Blogged By Björn: Archive

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Oct 29th

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Green Bag

Ben Kraal has relayed comments by Infinity Designs Glenn Bevan regarding the “Green Bag”. It’s a topic i am very interested in and have been arguing for some time. Users tend to forget or neglect to carry Green Bags and purchase replacements when prompted at the counter, believing that they are making an environmentally responsible choice. The Green Bags slowly amass well...

Oct 28th

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Oct 28th

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Oct 23rd

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Oct 23rd

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FAIRspot Redesign →

FAIRspot gets NOTCOT.org styling.

Oct 23rd

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Oct 23rd

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Oct 22nd

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Creative Review Blog Redesign →

I am somewhat unconvinced.

Oct 22nd

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Firefox Minefield →

Trunk build of Firefox (Minefield). ars technica discuss the details of what Mozilla are calling TraceMonkey, a javascript engine to rival chromes V8.

Oct 22nd

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Eco Zoo →

I am absolutely in love with this site by japanese designer Masayuki Kido. Be sure not to miss the flip books.

Oct 22nd

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Oct 20th

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Oct 19th

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Muxtape Relaunch

It appears Muxtape will return, but not as we knew it. Justin Ouellette has explained the history of the project and defined its new direction which will now only supports musicians looking for a means to share music online. It is already being used by Jacob Lodwicks Normative, for every body else there is Opentape.

Oct 19th

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MacBook Video →

Catch a small glimpse of the unibody in production. From aluminium block to extrusion, milling and laser-cutting/etching. Watch for the waste aluminium being flung from the milling process.

Oct 16th

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Canvas Magazine →

“Canvas Magazine is the love child of a fashion fanatic and her design savvy boyfriend. Straight out of Le’Brisbane, Canvas covets high-fashion and profiles art practioners and well, beautiful things.” - threethousand.com.au

Oct 15th

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Oct 14th

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The Russians?

It seems apt that never having seen film burn during a screening, that i should witness this so often emulated effect while enjoying Burn After Reading. Audience members turned to each other as the lights came up and asked “Is that intentional?”. We were informed there had been a surge and the film would recommence shortly. Remarkably the films pace was unaffected, it remained engaging...

Oct 14th

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A Big Green Apple

I find myself simultaneously in love and infuriated by Apple products. When Steve jobs returned to apple in 1996 he was asked how he would solve the company’s problems, to which he answered design. This is evident in the company’s attitudes and I understand they are fighting for valuable market share. However, it shows such little appreciation for the costumer to offer the best product on the...

Oct 14th

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“Apologies - our website is struggling to cope with the unprecedented demand for...”

– openoffice.org

Oct 13th

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Oct 12th

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Fahrenheit

I am fascinated by the attitudes surrounding video games when the similarity with film as a story telling medium are so evident. While I don’t believe GTA4 is a good example of effective story telling, it does illustrate an important point regarding the comparative scale of the film and video game industries. During the US summer season Iron Man, which cost an estimated 140 million to produce, was...

Oct 12th

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Oct 11th

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Oct 10th

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Oct 10th

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X-System by Alexander Lotersztain →

Alex and I share the same studio space, so I found it a little unusual asking him how I would go about getting an X-System of my own. Of all his work, this is my absolute favourite which is partly due the the care Planex have taken to have it produced.

Oct 10th

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