{"id":30,"date":"2007-11-12T20:56:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/?p=30"},"modified":"2007-11-12T20:56:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:56:36","slug":"design-junkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/12\/design-junkie\/","title":{"rendered":"Design junkie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps two people know this about me but I am a design junkie. Notcot.org<\/a> is my favorite blog of all time. Recently I’ve even contributed a few posts (#7106<\/a>, #6974<\/a>). I’m not sure what it is about design that I like so much. There is always that form\/function distinction but I don’t think that is exactly what attracts me. It is more along the lines of personal engineering: with the right stuff you can do different things. You have the right tools and you can build a house (or a website); you have a spiffy outfit and you can get into an exclusive club; you have the right ideas and you can change the course of humanity.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s some links (or slingks as Apartment Therapy<\/a> calls them) to people with good ideas:<\/p>\n

Check out the art galleries<\/a> here in NYC with this handy printable list of the best galleries.<\/p>\n

Running from Camera<\/a>: Exactly what the title says and yet surprisingly entertaining. (via It’s Nice That<\/a>)
\nHi, My name is Joseph. I work in a cupcake.<\/a>: Again self-explanatory. (swissmiss<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Wordcount<\/a>: a visual representation of how often English words are used. ‘Pope’ is one behind ‘Logic’ and four ahead of ‘Discourse’. I couldn’t make this up if I tried. (via DamnIWishI’dThoughtofThat<\/a> via Spoonbuzz<\/a>) Surprisingly I found this site through my lesser infatuation with marketing (as compared to design) since it is more a work of art\/design. However if you consider Search Engine Optimization choosing words lower on the list will inherently make your site more unique and hence searchable. I think I got lucky by tagging ‘relativity’<\/a> (#15559) before ‘biology’ (#6746) or ‘physics’ (#4543) and definitely before ‘philosophy’ (#2821).<\/p>\n

Brevity is possibly wit: Overheard in NY<\/a> – One Sentence<\/a><\/p>\n

Witty and thankfully not brief comic\/graphic novel (the only one I have ever liked, so this is high praise): Platinum Grit<\/a> – and by the same people of wit (though not a comic): Poke the Bunny<\/a>. You really should.
\nWho Killed Bambi?<\/a> Art blog finding all those out there pushing the bounds of death and life.<\/p>\n

Japan is good for so many things: Trends in Japan<\/a> is full of products and ideas. Currently #1 on my wishlist for ridiculous things (which is my normal wishlist btw) is a Homestar Pro<\/a> (no not that homestar<\/a>) PERSONAL PLANETARIUM. I’m from NY. I have to drive like 4 hours to see stars otherwise.<\/p>\n

On the topic of Japan Ping Mag<\/a> is worth a look. It’s a Tokyo based design magazine.<\/p>\n

And because you should always end with a bang, the Superest<\/a> is my new favorite fun blog. It’s superhero competition with ‘The overprotective parent’ being vanquished by ‘Doug the Slacker Next Door’ who was vanquished by ‘The Charismatic Recruiter’, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps two people know this about me but I am a design junkie. Notcot.org is my favorite blog of all time. Recently I’ve even contributed a few posts (#7106, #6974). I’m not sure what it is about design that I like so much. There is always that form\/function distinction but I don’t think that is exactly what attracts me. It is more along the lines of personal engineering: with the right stuff you can do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,10,14,18,21,35],"tags":[239,49,242,248,252,92,257,262,280],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-fun","category-internet","category-marketing","category-motivation","category-seo","tag-art","tag-blog","tag-design","tag-fun","tag-internet","tag-links","tag-marketing","tag-motivation","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}