Content tagged inspiration
Blog Entries
“What Makes for a Good Blog?” I didn’t realise people considered via links so important. I’ve never posted them here because they seem like a … gulfstream/2495
Excellent compendium of great Olympic moments on YouTube. (The uneven bars routines are particularly interesting.) gulfstream/2496
Impressive new UK coins. (One problem with the unified design is that it doesn’t deal very well with coins being added or removed from circulation, … gulfstream/2422
Surprisingly charming, inventive, A-Z alphabet pop-up book. gulfstream/2420
Odd hand-drawn stop-motion ad for the Russian Gmail apparently created by Saatchi Moscow demonstrating the various features. gulfstream/2416
Three reworkings (some quite radical) of the Bloomberg Terminal. gulfstream/2319
The design similarities between Braun and Apple products. (The Braun calculator and iPhone calculator are distressingly similar.) gulfstream/2321
Portfolio site of the designer of Shopsin’s website, the legendary Greenwich village restaurant profiled by Calvin Trillin in the New Yorker. gulfstream/2328
Collection of over 5,000 posters that have appeared over the years on London’s Underground. e.g. “Many or few it’s better to queue”; “England … gulfstream/2347
Nice building: small weekend cabin in Mazama, WA. gulfstream/2394
Run-down auto repair shop converted into architects’ offices (pictures; associated story). gulfstream/2404
Editing “journalism’s greatest prankster,” Hunter S. Thompson. gulfstream/1773
“Muahmmad (sic) Ali - How to be a Man 101.” gulfstream/1896
Furniture in the style of minor historical figures: artist Paul Davies, inspired by a single image of a sturdy and stolid-looking 80s video-game … gulfstream/1931
The Apple II-style website of The Raconteurs, Jack White’s solo project. All Flash, and using the keyboard is mandatory! (“H for Home,” etc.) gulfstream/2082
Captivating: art made from cut up pieces of A4 paper. gulfstream/2152
The Pale Blue Dot: a picture of Earth, taken from a very long way away, inspires some fine words from Carl Sagan about how insignificant we all are, or … gulfstream/2168
Designer Thomas Heatherwick’s Christmas Card. gulfstream/2209
Interview with the designer of the pre-Euro Dutch bank notes, complete with revelations of secret embedded features. gulfstream/2224
Nice graph prepared by a bride and groom showing the relationship between guests at their wedding. (more info) gulfstream/2282
Writers name their favourite fonts. “Obsessing about fonts is a form of procrastination, so of course I have indulged in it ever since I graduated from … gulfstream/2283
Quotes Collected
We write from inspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Prudence", p. 116 emerson/12
Midge had no idea what inspiration was, but Karlson explained. It was a sort of illness which attacked all painters of pictures so that they just had … karlson/2
