September 2009
8 posts
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More symmetry in places
After spending some time obsessing about Nils Jorgensen earlier this week, symmetry has been on my mind a lot. Its always nice to just find a piece of work that just captures all the stuff you are thinking about and Aakash came up trumps today.
Such a great picture.
August 2009
6 posts
Redesigning Craigslist
I have been thinking a lot about matching design to purpose recently, particularly as we put the final touches to the way that we are laying out admitfan.
Its just essential that the way that a page looks, feels and responds is totally aligned with what role that page is trying to serve. There are plenty of examples of sites that get this just right, and just as many that haven’t figured...
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Sad mathematician that I am, I have always loved symmetry in life - numbers and patterns sit tightly together.
So it is always going to grab my attention when someone is able to explore symmetry in real life, in the every day scenes around us. Nils Jorgensen has been collecting photographs of symmetrical instances that he sees in his travels for a long time on his blog.
Its a fascinating...
The Cove
Almost 12 months ago my buddy Fisher invited me to go see a first cut of a movie that he was producing. He told me that the film was about dolphins in Japan, and armed with that brief description I went along to check it out.
As it turns out, the film follows a dedicated group of film-makers uncovering humanitarian atrocities that are happening in small fishing town called Taiji in Japan. The...
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