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EmilyChang.com Updates
After several weeks, I’ve finally finished porting my site over to a new minimal black and white design (bye, pink links!) and updated the platform. It feels really good to have everything redone in a way that reflects my current digital activity and also allows me to have more personal, and not just professional, expression. If [...]

SFMOMA Exhibit: Pipeline, Featuring Jeff Clark Surfboards
On Saturday, Max and I went to see Pipeline: Art, Surfing, and the Ocean Environment, an exhibit at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason showing July 16 – August 28, 2009. The ocean environment and the influence of surf culture on Bay Area art are explored in works by Jo Ann Biagini, Leo Bersamina, Charlie [...]

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Every Person In New York
Jason Polan, a New York artist, is on a mission to draw as many New Yorkers as he can and post the sketches on his blog, Every Person In New York. If you’re in the city and you want him to do a sketch of you, just email him 24 hours in advance and let [...]

Time-Lapse Video of the SF Bay Bridge Construction
Here?s a time-lapse video of last weekend?s San Francisco Bay Bridge construction closure made using a script that grabbed images from the bridge webcams. Via Laughing Squid

Quadcamera Display

The Browsable Grid
Several sites, including my own PicoCool, are taking advantage of the grid view as a fast way for users to browse content. Designers have been relying on the grid for generations as a layout technique. Lots of data-driven sites (eg. product comparisons or search results), web 2.0 services and blogs let users toggle their view [...]

Ideacodes and Mind Over Media

Web Open Font Format Moves Ahead
From Ars Technica: Efforts to bring advanced typography to the Web have reached an important milestone. Type designers Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, who had been working to developing the .webfont format, combined forces with Mozilla’s Jonathan Kew, who had been working independently on a similar format. The result of the collaboration is called Web [...]

Frank Stella?s Adelante
Adelante (1964) by Frank Stella painting | metallic powder in polymer emulsion on canvas Saw this again in person on Saturday at SFMOMA. One of my favorite paintings. The lines are made from the negative spacing between the polymer. Gorgeous in its subtlety.

Wordpress 2 for iPhone
The Wordpress version 2 iPhone app (iTunes link) is now available at the App Store. There’s also a new blog focused on the iPhone app. The app, just like Wordpress itself, is open source so anyone can contribute to it. This is a community effort! From the Wordpress iPhone blog So, what?s new in version 2? A new, [...]

Thirty Conversations on Design
Thirty Conversations on Design 30 of the world?s most inspired creatives answer two straightforward yet incredibly complex questions: “What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?” Via Brain Pickings on PicoCool

Lego Photo App
Lego has released a fun, free application for the iPhone, which lets you transform any photo into a Lego brick mosaic. You can take a new photo with the iPhone camera or use one of out of your library. There are a variety of color filters that you can swipe through and select. Visit the [...]

iPad Announced

Solar Panel Charger for iPhone
I like this new solar charger, the P-Flip? Foldable Solar Power from Denix. It’s foldable, rechargeable and generates up to 8 hours talk time, 15 hours of video or gaming, and 60 hours of music. The design makes it easy as to use as a desktop holder. Costs $79.90 USD. Via PicoCool

Siftables Coming Soon
From Siftables, the Amazing Computerized Toy Blocks, Are Coming To a Store Near You (Hopefully Soon): Sifteo, makers of Siftables, the ingenious cookie-sized computer blocks that play together in infinitely interesting ways, has today officially gone from MIT Media Lab research project to actual company. They’re now open for business, but you’ll have to wait a [...]