process Handcuffing the User Experience Design? http://design-for-users.com/user-experience/agile-software-process-user-experience-design/ Kanban Development Oversimplified http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/2009/kanban_over_simplified.html
May 26 2009, 5:37am | Comments »
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PROLOGUE
May 24 2009, 12:39pm | Comments »
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Notes from Justin Ouellette of Muxtape Talk
http://designnotes.info/?p=1747
Below are my incomplete notes that I found myself typing away on my iPhone last night as I listened to Justin Ouellette of Muxtape talk at the Apple SoHo store for the AIGA NY DesignerRemixed series. I’ll try adding more context to some of the bullet points through the day as thoughts come back… · lists and music go pretty well together · playlists give context, much more interesting then an algorithm · what’s better than a computer recommendation? A human recommendation · exposure and threads are shown via those human playlists · limits allow for quality · contrast of different music types, not in a vacumn · less is often more · myspace music player is scary, interesting he noted that he was “confronted” with advertising · played the below video…
The Top (Music Video) from Francis and the Lights on Vimeo. · design principles and respect · all those charts and info vs a simple question of what you’re trying to get, showed example of is Obama up? · reverse of simplicity is more maximal. Showed the Sistine Chapel. · getting people to listen to it is the first step to get attention to make money · people being concerned about miss out on next big thing… Edrea Lita has a couple better pics of the talk on her flickr stream.
April 16 2009, 6:19am | Comments »
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Quotes to remember as a designer
http://designnotes.info/?p=1729
For me personally, I don’t think there’s two more important quotes out there for a designer to consider. Zuzana Licko in an interview mentions “you read best what you read most” in 1990, while more recently during the 2008 US Presidential Election a student quipped “if the news is that important, it will find me”. They’re universal truths that are applicable to almost anything. It’s not a tech. thing, it’s not a print thing, it is a people experience thing. Everyone interprets their experiences the way they choose to—whether it’s consciously or subconsciously. Those two above quotes sum it up. If a designer reminds themselves about that every once in awhile, the action a designer needs to make becomes a lot more possible.
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April 8 2009, 4:02am | Comments »
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studio jurgenbey
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