One of our own

DevCom's Vee Mahoney is participating in the SF Open Studios this weekend:

November 3-4, 2007
11 am - 6 pm

Her work is on display in her studio in Building 116 at the Hunters Point Shipyard.

Way to go, Vee!

40% of us feel fine. 1,217 feel weird.

Pam Pfiffner at Creative Pro blogs about her design epiphany while visiting Adobe , where she gets synchronistically clued into a site called weefeelfine.org. Maybe it's the introspection of fall, but I feel compelled to look at the wriggling data points about feelings, or at least poke around to see all the ways the designer is presenting the data.

This beguiling site is “an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.” The site searches the blogosphere for instances of the words “I feel” or “I am feeling” and tracks the emotion attached to that phrase. The information is saved into a database that parses such information as location, age, and gender. Through a visual interface, site visitors can explore what people are feeling at any moment all over the world. Click on a dot representing a blog post and the “emotional” words in that blog posting appear. For example: “I feel like I don’t know how to have fun anymore.” Click those words and you’ll be taken to that person’s blog for more context.

Paul Rand said…

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I’m not familiar with The One Club, but I am familiar with Paul Rand. If you’re not familiar with Paul Rand (and you should be), you can read about him at Wikipedia.

If you’d rather see and hear about Paul Rand, though, you can watch this video created for Paul Rand’s induction into The One Club Hall of Fame.

“The Leopard, she is coming…”

Yes, that is my attempt at bad movie dialogue (à la The Night of the Iguana). But, hopefully you were able to read past the bad screenwriting and realize that it’s Mac OS X Leopard that is coming—on October 26th!

If you’ve already familiarized yourself with Leopard’s 300+ new features and gone through the guided tour, you can check out “Getting your Mac ready for OS X 10.5” at Macworld.com.

Actually, maybe you should make sure your Mac can handle the upgrade.

(The Scholar’s Workstation has Leopard available for pre-order. I’ve already got mine all lined up!)

Freelancin’ (mistakes)

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My first steps down this whole graphic design-type road were a string of desktop publishing-type jobs supplemented by freelance work. Later, I worked as a production artist-type at Huge Financial Institution of America (a pseudonym) and freelanced. Now, I devote my work week to the UC and when I’m at home—no freelance.

Why not? 1. I don’t want to. 2. I don’t have to. 3. You can’t make me.

I was never entirely happy performing freelance work. I just didn’t have the temperament for it. My Top 5 Biggest Freelance Mistakes from freelancefolder.com pretty much sums up why 4. I suck as a freelancer.

Reminder: Helvetica this weekend at YBCA

More information:
• This weekend's showings
• Helvetica web site
• Clips and trailers
• AIGA interview with director Gary Hustwit
• Previous DA post

Free MacWorld exhibit passes until October 5th

Free Exhibit Hall passes to MacWorld Conference and Expo are available until this Friday (10/05). Use code 08-E-VF01.

Register today!

Wedding photos

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No, not from my wedding. Or, for that matter, anyone that I know. Anyway, it’s not the wedding that’s the matter of interest, it’s the photos. Actually, it’s the camera—a barely-in-the-wild High-ISO Nikon D3.

If you want to see some unretouched snaps from the nigh-latest in pro digital camera gear, head over to “Nikon D3 Test Drive.”

*sniff* Unretouched high-ISO digital photos always make me cry.