January 2009
27 posts
Super Bowl Commercials | Adland →
Superbowl ads from 1969 to present
Jan 30th
2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom →
According to the World Bank, educating all children worldwide will require the construction of 10 million new classrooms in more than 100 countries by 2015. At the same time, millions of existing classrooms are in serious need of repair and refurbishment.
Jan 29th
Jan 25th
“why is this man, the biggest star in hip-hop, trying to sound like a robot?”
Jan 23rd
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Elephants try to forget on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Jan 20th
Interactive News Team -- Talk to the Newsroom --... →
Members of The New York Times’s interactive news collaborative, recently featured in New York Magazine, are answering questions from readers Jan. 19-23, 2009. Questions may be e-mailed to askthetimes@nytimes.com.
Jan 20th
Inaugural Words - 1789 to the Present -... →
Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.
Jan 20th
Napoleon's piles: How footnotes changed history - →
Jan 12th
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
– Bob Dylan
Jan 11th
“But a bridge is just a bridge. Once it’s up, it stops stimulating”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Tax Cuts for Teachers - NYTimes.com
Jan 11th
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Jan 9th
“So how does change happen? Major change often comes stealthily. Its...”
Jan 9th
Jan 9th
End Times - The Atlantic →
But what if the old media dies much more quickly? What if a hurricane comes along and obliterates the dunes entirely? Specifically, what if TheNew York Times goes out of business—like, this May?
Jan 9th
“Regardless of what happens over the next few months, The Times is destined for...”
– End Times - The Atlantic (January/February 2009)
Jan 9th
“We are the fortunate benefactors, not the dupes, of design’s evolution...”
– Design Observer
Jan 8th
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TreeWaxHD on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
Jan 7th
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FormFiftyFive - Design inspiration from around the world
Jan 7th
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Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Jan 6th
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Design Loves a Depression - NYTimes.com →
Jan 5th
“American designers took the Depression as a call to arms”
– Design Loves a Depression - NYTimes.com
Jan 5th
Jan 5th
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“a 1,300-page monograph as lush as glazed fruit and weighty as firewood.”
– S,M,L,XL Design Loves a Depression - NYTimes.com
Jan 5th