Excellent text from a talk given by Ben Terret on design and sustainability. “All these climate change issues look like design problems to me.” Thanks to Ian Van Mater.

Companion site for the upcoming national design conference. I’ll be attending and speaking.

“These tee-shirts are printed with every day items and accessories, the way they’re worn.” Series includes a Walkman, roller skates, Ray-Ban shades and a holster and gun. Terrific.

New NPR show aimed at ‘the kids.’

Beautiful design portfolio. I think it’s a design portfolio, anyway.

“Lets you share iCal calendars with family and coworkers on a local area network without a dedicated server and with full read/write access.” Should’ve been built into iCal, but oh well I’m glad it’s available through a third party at least.

Flickr collection of closing frames from classic movies. Beautiful typography. Thanks to Nima.

Toggle background grids on and off, based on an idea by Jon Hicks.

Terrific case for “intercapping,” or the practice of using a capital letter in the middle of a word. “Intercapping is beginning to fall out of favor at the precise moment when it might actually prove useful.”

Create quick sketches in animated, narrate-able form and embed them in your blog to help explain ideas.