When you’re all bleary eyed and wondering what the difference between a capuccino is and latté is (just don’t do it in Europe, they will laugh you out of the café) – is it steamed milk or steamed foam, here’s a handy dandy illustrated guide … this is a great showcase of what great design […]

Cheesy headlines aside, haven’t you ever wanted to own a raygun? Or at least one that looks and feels like it was a close to a real one as possible? Well, the good folks that helped bring The Lord of the Rings and its slate of collectibles to life have created a new division down […]

Go to Imagini. Click on the photo/illustration that answers the question they are asking … 5 minutes later, you have an answer and a chance to share your results.

Nintendo Power magazine, the house organ of Nintendo (please make your own joke here) will now be published by FUTURE out of SF. Future Publishing, not exactly the Conde Nast of publishing when it comes to budgets, is not likely to offer many relocation benefits to the current staff … and not to be rude […]

The Pixelmator creators have gotten a lot of press in their attempt to knock a few pegs from the Adobe Photoshop Regime and yes, the app looks fine and has lots of cool looking Apple Quartz effects and transparencies but while they may have spent hundreds of hours writing code and prettifying Pixelmator, they either […]

This company was just reviewed in the WSJ and from checking out their site, there are some odd but cool interior design choices there for different furniture. Bike Furniture has a few really cool designs for chairs up for sale on their web site that are very different.  So if you know a hardcore bike […]

BLADE RUNNER is one of the greatest films ever made. It’s not to everyone’s taste but it’s what films should be – idiosyncratic and a personal vision from a director. Of course, it involves a great screenplay, great acting and engaging cinematography but ultimately, it’s the director’s imprint that makes it a classic. While nearly […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg] This video blew me away. Can you imagine Mac users getting this resident on their Powerbooks? All I can say is, “Gimme!”  Seamless reality distortion is now a reality! “Seam Carving For Content Aware Image Resizing”…It may be so cool from a personal usage standpoint but it is downright disturbing to know that some […]

Whoa.  Amazing what just 20 years will do for technological developments.  That big hunking looking thing is a 1 GB disk drive for an old IBM mainframe computer.  The little chiclet is a 1 GB sandisk card.  Wow.

It is not always easy to find a cool business card design. Most are fairly pedestrian but on occasion you may obtain one that makes you say, “Cool!”. Here is a link to a site that has captured many examples of very cool business card designs. Here are a few to whet your appetite: Scratch […]