If you suffer from allergies, like I do, you should be blessing your sneezing and snotting and not sneering at your symptoms because, those allergic reactions may well be an indicator that you probably don’t have brain cancer.
Continue reading → Blessing Your Sneezing: Gliomas and Allergies
When I was a child, I knew that we couldn’t always get every single toy on the shelf that we wanted. We weren’t the richest family on the block, nor were we the poorest — we did well for ourselves but we certainly weren’t swimming in pools of Evian. It therefore seemed only too sensible to me at a very young age that the best way to get something new was to take something that you already had and make something new out of it.
Continue reading → Reusing Trash of Today for a Better Tomorrow
We learn through our minds, and we take warnings through our senses. When you want to give quick, concise, information to the human eye with a cultured aesthetic, you use bright colors, and a relational retinal design to drive context that creates meaning. In the image below, you see the new food label packaging the FDA is proposing for all processed American foods. You are immediately confused looking at the information. Are those too many calories or just the right amount for what you’re about to put in your mouth? You have to calculate your own “DV” maximum percentage for “Sat Fat” and “Sodium.” You’re left to wonder what the “DV” for 14g of “Sugars” really means in the big picture.
Continue reading → Relational Retinal Design and the Aesthetics of Food Labels
I love the ongoing flaying of Malcolm Gladwell in the technical media — the majority of writers just can’t abide the thought that Gladwell is right that revolutions begin and end with people and pulses and not particles of thought whooshing in the social ether.
Continue reading → On Picking People and Pulses Over Particles in the Ether
I love it when SuperGenius minds go beyond the ordinary to re-imagine everyday objects and then make them better. Witness this fantastical, functional, and much better crosswalk signaler created in bendable, bright, LEDs! Why, it’s the absolute definition of an Urban Semiotic in a contextual city.
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