Monthly Archives: December 2008

file under: libraries in which i’d live, luckenwalde

The old train station in Luckenwalde, Germany, about an hour away from Berlin, has been converted into a public library. It is beautiful. Their website is even pretty nice. I can’t make any claims about how it functions as a library but it is sure easy on my eyes.

The furniture [...]

a deliberately difficult, delightful design

The website for Clyde Common in Portland contains the most appropriate use of mystery meat navigation I’ve ever seen.
 
Generally, not making links (and their destinations) completely apparent is bad form, but this site intentionally obfuscates things to engage the user. Go to the site and mouse over the sections. You’ll be rewarded [...]

whiteboard as social hardware

“Phillip is Looking for His Friends” by thehubatwts

my new job is great and i want to tell you about it

In late October I wrote a semi-cryptic Facebook status update telling people that I gave notice at my job. Then a few weeks later a few people emailed me when they saw my job at the NPPL listed on the PNLA Jobs website. Sorry that I haven’t been able to say anything until [...]

beautiful > ugly

Consider pouring yourself a coffee or tea and taking a few minutes to walk around your library and look at the signs you see. Where do they fall on this graph?

Perhaps replace “friendly/mean” with “helpful/unhelpful” too. How many of your signs fall into the desirable quadrant I?
Ready for the [...]

walking paper scraps: pretty in your browser edition

→ Host your own muxtape style MP3 player with OpenTape. This is a .12 release, bit it works for the most part. I made walking paper music in about as much time as it took to upload three mp3s.

→ Make Google Reader easier on your eye with Helvetireader, a userscript for any browser [...]

urban decay desktop images

Like you, I spend plenty of time in front of my computer screen. Most of the time I can’t stand to have anything besides a black or dark grey desktop but recently I’ve wanted a tiny bit more to look at. Nothing out on the web really struck my fancy so I just [...]

the alphabet in books

Could make for an interesting library display.
[via]