December 2011
1 post
The End
I’m no longer updating this tumblr. However, I’ve started a new one, containing all sorts of black and white loveliness, at Hammer & Code. Alternatively, you can visit my regular blog at danielgray.com. Or just stick around and wade through the Binky archive.
June 2011
1 post
March 2010
8 posts
Binky no more
This blog is all wrapped up and finished with. However, if you point your tumblr/rss reader/eyes at www.swisscheeseandbullets.com, you’ll find lots more designular blogular loveliness.
I’m going to keep re-posting this message until it’s had the desired effect.
Go on now, scoot.
Hello, goodbye
Well it’s been a good few years, but alas Binky the doormat is no more.
Fear not though, handsome reader, I’m not leaving the world of bloggery just yet. I just needed to press the restart button and start again, that’s all. There’s a new, cleaner (and slightly emptier) site in town: Swiss Cheese and Bullets.
For you modern subscriber people, you’ll have to resubscribe to a new site I’m...
“3D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension.”
– Roger Ebert
February 2010
99 posts
“A little over a year ago, just down the block from us, Solomon Smith Barney...”
– Sam Biederman on representations of office culture in pop culture. Good stuff.
The "i-Pod": it'll never last
Khoi found this fascinating little gem from the depths of the Internet: the Macrumors forum on the day that the iPod was unleashed on the world. What’s interesting is the amount of negative feeling and general disappointment. It seems like a lot of people were holding out for a new Newton, but were incredibly cautious following the failure of the Cube.
And remember this is October 2001, so...
“Having an end makes things better. Movies end. Symphonies have a final note....”
– Frank Chimero on the design rationale behind Thinking for a Living.
“We took our website and turned it sideways. Why? Well, the site is for reading...”
– Well that makes sense. Thinking for a Living: my new favourite website.
“In 1631 Robert Baker, the King’s Printer, produced a Bible with the little word...”
– Type, who host some damn fine-looking typographic walking tours.
Some thoughts on digital publishing
Having just read Adrian Shaughnessy’s Design Week article on electronic publishing (as well as all the other iPad-centric artciles that have been knocking around the last couple of weeks), I’m left with some niggling concerns about where this is all headed, especially as the publishing industry continues to stick to the incredibly flawed and simplistic notion that the iPod/iTunes model will...