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The Shape of Design

I alluded to a design theory about two years ago. Rather than allowing it to collect more cerebral dust as my take on what’s important to design becomes aged with each passing day, I thought I’d share parts of it now.
In truth, it’s more of a construct than a theory, and it’s not at [...]

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Merry Christmas 2009

Mike & Cole Schindler
Christmas Camel 2009
Mixed Media

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Visual Affect in 50 milliseconds

Over at A List Apart, Patrick Lynch nicely summarizes the essence of one of my favorite books by Don Norman, Emotional Design and applies it to neuro-activity within our brain.
In psychology, emotional reactions to stimuli are called affective responses. Affective responses happen very fast, and are governed in an automatic, unconscious way by the lower [...]

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19 June 2009 @ 7pm

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Serving Brain Food Since 1998

As the new tagline says, this site has been serving content since 1998. I don’t know the exact birthday because much of it existed as static content served by the ISP I was with at the time. You could say I was one of the original bloggers. This was long before tools [...]

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Google and the Iceberg Principle of Design

A lot has already been said about Douglas Bowman’s decision to leave Google. From what I understand, he was the company’s first visual designer. I don’t know the man, but I think we can take his perspective, at least, at face value.
In his goodbye post, he offers a glimpse of the design culture [...]

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Right After You Stage Dive Into a Pit Filled with Broken Glass and Half-eaten Barbituates

Go get some car insurance. That’s right. Tell them Iggy Pop sent you.

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Two Turtle Doves

Mike Schindler
Two Turtle Doves 2008
Mixed Media / Holiday Card

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Is That the Sound of Liberation or a Shoe Whizzing by Your Face?

I haven’t delved too much into this story, but I can imagine that the sentiment expressed in this BBC piece concerning the infamous shoe torpedo launched at Bush has now largely been echoed by conservative pundits.
Many of Mr Bush’s supporters will see it as a mean-spirited gesture against a man whose policies liberated the country [...]

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Wiping the Politics Off My Sleave

Four years ago I gathered up my thoughts on the way that election turned out.

[...] I think instead of sulking in this cataclysmic let-down, I’ll simply gather myself up and plan for the little bits of goodness that will surely come from living my life—spending time with my wife and our soon-to-be child.
Because the onus [...]

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Baby Chloe

Yesterday, at 5:21pm, our daughter Chloe Annabel was born. She weighs seven pounds and thirteen ounces. When she came out, she immediately spoke to us with a soft, squeaky cry. It was love at first chirp.
Her three and a half year old brother, Cole, excited to see her for the first time, kept [...]

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