Category: arts

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  • Get it right.

    Get it right.

    “Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about the big…

  • Dead Pixel Society

    Dead Pixel Society

    FANS OF ICON ART and The Big Web Show, listen up. Tomorrow’s Big Web Show guest is Justin Dauer (AKA @pseudoroom) of The Dead Pixel Society. Justin was a web icon artist in the mid-1990s,…

  • NYC Must-See

    NYC Must-See

    People who are coming to New York for the first time always ask me what they should see. So I’ve made a little list. Here are eighteen of my favorite places in New York City.

  • Making of a Star Wars classic

    Making of a Star Wars classic

    On Set: Empire Strikes Back | Vanity Fair.

  • Kickstart Sundman’s Creation

    Kickstart Sundman’s Creation

    John Sundman is looking for your financial support so he can finish writing and publish his fourth novel, Creation Science.

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    Part of this complete breakfast.

  • Time Warner Cable canceling Noggin?

    Time Warner Cable canceling Noggin?

    Although Time Warner Cable’s uncountable levels of existential suckage could induce vomiting in a giraffe, reality is never as clear-cut as a crawl on Noggin.

  • An e-mail from Chip Kidd

    An e-mail from Chip Kidd

    I’ll never forget the day Chip Kidd sent me an e-mail. Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys, the book that does for design school what Nathaniel West’s Day of the Locust did for Hollywood.…

  • Stick out your tongue

    Stick out your tongue

    While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…

  • Link ‘n Park

    Link ‘n Park

    A lifetime’s worth of comic book covers, deep thoughts on ubiquitous digitization, Spool on lessons learned when new features tank, and much more.

  • Ambient Informatics at Cooper Union

    Ambient Informatics at Cooper Union

    How will the advent of ubiquitous computing change urban places?