Archive for the 'Design' Category

a cathedral to trains

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

The newly-refurbished London St Pancras International station that opened in November 2007 to provide Eurostar high speed service to Paris and Brussels is a block from my hotel so I decided to wander over there to check it out. There’s history in this building so history and architecture buffs should read this wonderfully rich overview [...]

comcast movie service, the disruptive models move beyond music

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Comcast’s Fancast site
Back to business. The CES conference, brought to us by the Consumer Electronics Association, has been taking place all week in Las Vegas. It’s a gadget geek fest, no doubt. New products are rolled out to great fanfare…or not. I heard that one hit attraction was the Nemo-branded Blackbird gaming machine from HP. [...]

songbird, a desktop media player mashed-up with the web

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Songbird hq, spot the DJ…..
I never know how I come across cool apps such as Songbird but this one may have arrived via Josh Spear. You may note that I’ve posted the Songbird link to the left - that’s right, the cute bird logo over there! If, like me, you enjoy scouring the web for [...]

first thursday with bangs and blurry

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

This just in from Briana - “For one night only come and check out our newest music video work, and some of our old favs you probably haven’t seen, this Thursday at the Low Brow Lounge on NW 11th and Hoyt. The cheapest and darkest place in the Pearl!”
First Thursday, December 6th, 2007
7pm to 9pm [...]

motocross bike, add sub woofers, entertain your ‘hood….

Friday, November 30th, 2007

“This one puts out 5,000 watts and cost about $4,000,” said Nick Ragbir, 18, tinkering with his two-wheeled sound system, with its powerful amplifier, two 15-inch bass woofers and four midrange speakers. It plays music from his iPod and is powered by car batteries mounted on a sturdy motocross bike. More.

a different way of looking at our world… celestial mechanics

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

24 hours of flights over North America as visualized by Aaron Koblin. Click to play
This motion piece is made up of a set of animations built with data from a 24-hour stretch of air travel over the United States a couple of years ago. It’s fascinating to watch how, from dawn to dusk, more and [...]

nemo design wins 3 rosey awards, yes portland, 3

Friday, November 9th, 2007

So here’s Nemo Design’s Steve Hoskins picking up his Rosey award and giving his thank you speech….hell yeah! Even funnier is that another Nemo employee was sitting next to one of the Rosie’s people who turned to her and said “Nemo’s not here tonight and some skater dude just went up and stole their award [...]

nemo design halloween party photos…

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

As promised more from the Nemo bash…Trevor’s Flickr set captures all the photos that are fit to print…..