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.
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…
“Helps”
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)
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.
I just posted My take on client’s and design studios working together at the Design Commission blog.
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
Nother great “sketchnote” video – this time on the transformative power of exercise.
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.