Idea of the day: Eco-friendly pizza box

Watch this 45-second video. Then smack yourself on the forehead for not thinking of it first.

(HT: Doug Flather)

Dome of the day

Here’s a 24-foot Buckminster Fuller dome in the lobby of NeoCon 09.  This is the first time I’ve seen one of Bucky’s domes in person. It’s pretty cool and a bit wacky — much like the man himself.

Avoiding bad habits the Eames way

In preparing for a visit to NeoCon 2009, I’ve been doing a fair bit of research on the utterly fascinating lives of Charles and Ray Eames.The Eameses, as most of you know, created, well, everything. Furniture. Graphics. Sculptures. Medical equipment. Films.In the 1930s, Charles, at the time somewhat frustrated with his architectural practice, picked up […]

Business card of the day

(via Adam Richardson)

Telling stories in new ways

Did Tomas Nilson just tell the entire Little Red Riding Hood story using nothing but infographics?You’re damn right he did. Just watch below.

(via Flowing Data)

We know what’s really behind that “door”

At my son’s swim practice today, I snapped a photo of this sign — and immediately sent it to one my favorite sites: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.

Four letters separated by four decades

In 1966, Robert Indiana gave the world a four-letter sculpture that soon became iconic.Today, on Design Observer, I saw a piece that pays homage to Indiana. (”Homage to Indiana” is totally a title for a mediocre independent film — Ed.) Like many works that have parodied Indiana’s work, this four-letter sculpture bears a superficial resemblance […]

Factoid of the day: No place like (not-so-big) home

“New homes, after doubling in size since 1960, are shrinking. Last year, for the first time in at least 10 years, the average square footage of single-family homes under construction fell dramatically, from 2,629 in the second quarter to 2,343 in the fourth quarter, Census data show.”(Source: USA Today via Unclutterer)

Is getting an MFA worth the debt?

Allen Cochran of Cincinnati sent me an email the other day in which he asked an interesting question. Here’s what he wrote:“I applied to and was accepted to the The Ohio State University’s graduate school for Visual Communication and Design Development. I have worked as a freelance graphic designer since I was 15 but have […]

Craig D = Verbal SAT + Math SAT - SAT

Craig Damrauer is an artist who has renders abstract concepts in the orderly form of equations. I know — that doesn’t make much sense. So check out a few examples of his work below or at MoreNewMath.