Brooklyn Bottle Design Competition
Bond No. 9 invites everyone to join the Brooklyn Bottle Design Competition. Check www.bondno9.com for the rules.
Archived entries for just thoughts
To 3D or not to 3D
I always like the Herman Miller’s Thought Pile from Freedom + Partners. Then I saw the new site done in 3D and I was caught between “whoa… awesome!” initial moments and then not loving it as much as the un-3D version. It’s definitely an interesting interface, with the 3D depth of field accentuated by some graphical elements (I especially like the circle of logos contrasting the perpendicular plane.
I wonder what the thoughts are behind this redesign and whether they are going to change it again once 3D is no longer the “it” thing to do.
Meanwhile, FirstBorn created The Mountain microsite for Sport Chalet with inspirational 3D use of triangular panels. Nice touch on using the same triangular panels intermittently as part of design elements (e.g. colorful loading panels, corners of popup boxes). Sad note: It does make my browser grind to a halt when I left it on for a few minutes.
A supershort story: Cellphone Day
This supershort story is inspired by a courier that dropped by Squeaky’s office. He had the loudest walkie-talkie phone that pretty much blared inconsequential conversation throughout the whole office. No sorry, nothing. What a piece of work. So here it is, my supershort story for all of you inconsiderate people out there:
“So how’re you doing?”
“Yeah, nothing, really…”
“So what are you up to?”
“Oh, nothing?”
“Oh yeah, me too.”
“Yeah, I’m just on the bus, you know, going to work…”
“So, are you doing anything tonight?”
“No?”
”Me too.”
“Alrighty then… I’ll see you at work.”
He shuts his cell phone and put it in his coat pocket. He turns his face to me and smiles. “Sorry. Work stuff, ya know.”
I look at him and I want to say, “What on earth would you think I give a shit about your conversation? I just want you to shut the fuck up and not bother me on my way to work, you asshole!”
But I just shrug and turn my attention back to the book I’m reading. Tried to read, anyway. Because when someone is shooting his mouth off on some petty bullshit just to fill the void in his head and knows nothing about common courtesy, I can’t turn my hearing off. I wish I could just shoot them. What would that feel? I can see the headline now. “Woman Charged In Man-On-Cellphone Death. Lawyer Files For Temporary Insanity Defense Caused By Lack Of Manner.” Now that’s a headline.
This actually makes me smile. Today is going to be a good day for killing someone.
The End.
Square Root Day!
Today is Square Root Day, when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. So March 3, 2009 = 3/3/09, or √9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9.
I always love numbers; love telling people how my birth date is actually easier to remember when you take the last 2 digits of the year I was born, divided by 3 to get the date and then divided the result by 4 to get the month. I thought it was amusing, while the person I told it to just looked at me funny.
More fun mathematically-related day to come: Pi Day is observed each March 14 (3.14), while Pi Approximation Day falls on July 22 (roughly equal to 22/7). The first Pi Day was observed in 1988 by staff at the San Francisco Exploratorium, who walked around in circles.
My Valentine’s Day pick
Laurie Peters’ Romance & Friendship Cards: “designed with communicating Love and that special feeling that other cards fail to deliver.” Totally serial killer!
Brilliant now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t. UK-based designer and artist, Nicky, AKA “monster-munch“, designed this engraved Moleskine. See the reveal. Hilarious! I want one!