human powered vehicles...
29 January 2010
...are awesome. I use one everyday. And they make even more sense in the third world as a sustainable solution to transport.
That's a nice lookin' cargo bike. Very cool!
World Bike is helping get intelligently designed solutions to people that need it. Check it out
in praise of sugo
26 January 2010
Right now I'm helping the Friends of Fort Liberte, the non-profit I work with in Haiti, rebrand its identity. I started with an icon of the town, the entry arch, and abstracted it into a logo that hopefully will translate equally well into web, print, and apparel. Below is the second draft:
There's been positive feedback on Facebook, and lots of people seemed to like the font I used so I thought I'd put some info about it here. It's called "Sugo" and it's available for free at dafont.com. Dafont has been the best typeface resource I've been able to find on the interwebs. Most of the stuff uploaded there is terrible, but there are many diamonds in the rough. I'd recommend to anyone working on graphics to look through their catalog- and you can't beat the price!
Enjoy.
the golden ratio
25 January 2010
...discovered at quantum level!
"Here the tension comes from the interaction between spins causing them to magnetically resonate. For these interactions we found a series (scale) of resonant notes: The first two notes show a perfect relationship with each other. Their frequencies (pitch) are in the ratio of 1.618…, which is the golden ratio famous from art and architecture." Radu Coldea is convinced that this is no coincidence. "It reflects a beautiful property of the quantum system -- a hidden symmetry."
Or not so hidden...
(via ISO50)
