Shane Johnston

Play, it seems, is always an essential component of work.

Play, it seems, is always an essential component of work.

Poor fool. 

Gimme that B-roll. This is what stock is meant for.

Great

Shane Johnston: purity and free from clutter

An exciting example of American Folk Art. 

Design story: The Decanter (by Landor Associates)

Makes me wish I was a designer in the times of taking it slow (relatively) and before the computer. Smoking while drawing is also a huge plus.

Sarah is always getting called out on looking like Natalie Wood. Wannabe.

“It’s designed for you, but built for your husband” 

New Project on the way, a field guide to Web UI elements. The goal is to categorize and “capture” a specimine of each element in it’s natural habitat. The set will be complete with high quality wire-framing, IA and sketch elements for keynote, AI, PS, Omnigraffle and others as well as contextual guides on usage. Stay tuned.

SketchChair (by Greg Saul)

Simply fantastic! Can we say “straight to Ponoko”?0 Unfortunately, nothing is available for us Mac users yet.

I would love one of these for bicycles…

Charles on Broad St.

It’s not terribly clear, but he is on a toilet. Taken in Philadelphia. Oh Philly…

What a serene little family. Decorating the tree is THE most important Hyland family tradition.

“I washed my hair and I cant do a thing with it.”

Found in shoebox at the Chelsea flee market. 

Holgas, gotta love ‘em. Sidewalk in Union Square.

Since I’m not privy to this language, I call him “baby face nellie”

Shoebox in Chelsea Flee Market.

A new hypothesis has been brewing in my head for a few minutes now that, at first, may sound completely incredulous and absolutely absurd (aren’t most breakthrough ideas). I cannot however take all the credit for this gem as it came out of a off the cuff remark I made to a colleague:

Colleague: BMI stands for (insert corporate acronym here).

Me: I thought it stood for Body Mass Index?

Colleague: Ha! That’s what i thought at first too…that and crap…

Me: Well, it could. Bowel Movement Index, it could be a completely new way of measuring national health or even happiness. I mean, what if there were a corralation between BM frequency and GDH (gross domestic happiness). It could even be used as a financial trend analysis tool. One would only need to conduct a BMA (Bowel Movement Analysis) to determine the relative health of the economic system. Possibly companies will begin including their workforces BMI into annual reports.

Colleague: (bout of laughter).

I think it’s plausible at the least, if nothing else it has firm roots in the relationship of health, well-being and national sentiment. A nation constipated is a nation in anxiety…or massive discomfort.

Designing for delight (Giles Colborne)

By no means is this presentation scientific in its analysis of “delight” but it does make some keen observations on the underlying principles of positive user experiences. Emotional leveraging is the general category.

On Content Strategy:

Louis Rosenfeld

Inglorious Bastards (1978)

I just gave this a watch and am hesitant to praise it. Often it seems the merit of older B-movies is given de facto upon rediscovery by some director/writer/producer. Bullshit. This was a turd of a flick with multiple redemption interventions. Check it out on Netflix but I find it disconcerting that remakes lend credit to their predecessors. Sure, the concept is there. Meanwhile ideas are a dime a dozen, it’s the execution that matters.

Also, I think the Rob Downey Jr. character in Tropic Thunder (kirk lazarus) was inspired by the Fred Williamson in Inglorious Bastards c.1978 

A young couple at a “last chance” highschool.

Outside Philadelphia, 2007

Sarah and I. Circa 2007.

Found these in an old shoebox. Hip is certainly vintage.

empiricle proof that more heads only equal more mouths.

Brainstorming in a group became popular in 1953 with the publication of a business book, Applied Imagination. But it’s been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas separately than together.

via larryfire.files.wordpress.com

Someone at the agency must have had a lisp.

How people used their TV cabinets before television.

Willmington Ohio, 2010

The End of History Beer

What the Fuck, I need this.

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