the coolest AJAX UI that I have ever seen

You have to read about how he did it, then check it out for yourself! so good.

Sol Design follows Tandus at the Neocon World’s Trade Fair this year to blog all about it.

Check it out / Tandus at Neocon

I love handmade typography & using post-it notes is such a fun idea. This typeface was created by Sanda Zahirovic, a student at Kingston University in London. Nice work!

I just picked up a sweet book called “Hand Job: A Catalog of Type“. It’s by Michael Perry, one of my favorite hand drawn typographers. He has done a lot of the work that I admire for Urban Outfitters & Polyvinyl Records. His stuff makes me want to get a pencil and start doodling.

FL909 drumcomputer - make some beats!

The first time I saw this I thought it was just a picture of the original drum machine that defined early house music. But no, it’s actually a fully functional clone of the beat machine created in flash. It even looks like it’s from 1984 with coffee stains and such (is that blood??). I was in love with Daft Punk’s album Homework which has the TR-909 all over it. Their latest effort Alive 2007, is a mashup of all their songs and it totally has me pumped about electronic music again. So if you’re like me & one of your goals for 2008 is to make more hot beats, lay down some high-hat & drop that b.a.s.s bass!

First cut, safety first!

I settled on using aspen as the material for the light color and availability.

A bunch of pictures are missing between here. The finger joints were one of the most in-depth parts of the process! But they are oh-so-classy

Cutting the hinge!
This was the test piece so I could photograph it. Cutting the actual piece felt like swimming in stars.

Installing the hinge.
A channel was routed in the back of the box so that the hinge would hide inside.

Burninating the screen (There was extra room so I snuck a poster in).
We wanted to put our logo on it and battled between the idea of laser etching or screen printing it. We settled on screen printing for the clean white on white look instead of burnt wood from the laser etching.

Putting the latches on and the outer panels. Almost a box. Exciting!

Screening printing the logo on.
Luckily it went on without a problem on the second try. Wood has a natural tendency to bow which made it hard to keep the screen flat on top of it. Crown up did the trick.

All together and clamped tight. Ready to be used the next morning.

It was fun pretending to be a woodworker. Now back to being a super nerd at the computer..

Found this great picture on Flickr the other day. You won’t find scenery like this in the ATL. So enjoy!

Freerice.com is a fun vocabulary test that hones your mind and gives rice to the needy through the UN Food Program. For every correct answer, you get a grain of rice in your bowl. After a half hour of playing, you should accumulate about a 1,000 grains which might be just enough for some rice pudding? Who knows.

Empty packaging designed by FLOWmarket has no function but to remind consumers about the negative trends of our global society. See for instance their piece on bottled water.

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