Sunday, July 20, 2008, a show opened at the Museum of Modern Art that looks to be both interesting and thorough about the challenges architects have faced selling the idea of prefabricated houses. The show encompasses a timeline, beginning in the 1800’s with factory-produced buildings. It then spans the next 200 years, showing how the [...]

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In a follow-up from an earlier post about Ian Usher, the Aussie who put his entire life for sale on ebay, well, the auction (and his illusions) are over. Ian’s life worth was estimated at $420,000 Australian dollars, but at the end of the auction on June 29, the highest bidder was $399,300.
Despite the monetary [...]

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It seems our web host had a fire at one of their server sites a coupla weeks ago. They didn’t lose anyone’s data, but have been moving websites around to different locations to try to get all of their clients back on track at the speed and reliability we all expect. I guess it’s always [...]

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“What if We Could All Be Friends?” by Jordan Perry (k thru 3rd grade group)
If you use Google as your homepage like I do, then you get to enjoy the different “special occasion” Google logos. Each year for the past 4 years, Google has had a competition for school age kids to design a Google [...]

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We’ve talked a lot in this blog about our office being in “The Combat Zone” of Raleigh. We even made our own map highlighting the area. Well, our friend Susan just tipped us to some interesting and visually humorous (despite the content) information design called SPOT CRIME which maps different types of scary things like [...]

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