Pig Up Your Logo! Famous Brands Get a Bacon Makeover.
Pig Up Your Logo! Famous Brands Get a Bacon Makeover
Then Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense
Drop shadow notwithstanding, this is an amazing diagram.
Olive Kitteridge
He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding […]
Why We Love Beautiful Things – NYTimes.com
GREAT design, the management expert Gary Hamel once said, is like Justice Potter Stewart’s famous definition of pornography — you know it when you see it. You want it, too: brain scan studies reveal that the sight of an attractive product can trigger the part of the motor cerebellum that governs hand movement. Instinctively, we reach out […]
Middlesex
Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the disappointment of […]
Why Travel Makes Us Better Designers (and Chefs and Scientists)
Why Travel Makes Us Better Designers and Chefs and Scientists | Design on GOOD.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. —John Kennedy Toole
The Fault in Our Stars
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice… —John Green
The Light Between Oceans
There are still more days to travel in this life. And he knows that the man who makes the journey has been shaped by every day and every person along the way. Scars are just another kind of memory. —M.L. Stedman
Diagrams Rule: A Satirical Look at Infographics | Visual.ly
Diagrams Rule: A Satirical Look at Infographics infographic
Paper Passion: Wallpaper* Launches Fragrance with Karl Lagerfeld & Steidl – Dexigner
http://www.dexigner.com/news/25414
25 Brilliant Financial Logo Designs | Think Design
http://thinkdesignblog.com/inspiration-25-brilliant-financial-logo-designs.htm
What each job gets paid: find yours and see how it compares | News | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/nov/23/pay-annual-survey-hours-earnings-visualised
NPR: Do you live in a city? Let’s find out.
http://www.npr.org/2012/155989757/do-you-live-in-a-city-hm-lets-find-out
The Sirens of Titan
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people’s blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed. —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Let the Great World Spin
She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. […]
