Jumpman - Tribute

Love him or hate him Michael Jordan is the most influential sports figure of recent time and it can all be documented by the shoes he wore. So check out this awesome flash site about the man and the shoe

SITE HERE

iArmy - THE Podcomic

My latest insert in the fray of podcasting has arrived today in the form of a comic. But not an ordinary comic. It's a webcomic in a podcast, I call it a PODCOMIC. In the podcast iArmy I have created characters that I voice and I enjoy them, and thought they would translate well over into print or video. Enjoying to do comics and such I created these on post-its and put them in a book then scanned them in for enjoyment. I will be posting one a week and have a better explination of these in my latest DESIGN-Episode#29 (to air on Friday).

PS3 Slim is too hot for teacher

My nephew informed me yesterday that his friend bought a PS3 Slim last week. So I said thats cool does he like it.
He said no it overheated and stopped working.
I was like dizam buddy what happened.
He said that it does not have a fan and when it gets too hot the thermometer tells the system to shut down. And the system did not shut down. His friend tried to return it to both the store and Sony both telling him that they will not take it back because it has water damage.
Editorial:
WTF! Why would Sony cheap out and replace a fan with a thermometer? Because I have an orginal PS3 and that mother gets hotter than a eskimo in Florida on Spring Break. And then for the store and Sony both to say that oops it has water damage so we can't return it. That's so BS I mean did they think that the kid was playing with it in the tub durring bath time or something, it was only a week old.
Is anyone else having this problem... Someone better get to the bottom of this.

UPDATE: I was corrected there is a tiny fan (oh well). They should have consulted Tim the Toolman Taylor on this.

Two Turn Tables and a WHAT???

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

cAPPtain iPhone HERE!

Hello to all you iArmy listeners out there, cAPPtain iPhone here.

There are several ways you can submit a ringtone to be posted within our podcast.

Method 1

Email us any type of audio file or suggestions to capp.iarmy@gmail.com

file type does not matter we flatten it with 1000 iArmy iPhone soldiers into a ringtone.

Method 2

call us and leave a voice mail of what you would like your submission to be

1-206-203-2363 (not toll free)

Method 3

Email us a link to a site with audio or video that we can use.

Once we receive your submission if we use it you will receive a special iArmy image you can use anywhere to denote yourself as an iArmy general.

If you need other help porting the ringtones to your phone please email us.

Drop and give me 10 solider

My Office - The Cubicle Porch

Andy and I recently had a show where we kind of (very shortly) discussed what it is like in our office.

Well whenever someone goes on extended vacation we tend to give them a little something to come back to. Our lead designer comes back from vacation on Monday and we thought it would be funny to make a front porch for her cube.

So we did a cube renovation and made a porch for her cube.

The idea came from a box top turned into a awening. The photos don't do the awening justice but it's funny none the less.

Myself and Andy hanging out on the porch.

Bill Moggridge | National Design Awards 2009 | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

The 10th National Design Awards were held recently.
All of the winners look like fluff to me except the lifetime achiver found on the link below.

Bill Moggridge National Design Awards 2009 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

The google OS - FINALLY

It seems that Google really was making an OS all this time they said they weren't (but we all knew they really were). This will be a great asset in the OS wars and maybe get all the companies off their butts and get them thinking more user friendly (instead of money for them friendly). Check out the google blog link below for all the fuzzy details.

Permalink

BttF : the cake

Awesomeness!!!

org. link here

Design is in the New & Notable on iTunes

Hey everyone check out Design on the New & Notable section of Arts / Design.
Pretty frickin sweet if you ask me. I can now retire as a podcaster a happy happy guy.
But not so fast we still have to crack the top 50 post. We can do it!

NEW DESIGN PODCAST

In a effort to unify our blog with our podcasts we have created a podcast all about design. So if you like superdesignmonster please give us a listen and download all our new shows here and at the IPA . Don't forget to check us out on iTunes too!

Design - Episode #1

New Podcast

check out 1 new podcast on IPA network

Sports Applied!

For all the sports nuts out there that know all the sports terminology we take that and apply it to everyday life

Sports Applied - Episode #1

Design for the ages

The time to design is now... Not later...

Think about it for a minute when was the last time you saw something that inspired you? When was the last time you saw something that was so well designed or executed that you were like holy crapola?

And you just thought to yourself of your answer but the real answer here is not likely any time in the near past...

The last time you saw something great was when you were a kid and you realized something for the first time. Like oh that's a screwdriver but electric and it works twice as fast and harder than this thing I am using. Like the time you first learned to velcro your shoes and you thought velcro was the greatest invention ever.

It's the first experience that a user has with a new product or idea that is the most critical. If you can get that person to feel like they are the first to discover your product and that it can spark some idea of their own. And it can then be carried into other generations of your product. A recent example of that would be the iPod. The first model was great but every model succeeding the first is pretty much the same thing with a new color.

And there is no time like the present we seem to be at a lul of great ideas right now or at least nothing that has impressed me, not even the iPod.

Design on!!!

New Podcast

We now have a new podcast to our library. Political Youth has served it's time in the trenches and we are moving on to bigger and better podcasts. We now present to you "Streakin!" Please download our first show below and we want to hear from you the listener send us your stories, vids and photos (try and be funny and tasteful). And we will read them or post them on the cast. Thanks for listening... indypodcaster@gmail.com

Streaking! Episode #1

New Style Blog / Podcast

We have a new blog/podcast site up.

Please visit it at http://indypodcasters.blogspot.com/

Our first podcast is a political style podcast but we will have a design style podcast soon also check us out on itunes.