As a Yankees fan, I should say that the fact that I’m posting this is not intended as schadenfreude, because I honestly have nothing against the Metropolitans. I only wanted to point out how devastatingly Sean Engelhardt’s well-executed information graphic paints a portrait of a disastrous season — I mean just look at those long swaths of red and the big names next to them. And that’s without even including visual data for their abysmal won/loss record. Though maybe that omission is for the best.

“…an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that any data that you create in (or import into) a product is your own. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to ‘liberate’ their products.”

Notepads shaped like an iPhone and pre-printed with an iPhone bezel design, ideal for sketching up app ideas. Pretty clever idea from my friends at Inventive Labs and The Jacky Winter Group in Australia.

Writing in Chicago Lawyer Magazine, two attorneys raise serious questions about the accuracy of the definitive book on the Black Sox scandal: “The lack of supporting information in [the author’s] meticulously indexed notes suggests that the book may not be much more than fiction, or, at the very most, a summary of inflated press accounts.” Though the book was published decades after the fact it is historically critical to the details of this scandal because it forever cemented the eight team members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox as cheaters, and inspired the 1988 movie “Eight Men Out.”

An unexpected look at the design of passageways in a somewhat random selection of science fiction movies from the past several decades. While entertaining, this smart, brief write-up only whets your appetite for a more in-depth look at the subject. Via Daring Fireball.

Opening today with a reception on 15 Sep, this exhibition promises “a 50-year retrospective of nearly 100 works created by [Glaser] for the College, where he has been on the faculty since 1960 and currently serves as acting chairman. The exhibition will include the original artwork for the iconic posters seen by generations of New Yorkers as part of SVA’s ongoing subway campaign, preparatory sketches that will be on public view for the first time, and rare printed pieces like the 1963 announcement for the course Glaser taught at SVA with the late art director Henry Wolf.”

Riffing on this blog post about service design by Jeff Howard, Chris Fahey posits that adding “delightful details” to a design at unexpected junctures can yield an emotional upside for users, and counter-act what Howard describes as human beings’ tendency to be “capricious” with regard to services where a high bar for quality has already been established.