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Albuquerque on Schmap

Posted: Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 @ 11:36 am in Uncategorized, Travel, UI Design, Business, New Mexico | Comments Off

This site called Schmap contacted me a while back asking for permission to link to one of my Flickr photos of Old Town, Albuquerque. It’s not even a great photo, but it’s there. They do these travel guides, and I think flattering hordes of people on their photography skills is a great viral marketing technique. […]

COSM

Posted: Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 @ 12:14 am in Uncategorized, Art, UI Design | 3 Comments »

My friend Joel was in town this past weekend and while looking for something else, we very, VERY randomly ended up finding an art exhibition by one of his heroes, Alex Gray, who was actually there when we arrived giving a tour of his gallery/installation– the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, in West Chelsea.
http://www.cosm.org/
If you click […]

Marketing the next pres… hm, Reagan, I remember something about him…

Posted: Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 @ 12:44 am in Uncategorized, Rants, UI Design, Politics | 1 Comment »

OK, I know I’m not a super savvy political type, generally, except San Francisco did have an effect on me a bit in that way. But I think his article really speaks a ton to the media around the campaign–and is interesting for us designers:
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2008/02/27/campaign_logos/
Unlike the article’s author, I actually think Hillary’s and McCain’s look […]

User interface adventures in Deutschland, aka “I’ve seen better days…”

Posted: Thursday, June 14th, 2007 @ 12:03 pm in Uncategorized, Travel, Rants, UI Design, Random Observations, Germany | 2 Comments »

Dresden, Germany
I was going to try to write a funnier and lengthier summary and UI analysis of the past few days, but frankly my mood is a bit dark. Not just because yesterday sucked but the heat and noise in my apt. is keeping me up a bit at night. This “After Eight” sorbet was […]