Self initiated Frank Warren 2009-03-25T12:35:30+00:00 PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard, and the postcards are then published on the web. Anyone can contribute, and the secrets range from admissions of sexual misconduct to confessions of criminal activity. The site, which started as an experiment on Blogspot by Frank Warren in 2005, is updated with 20 new secrets every sunday. Naturally this site is American. I usually look at the site every couple of weeks, and for a couple of minutes I find it more than mildly entertaining. Although I have never sent in a secret on a postcard I like to think that one day I might. Anyone else who would like to get something off their chest should send Postcards to: Post Secret, 13345 Copper Ridge Rd, Germantown, Maryland 20874 206 0 0 0 0 0 2010-03-10T02:34:12+00:00 165 429 http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ Eye Magazine Esterson Associates 2008-08-05T12:46:09+00:00 Eye Magazine, still the finest looking and finest reading graphic design magazine in the world, has just launched its own blog. Now you can look and learn, and read and write back... I'm particularly pleased to see that the facility to book a lunch date with Paul Davis (from the Copyright Davis site) is accessible directly from the home page. :-) See also: <http://www.dynamolondon.org/projects/79> 173 0 0 0 0 0 2010-03-10T06:25:29+00:00 21 805 http://blog.eyemagazine.com/ HBO NY 2008-04-08T10:22:23+00:00 I've been meaning to post this for months. It won at the Design Week Awards this year and is really rather special. I'm still not too sure what it's all about, as its navigation is quite 'dense' and there is a lot going on, nor am I sure how it links to the broadcast aspect (OK, I haven't spent enough time delving into it), but I love the concept, the dark aesthetic, the implicit reference to Hitchcock's 'Rear Window', the integration of video into the web page, the density of detail... Sadly I think its no longer 'current' but some exploration will reward on many levels anyway. By way of introduction, here's what it says about it on the accompanying blog 'The story gets deeper': "The HBO Voyeur Project is a collection of multi-media stories that HBO has built around the theme of voyeurism. 'See what people do when they think no one is Watching' is the tagline that they have used to describe the experience that starts in the streets of New York City, behind the countless windows that we pass everyday. It comes together in a silent film that will be projected on the side of a building, and extends to the HBO channel, HBO on Demand, and online at HBOVoyeur.com. There are also “artifacts” of the characters everywhere, pieces of story which have been sprinkled around the web and in the real world to heighten the experience for those who like to get involved." Take a look... 143 0 2 2 1 0 2010-03-09T20:03:36+00:00 21 778 http://www.hbovoyeur.com Themselves CASA, UCL 2008-04-02T00:14:57+00:00 Recently met these very interesting guys down at CASA – the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. They were responsible for the Virtual London model. Just a great blog crammed with urban visual experiments, playing with mash-ups, tutorials and 3D tube maps in all dimensions and colours. 140 0 Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith and the people at CASA 0 3 2 0 2010-03-07T20:40:58+00:00 23 713 http://digitalurban.blogspot.com BBC Magazines Poke 2008-01-21T10:43:18+00:00 Although I do like cookery books, and there's something very satisfying about opening an old one and seeing the evidence of attempted previous recipes, I very rarely buy them. I use the internet to find recipies quite a lot and until I found this site I would use the BBC's own Food section. BBC Good Food was something of a revolution when I found it, and although I have only just started to use the more advanced features it feels like it has struck a good balance between useful features where you need them, and a quick navigation (imperative when 80% of your audience are probably hungry). Its a great example of how people will be prepared to register for a service if they feel they are going to get something back in return, in this case a recipe 'binder' and the ability to comment on, submit and rate other's recipes. There are also some clever things happing behind the scenes to make the typography very palatable. As we all know internet typography is very much in its infancy and so sites like this should be commended for pushing things forward. And to finish with a cliché, bon appétit. 124 0 1 1 1 0 2010-03-06T08:10:22+00:00 13 696 http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ Jim 2007-09-19T04:22:54+00:00 "Your daily dose of design inspiration" although to be honest they could call it "your hourly fix of quality design" such is the regularity of the updates and consistently high standard of featured work. The tireless posting of work has lead to a vary large following for this simple yet perfectly formed blog. Subscribe and have something to inspire you during your lunch break. It also features a Directory of design companies which is a fantastic resource, and recently has spawned a new section entitled 'Redesigners' which offers public briefs to anyone who wants to answer them, and then publishes the entries for all to scrutinise. Admittedly there isn't a comercial drive behind it, but that's precisely why it works so well. Subscribe, stimulate, submit. 102 0 1 0 1 0 2010-03-05T01:05:39+00:00 13 689 http://www.serifpublishing.com/ Frukt 2007-09-06T05:49:00+00:00 As we all know the entire music industry has been in turmoil ever since digital media began to redefine the ways in which music can be created, distributed, enjoyed and discussed. Anyone wanting to stay in tune, as it were, should really subscribe to Brands | Bands | Fans, a monthly newsletter brought to you by music industry strategists, Frukt, as a free adjunct to their other professional endeavours. It's serious. And funny. I won't say more. Just read it. 95 0 Editor Jack Horner 0 1 1 0 2010-03-06T03:16:41+00:00 21 804 http://www.brandsbandsfans.com Tim Milne 2007-08-18T03:21:25+00:00 From the early 80s onwards, a colleague of mine, Tim Milne, ran Artomatic, the finest screen printing company in London, which was incidentally one of the earliest residents in Shoreditch (but that's a whole other story). By the 90s he had moved the company from Curtain Road to open a shop in Clerkenwell stocking curious and wonderful printed artefacts, and simultaneously started his revolutionary 'ideas library' for professional designers. Facing certain difficulties around the turn of the century, Artomatic sadly closed its doors on Great Sutton Street. I'm pleased to see that Tim is now back and no less challenging with his ideas. He is now exploring his creative thinking via his recently started blog, (un), which takes a consistently alternate view of all media convention. I won't attempt to paraphrase what he expresses best for himself... 86 0 Tim Milne 2 1 2 0 2010-03-08T02:42:54+00:00 21 1069 http://unplanning.net/ Oral Fixation Mints (Of which Jon is a founder) Jon Harris 2007-05-19T05:49:27+00:00 Through large scale blog analysis, Lovelines illuminates the topography of the emotional landscape between love and hate, as experienced by countless normal humans keeping personal online journals. 64 0 Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar 2 2 1 0 2010-03-03T19:35:06+00:00 165 817 http://www.love-lines.com John Maeda 2007-05-02T03:58:48+00:00 Everybody's blogging nowadays. This one is written by MIT guru John Maeda, whose new exhibition apparently opened at Riflemaker Gallery on Beak Street yesterday (1 May 2007), although I can't yet see any mention of it on the Riflemaker site. http://www.riflemaker.org This blog outlines Maeda's ten laws of simplicity, and simplicity is always appreciated, of course. 61 0 John Maeda 0 0 0 0 2010-03-07T15:09:26+00:00 21 585 http://www.lawsofsimplicity.com