Dynamically Built URL Tree

You can type any URL into this java applet and it will build a three dimensional tree based on the URL's pages and links.

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Pixel Roller (Part 2)

This link is a bit old, sorry. But I'm still oh, so fascinated by this whole project. Really great. Just really great.

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Flash Animated Map: Deaths in Iraq

Flash-animated map showing the deaths in Iraq over time. The project is updated often.

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TactaPad

This is a very, very interesting idea. Though I don't know how I'd feel about drawing with my fingers. Then again, they also said the computer mouse would never work b/c people would never be able to understand the idea of moving something with your hand on the table to see it move up on a screen.

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Le Building

GREAT, great French animated short called "Le Building".

Quicktime required.

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Crying While Eating

This brings down the average intelligent level of the Internet.

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Nike Ovolo

Phat kicks for women only.

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Off-grid House

With the rising cost in power, especially in California, I think more and more people might want to consider creating their own off-grid house. In other words, your house is fully functional without getting energy from the power grid.

In fact, there's a great blog at glenhunter.ca that describes how they went about transforming their beatufiul house into an off-grid home.

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Target Pill Bottle

Okay, fine. So this is an old link that I never posted. But it's a wonderful look at a design that was LONG overdue: The prescription pill bottle. More specifically, the Target pill bottle. The article gives some great insight to the design process.

From the site:

(1) Easy I.D.
The name of the drug is printed on the top of the bottle, so it’s visible if kept in a drawer.

(2) Code red.
The red color of the bottle is Target’s signature— and a universal symbol for caution.

(3) Information hierarchy.
Adler divided the label into primary and secondary positions, separated by a horizontal line. The most important information (drug name, dosage, intake instructions) is placed above the line, and less important data (quantity, expiration date, doctor’s name) is positioned below.

(4) Upside down to save paper.
Klaus Rosburg, a Brooklyn-based industrial designer hired by Target, came up with an upside-down version that stands on its cap, so that the label can be wrapped around the top. Every piece of paper in the package adds up to one eight-and-a-half-by-fourteen-inch perforated sheet, which eliminates waste and makes life easier for pharmacists.

(5) Green is for Grandma.
Adler and Rosburg developed a system of six colored rubber rings that attach to the neck of the bottle. Family members choose their own identifying shade, so medications in a shared bathroom will never get mixed up.

(6) An info card that’s hard to lose.
A card with more detailed information on a drug (common uses, side effects) is now tucked behind the label. A separate, expanded patient-education sheet, designed by Adler, comes with three holes so it can be saved in a binder for reference.

(7) Take “daily.”
Adler avoided using the word once on the label, since it means eleven in Spanish.

(8) Clear warnings.
Adler decided that many of the existing warning symbols stuck on pill bottles don’t make much sense—the sign for “take on an empty stomach,” for instance, looked like a gas tank to her—so together with graphic designer Milton Glaser, for whom she now works, she revamped the 25 most important.

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