Author Archives: Peter

Crack Lock.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 18, 2010. Filed under consumer, design, guerrilla, pranks, user interface. No comments.
Crack Lock.
I haven’t actually tried this yet, but I’ve always been intrigued by locks and their vulnerabilities.  This diagram purports that any combination lock can be cracked relatively quickly with an applied process.  Hmmm.

The 1-second Flight.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 17, 2010. Filed under uncategorized. No comments.
I believe that this is from Intel’s lobby.  Really puts Moore’s Law and the explosive expansion of technology in perspective.

Support Your Local Heroin Brand.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 9, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, graffiti, guerrilla. No comments.
Support Your Local Heroin Brand.
Neat blurb about a startup art project documenting ‘heroin brands’ – the stamps found on bags of heroin identifying their maker or seller.  This has always been a little intriguing to me.  You can support their project with a small donation here.

Hell Freezes Over.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 8, 2010. Filed under orleans. No comments.
Hell Freezes Over.
Wow.  The New Orleans Saints, after 43 years of disappointment, won the Super Bowl last night.  Pretty crazy.  Overshadows the historic municipal elections over the weekend, and Mardi Gras is firing up to boot.  Pass the Tylenol. And to underscore the point, there’s this:

State of the Web.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 3, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
Great infographic re: web usage and demographic stats from focus.com.

iCarumba.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 28, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
iCarumba.
Like many, I’ve had a long, strange relationship with Apple.  Since the 80s I’ve owned Apple II’s, Macintoshes, Performas, Quadras, G4s, G5s, Powerbooks, MacBooks, iBooks, iPods, iPhones, etc etc etc.  My disposition toward the company teeters between unabashed fanboy-ism to outright fury. Because we live in an age of rapid progress, I can’t find fault with [...]

UI Realism.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, user interface, work. No comments.
UI Realism.
I was a huge fan of Marvel Comics growing up, and love Scott McCloud’s books on comic art’s ability to communicate across languages via symbology, etc.  Found an article recently by Lukas Mathis of ignorethecode.net that applies cartoon principles to User Interface (UI) design.  Not quite ‘less is more’, but rather ‘just enough is correct’ [...]

00’s Infographic.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 13, 2010. Filed under business, consumer, design, politics, trend. No comments.
What’s changed?  A lot. Click image to get to glorious ‘big’ view.

Bankrupt Mall of America.

Written by Peter. Posted on December 22, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, trend. No comments.
Delicious infographic from the economic crisis blog.  Apparently something called Consumer Sentiment is down to its lowest levels since 1980.  Coincidentally, so is my Frequency of Visits to Crappy Stores at Crowded Malls index.

Puck the System.

Written by Peter. Posted on December 15, 2009. Filed under annunciation, business, consumer, design, interactive, technology, user interface, vids. No comments.
Puck the System.
This is pretty rad – a RFID wireless ‘puck’ that can be used as a remote to interact w. sensors to control whatever parameters you’ve got set up – in this case, mood lighting…