Here is how it all came together. The origin of the mark goes like this: Knight wanted to differentiate BRS‘s custom product from the ones they were importing from Onituska in Japan: "…so Knight turned to a graphic design student he met at Portland State University two years earlier." One day in 1969, the student, [...]
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When the church runs out of ideas.
How many times have we seen this format in the last couple of months. TED, Christianity 21, the Nines, a couple other copycat conferences that have numbers in them, now this. A copycat conference with the same speakers, peddling their wares in a fixed format. Tell me again where the fresh idea is? C’mon. There [...]
Free download of Human Centered Design Toolkit
This free download comes to you from IDEO. IDEO partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, ICRW, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a toolkit for applying Human-Centered Design to inspire new solutions to difficult challenges within communities of need. Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new [...]
All new materialicious
materialicious™ has been relaunched with a new design. materialicious™ is a visual curation site featuring residential architecture and design, craftsmanship, materials and products and has long been one of my favorite sites on the web. The new design is a big departure from the old Typepad hosted site but after a couple of days of [...]
The National Film Board Opens the Archives
I think we are all in agreement, that is the greatest Canadian short ever made. I found it while checking out the National Film Board‘s new site which has high quality streaming videos for free. Not only does this excite the historian in me, it excites the Residential Coordinator in me as the guys at [...]
The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
Over the years I have become a big fan of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company designs and what Jay Schafer is doing there. Not only does Tumbleweed design great homes, I have really come to appreciate their website. It is an excellent design with a great CMS and uses web services like Flickr really effectively. I [...]
What Makes for a Good Blog?
Merlin Mann of 43 Folders fame has a list of things he thinks makes up a good blog. I’ve come to believe that creative life in the first-world comes down to those who try just a little bit harder. Then, there’s the other 98%. They’re still eating the free continental breakfast over at FriendFeed. A [...]
The rustic re-use cabin
I live this a lot and it only cost $15,000.00 so far to build. Paul Stankey (of hive Modular prefab fame) and his brother Scott (and their wives) have (almost) completed the container cabin they’ve been building on their family property in northern Minnesota for the past nine years. Cost so far: $15,000. Readymade Digital [...]
