March 2011

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Mar 09, 2011

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The algorithmic design represents the Media Lab’s first official stab at a coherent identity, and it’s high time. The Lab has transformed from a scruffy operation focused on quaintly enhancing the “digital revolution” into a full-blown brand synonymous with wild experimentation, collaboration, and big-time math geeks. Now, it’s got the graphic design to match. The basic...

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Mar 09, 2011

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City Walk #5: Shimbashi Station Buildings 1 and 2, Tokyo I don't think I've ever seen an amateur video that captures the feel of Tokyo as well as this one, and it has everything to do with its simplicity: its eye-level perspective, its ordinary subject matter, its clear, natural sounds. Just past the minute mark, when...

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Mar 08, 2011

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I just learned how to put a start time in YouTube embed codes so I don't feel so bad about posting this amazing story montage about friendship featuring Starsky & Hutch and Gordon Lightfoot. Just give it 20 seconds from hitting play and pay attention to the lyrics. The line "...

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Mar 07, 2011

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Talk at MagCulture.com about the NYT Magazine's redesign led to the flickr page of Francesco Franchi, art director of IL, the aesthetic appeal of which does a lot to counteract  the magazine's name ("Intelligence in Lifestyle") and identity as a men's insert in a financial newspaper. I can't read Italian so this is far from...

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Mar 05, 2011

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Nonprofit organization, Canstruction, holds annual design and build competitions to construct fantastic, giant sized, structures made entirely out of canned food. In each city after the structures are built and the winners declared, the creations go on view to the general public as giant art exhibits. At the close of the competitions all of the...