Bamboo Bikes
Jan 07, 2010
Bamboo Bike Studio in Brooklyn, N.Y. is helping people to build their own bikes (multi-gear, single-gear and fixies) from locally harvested bamboo.
Airline Fail
Jan 07, 2010
Nice article from Tyler Thompson about how the airline boarding pass. A follow up to Dustin Curtis’ article about American Airline’s website.
Mike Sabo
Dec 12, 2009
As young kids our “uncle” Sabo first introduced us to comedy by bringing over toys and then telling us they were for his local orphanage. By the time I was a young aspiring designer, I would spend hours working with Sabo on his various soap identities, brands and packaging and learning about the personal care business in between his rants about politics and the Clintons. We will greatly miss uncle Sabo and infamous laugh.
GBoard on Huff Post
Dec 05, 2009
The GBoard Launched yesterday, garnering some good tech stocking-stuffer reviews, including CNET, Engadget, Tech crunch, PC mag, and Huffington Post.
PUSH created the branding, icons, and supporting website for the launch of the Gboard, a new keyboard designed for Gmail users. Christina Warren of Mashable raves “Looking for the perfect, unique gift for the Gmail addict this holiday season? Look no further than the Gboard…” Just in time for the holiday season. Pick one up–or three, at gboard.com.
Spike Jonze Lost Film
Nov 16, 2009
Part 1 of 2 – This film by Spike Jonze shows an intimate look at Al Gore and his family during the former Vice President’s 2000 Presidential campaign.
Movember
Nov 01, 2009
Movember is the month given to November where men start clean shaven and commit to growing a Moustache to raise funds and awareness for men’s cancers – specifically prostate and testicular cancer. While growing a Mo is left to the guys, Mo Sistas (women who support their guys) form an important part of Movember by recruiting Mo Bros, helping to raise funds and attending the highly anticipated Gala Partés.
50 Years of Space
Oct 17, 2009
The beautiful infographic “50 Years of Space Exploration” [nationalgeographic.com] shows exactly the content denoted in its title. A delimited line on the bottom shows the relative distances in interstellar space, and the current positions of our most distant spacecrafts, such as the Voyager 1 and Pioneer 10. The most persuasive part is the nice visual accumulation of fly paths of historic space missions, which clearly shows our past interest in Mars, the moon, the sun and Venus, and the relatively few visits to asteroids, comets and other, more distant, planets.
The image is also available in a more user-friendly and downloadable format on Flickr.
Coco Caroline
Oct 09, 2009
Coco Caroline Raykovich opted out of the Matrix and into the real world yesterday, October 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM. She weighed in at 8lbs, 13oz.
Tennisfire
Sep 30, 2009
Tennisfire is an online community focused on the tennis enthusiast. One of the fastest growing sports, tennis has seen a rebirth with a new generation of exciting players like the Williams sisters, Rodick, Nadal, and of course Federer who have brought more young people to the game than ever before. Tennisfire fills the gaps by connecting coaches, student, groups and players.
Inventing LA
Sep 29, 2009
There is a great new documentary on KCET called Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times, a documentary by Emmy-winning filmmaker Peter Jones, tells the story of the Los Angeles Times and the city’s most powerful family. For four generations, the Chandlers wielded unique influence through their newspaper. In their pursuit of personal agendas and civic ideals, they built the city of the future, but also exposed the dark side of the American dream.
The fim interviews many local historians and scholars including CalARTS and Art Center College of Design MDP thesis advisor Norman Klein.
The National Parks
Sep 29, 2009
THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan.
I was amazed by the awesomeness of this documentary series. Having lived and worked on a National Park one summer, I could identify with the passion of the people involved and the importance what was created for us.
Perfect Pitch
Sep 28, 2009
Demo or die, as they say. Perfect Pitch – The Art of Selling Ideas and Winning New Business by John Steel. This book is a must read for people who regularly create pitches for business of any kind. As someone who’s created many presentations, it’s refreshing to read someone who really understands both technical and psychological perspectives of the pitch.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra.