Wakefield draws more fire for bogus autism/vaccine study | Autism Blogger

Wakefield draws more fire for bogus autism/vaccine study | Autism Blogger - Here's a little blurb about a story I've been hearing about in different stages for the last 13 years. There was a doctor that said vacines were linked to autism. Well the great thing about science is that you have to be able to reproduce the results. Guess what, they weren't able to reproduce. And now there are many parents in this world that refuse to get vaccines because of what is now an urban myth.

So now we come to the year 2010 and guess what it seems he may not have been using science for his findings. I don't know why someone would fake result like this. Now more children are at risk and there re still people out there that believe in those origina unconfirmed findings. But then again I guess people believe in a lot of stupid things and it could be said it is ignorance that is responsible for the deaths of so many people.

2046 Design - Some of the best posters I've seen in a long time.

2046 Design - So what do you get when you combine comic books and vintage posters? You get the work of Justing Van Genderen. This guy is nuts and the posters prove it. I want them all even though I don't care about Captan Britain or the Fantastic Four.

Oh and for those not in the know, the picture posted is for the Manga(and Anime) epic Akira.

You can pick up a print of his here

This is the art of photoshop.

www.peterlangenhahn.com – This guy is kind of insane, his final output can take six hours to save. But what is he doing? He is compositing images of an event into one frame, it reminds me of the wheres Waldo of yesterday but now it's done with real photos and are just really epic. He scenic shots are also remarkable but it seem most of his photos are in Norge and so he is guaranteed a much better subject for photography than Kansas.

Those are some scary info graphics

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus from Patrick Clair on Vimeo.

So there are info graphics and then there are motin graphics and then sometimes they come together. In this case in a very scary way. The video is about stuxnet, and if you don't know what it is here is a brief explanation. Stuxnet is a very advanced computer virus designed to disable the Iranian Nuclear program. No body knows who made it but all that may be old news and you'll understand why after you watch the video.

Dear Photograph

Dear Photograph – I've seen many photos retaken but this is a great site to see photos juxtaposed against the place now. Not much to say beyond check it out.

Meet the Gömböc, one of the strangest shapes in the world - io9

Meet the Gömböc, one of the strangest shapes in the world - io9 So this is a shape that was a theory but now is real and I enjoy it. The shape has only one stable position so no matter how you lay it on a flat surface it will always right it's self.

Is It Safe to Cut Off the Mold and Use the Rest? | Is It Safe to Eat Moldy Bread? | Is Moldy Cheese Safe to Eat? | Life's Little Mysteries

Is It Safe to Cut Off the Mold and Use the Rest? | Is It Safe to Eat Moldy Bread? | Is Moldy Cheese Safe to Eat? | Life's Little Mysteries – Will I keep pealing that part off the bread? Yes. So why am I not concerned? it's a small spot and it took mold to make the bread. I wasn't concerned when they said you can find bacteria on salads either since we ourselves are covered in them so it's reasonable to expect something low lying to the ground to have some soon. I've always washed by food so I'm cool.

If it the me from lets say 14 years ago I'm sure I would have some words with my dad and I still plan on sending him the article just to freak him out a little. Sad news today I leave Two Rivers and the Hamilton Type Museum, I wish I had more time to do more work but it's been 5 days working and 7 away from home so I think I'm done living in a motel. They offer workshops all the time so you should check it out, or even their website and pick up some prints to support the museum. I'll write about it more later when I get back in town and upload the rest of my pictures to flickr.

W3C HTML5 Logo

W3C HTML5 Logo - funny thing I'm here at hamilton working on the presses and my first blog post is about a logo. Well it is what it is I guess. So we now have a logo for a code standard and it strikes me as just a little odd but I do like the outcome(I'm partial to orange at the very least). Normally we brand "things" and although you could say html 5 is a thing it also is a little more intangible than lets say USB that also has a logo or wireless standards.

Here is my concern with it, how long will we have html 5? Sure we have only gone through 5 versions since the early 90's but does it deserve or require extensive branding? And I'm also thinking at how fast code can evolve and transmute with .1 updates and so on so maybe I'd feel better about it if it were just an html logo vs. the very strong 5 reference. Sure I'm nitpicking but look at the way they handled the firewire logo(always wondered why there was no fire in it) the standard have gone through a few changes over the years and usually goes by the ieee standards that seem to forego rev1 -rev1.2 and so on. And yet we know it's firewire because of the little logo. The same can be said for the wireless logo but it has really excelled at readability and ease of use. I would say it is one of the best cases of branding a tech standard.

Will the use of the html5 logo help html? Don't really think so it just one of those things that will get used no matter what I don't see any rivals really even Java and Flash need to operate within html environments and we only see limited use of html outside of the web we can't filter our web by html 5 only and most won't loose sleep over if the site they view use html5(unless you are on an older system with out a compatible browser). So html5 and it's brand seem really pointless to me in the end, even if I think they did a pretty good job on the logo.

Yet another reason to buy an iPad

Typography Insight - New ways of learning&teaching typefaces – Now if only I had the money. This program looks awesome, the ability to compare typefaces and multiple previews and it seems to link to the wiki articles on the typeface. Now if only it was released and I had money to buy an iPad. Anyone want to flip the bill for me?

OMG Sitting is Killing You INFO GRAPHICS

Sitting is Killing YouYeah that's right and you can check out these swank info graphics that should convince you to stand more. I need to think about more info graphics I think.

Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » living in: badlands

Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » living in: badlands - Oh look something to do with Badlands always like seeing things that somehow relate o work I've done. I ended up writing a comparison piece about True Romance and one of the points I used was the music and dynamics from Badlands. I'm thinking I should just start posting this I write about movies.

You Don’t Really Strike Me as an Arial: Selecting Font and Color for Your Words | Fuel Your Creativity

You Don’t Really Strike Me as an Arial: Selecting Font and Color for Your Words | Fuel Your Creativity – so here is a quick post. Check the link out and it should help you choose a typeface and I think more people could find this useful than less.

This is for the guys that use clip ons

To develop a new typeface for this digital age.

So we read most things from computer screens now where as before we read from print. So some might think the Typefaces of old would work well for us today right? Nope and even thoguh we have been designing typefaces on computers for computers they weren't really though out for the wide range screen sizes and densities we use. From my quick bit of research Digi Grotesk was the first digitally created Typeface (sorry I'm omitting terminal typefaces as they are a product of engineers and not typedesigner) but it was designed with a CRT (cathode ray tube aka non lcd/plasma screen displays think about old tv's and computer monitors) and they had a much lower pixel density compared to current displays.

What is pixel density, I guess I could put a picture up.

There we are so that above is what a crt looked like when you got really close, about half the range of viewing before my mom would shriek I would go blind. There are other aspects that are different like scan lines and refresh rate that are also different between crt and lcds too but I don't want to go on too much.

So we have many typefaces that are designed in the 80's for use on computers (mostly to avoid paying for them ahem Microsoft) Georgia, Tahoma and the like. They emulated fonts we already knew like Helvetica became Arial but we are now finding they just aren't up to snuff for our new screens, and the more simple a font is the less retention in our memory fo we have a new age of font upon us and we are armed and well equipped to handle the situation.

I may have made mention of Nokia PURE, this is a font designed for Nokia for use on small screens and they have made it a playful one at that. The forms seem much more interactive with each other and legibility on smaller screens has increased greatly. I wish I could run it on my mobil to be honest. Nokia has a great blog about their design here.

So now fontshop was the first foundry to address web typography with a web pack of typefaces but they have taken it a step further and have a new typeface Azuro that has been tested on all major mobil platforms and was designed with them in mind. So if you think typography is just the realm of print and letter press you have another thing coming, who do you think is going to design those new apps for tablets and phones, or the layout of the new interactive zines? Here is a great article about the development of Azuro here.

Oh snap some more video.

So I was not and early adopter of Apple TV and I really only picked one up because I needed to sell other things to make money and this was the cheapest device to get what I wanted done when it came to AV shit. So after months of owning it I find out there are video podcasts and I'm like whoa awesome and they are free so double awesome. And then I found out TED had HD videos I could watch through it and I've been pretty happy. So they put one up each day and they range from 5 to 20 minutes. As I am now done with classes I thought I would watch a few while I blogged some articles I ad found this month and this video came on and I just wanted to share it. It's funny and includes art and tech.

And also here is a link to his project Art Project, its basically an online art gallery with gigapixel views and metadata an is real something I've looked forward to. Technology had a promise od democratizing learning and knowledge but has always fallen short when it comes to learning about art(art history majors suck at taking photos of work) so yeah this is really exciting for me at least.

Oh my Letterpress

Great little video that kinda runs through some of the basics of letterpress. Something to muse on with the leed up to Hamilton.

Letterpress from Naomie Ross on Vimeo.

Mizzou Professor says nantenna solar sheet soaks up 90 percent of the sun's rays, puts sunscreen to shame -- Engadget

Mizzou Professor says nantenna solar sheet soaks up 90 percent of the sun's rays, puts sunscreen to shame -- Engadget Well we lost but I'm not even sure if KU was trying to get this done. I'm glad to hear it was in the region at very least. So this kinda thing could make solar energy viable for everyday use, so maybe one day a panel out your window would be enough to power most stuff in your house or a panel on top of your ac unit would be enough to power it. So that's a lot of money and carbons saved.

I've got a lot to blog about soon

Well truth be told is that I have a lot right now but I have a test to study for so it will have to wait.

The finish is in sight

So I should be a little happier but I'm really drained I have zoomed through and updated my blog with just about everything I needed it to be updated with. I wish I had gotten to it earlier but the lack of internet connection at home really put a cramp in my style and before I knew it I was behind. But hey I'm back and I don't have that much work I want to get redone for review. They say those that make lists are more liekly to complete the tasks so here is the list:

Reprint: Cycle poster and extras for summer fest

Print additional stuff for badlands(ie pocket, booklet, poster and stickers)

Badlands process book, yeah that one fell apart last time so I might want to ge that together and I almost forgot I need to reprint the ad I made for my packaging project(and do some behance uploading)

And I need to print some CDs!!

All in all not a bad bit of work to get done, I think I should be able to knock it out in no time and the two booklets I'm getting printed at kinkos so it can be duplexed and thus save me time and thank god I found the templates that I wasn't able to find before to format this crap properly.

Journal 14 Inspiration

I had many inspirational moments, I would say the first was the books that Andrea brought in or told us to buy, I'm a sucker for reference and eye candy and when the two meet I loose the ability to not justify the cost of the books. But I think we also had some good moments with hallmark I like hearing the stories of different professionals how they made it.

But I would say I supplied myself with my most inspirational moment, I do a lot fo reading and researching on the sides and I was already familiar with the TED talks and then found out I can get them like pod casts and digest 1 or 2 a day and I love the diverse groups they bring in. I would also say my tolling around the internet and design blogs has paid off great as well I've found some companies that really interest me and I am starting to see a direction to all this madness.