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Free Mac OS X Icons for Developers

I'm building a little one-off Mac OS X application for uploading photos to my website, and needed to add a few icons to it. Here are a few very high-quality resources I've found. There are actually some really nice, free icons out there for Mac de...

Sony Rolly' Pretty Neat

One thing I’ve got to give Sony is that they almost always know their stuff when it comes to innovative hardware design. Sure, the occasional high ticket item may look more like a George Foreman grill than the harbinger of high definition gaming, ...

Jan 12, 2007
Design

A periodic table of visualization

I ran across this a couple days ago, and have been trying to find time to blog it ever since. It’s an interactive ‘periodic table’ of visualization tools and techniques, chunked into data, information, concept, strategy, metaphor and compound cate...

Oct 20, 2006
Design

Greek Toilets

From Greek Island Notes: For some incomprehensible reason, sewer pipes in Greece are of such small calibre that toilet paper invariably clogs them up causing a calamitous backup of sewage. So, instead of being dropped into the pan, used toilet pap...

Oct 12, 2006
Design

Visualizing Air Traffic Data

Aaron Koblin, who does…something or another with Design and Media Arts at UCLA, has published a series of movies and pictures that visualize the state of air traffic across the United States.

Oct 10, 2006
Design

Create color palettes from your photos

I just ran across a cool web application that generates a two color palettes (one “dull” and one “vibrant”) from any photo that you submit to it. Seems like it could be quite handy. (via etc.)