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The lost culture of New Island is 43,500 years old (above).
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work. Buy the book or PDF.
The doormat, the jerk and the lizard brain.
Livid Instruments’ new Builder is a line of DIY parts that make it easy [...]

The artwork of Chiharu Shiota (above).
The other extreme: low-alcohol beers.
Deep below New York City’s bustling streets lies a dangerous world inhabited by “sandhogs.”
The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach.
How Robber Barons hijacked the “Victorian Internet”
Robert Henke talks with Rashad Becker about audio mastering.
Apple’s Mistake: An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose [...]

A.V. Club interviews John Crowley on the occassion of the 25th-anniversary of Little Big (above)

We are all mutants say scientists.
Books to read now, from Seed magazine.
Forget design thinking and try hybrid thinking.
Human Centered Design Toolkit from IDEO.
Spirograph, spirographs, spirography.
Get your Philip K. Dick collection boxed set from The Library of America and save $30.
Researchers have [...]

Sp #1 (above): soot on plexiglass by Daniel Adam Turner
We love (and wish we could afford) Aether’s jackets.
Design Ignites Change promotes and encourages talented high school and college students across the country to use design thinking and innovation to create messages for, and solutions to, pressing social problems.
Complete Yale courses now on iTunes U.
Eros, a [...]

The State: The Complete Series (above) is finally available on DVD (affiliate link).
Consumers get paid to reduce their emissions.
The fifth edition of The Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt is now available.
Michael Bay as Generative Art: Explosion Action Painting with oF.
An essay against Situationism.
Open Atrium is a customizable, open-source team portal.
Music Made from [...]

Hayo Miyazaki’s Ponyo (above), a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Little Mermaid.’ (video)
Futurespeak: Shane Hope’s keywords defined.
Gary Hamel on managing Generation Y.
The evidence is growing that privately owned, consumer-driven, small-scale, geographically distributed renewables could deliver a 100% green-energy future faster and cheaper than big power projects alone.
The Sears Tower is going [...]

Link love 2009-04-13

by Jeffrey Melton on April 13, 2009

Design Business Review (above) is a print-on-demand publication that will help you learn more about the business of creativity.
Dork Yearbook features pictures from yesteryear of geeks and the computers they love.

The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) is a global community of people working at the intersection of communication design and the built environment.
Frog Design [...]

DIY camera kit (above) for the crafty geek in all of us.
Herman Miller Replaces the Sample Catalogue With a Smart Web Site; someday we’ll be able to afford such brilliance.
He Charted the Moon Before Galileo, But You’ve Probably Never Heard of Him.
Jenny Holzer’s Protect Protect Show.
The Unreleased Recordings by Hank Williams.
Wrong Tomorrow is a database [...]

Be a Music Geek Ninja with Electronic Music Programming in Pd. We heart Pd, because it’s open source—though perpetually on our To Learn list.
Wacom Intros New DJ Touch-Sensitive Nextbeat Consoles: looks sweet.
Tea Cup Stool: want.
Computer security expert Bruce Schneier gives his vision of the challenges facing society because of technology.
Old Growth Media And The Future [...]