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A couple of clips from the World of Color show at Disneyland’s California Adventure Park. The Imagineering group is done amazing things with this show and I highly recommend it. Some background on the making of it.

What?! Srsly…

seoulbrother:

“Helps”

theatlantic:

respecthesea:

Seal helps turtle to get in the water!

Animal GIFs and Friday afternoons: A match made in heaven.

(Source: pick-it-up-and-smell-it)

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ᔥ Swiss-Miss (via Les Rencontres d’Arles - Rencontres d’Arles: expositions, stages photo /exhibitions, photo workshops.)

Where have all the grown ups gone

Something happened recently and I didn’t realize it until it was done: people got younger. I’m talking about the people I read, and read about. The people I see in magazines, movies, and on tv. The people who I work for. The people I respect and admire.

Now, of course people aren’t really getting younger - I’m getting older. More specifically, I GOT older, while I was busy going on about the goings-on of life. And then, at some point I stopped, looked up, and realized that there were a lot of folks who were younger than me out there - and a lot of the were doing some pretty interesting stuff and acting like grown ups, not foolish kids.

This is, of course a great thing for us all, but it leaves me wondering a bit about where all the people who were older than me before this.

What makes for a great client/agency relationship? →

I just posted My take on client’s and design studios working together at the Design Commission blog.

Google Chrome and Fonts

So, I’m not sure if they’ve changed the fonts AND the font-rendering technology, or if it’s just one, but something in Gmail started to look awful this week. 

A little digging and I saw that it was rendering Arial as the primary font. Now, regardless of whether or not this is something new, it’s not right. A little help from the Chrome extension, Stylish and the problem is partly solved.

Here’s the before with Arial:  

Here’s the after with Helvetica:  

Here’s an animation of the change:  

It’s a subtle change, but when you look at the UI for as much time as I do I really matters.

My Sketchnotes from Ted Leonhardt’s talk at Seattle Creative Mornings

23-and-a-half Hours

Nother great “sketchnote” video – this time on the transformative power of exercise.

Chance Favors the Connected Mind

I’ve watched Steven Johnson’s “Where Good Ideas Come From” video twice now and I am just blown away by it. The content of the video short – done entirely on a whiteboard – is, of course insightful and well written, but the sketching he does is just wonderful. And, the reveal at the end is brilliant.

My Sketchnotes from Scott Berkun’s Seattle Creative Mornings Talk.