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Things Organized Neatly -> Tumblr

jhsindesign — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:05:53 +0000

This is a fun Tumblr blog appropriately named ‘Things Organized Neatly’, perfect for fellow OCD’ers out there who obsess over clean lines and clarity of arrangement, balance and relationship. On a good day my desk, coffee table and the floor of my closet resemble some of these finely tuned arrangements of stuff. Have a look.

Visit -> thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/

Circuitbreaks -> 3 Year Anniversary

jhsindesign — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:35:59 +0000

Circuitbreaks, my fun little ongoing side project, has reached a pretty significant milestone of three years this month. Three years of weekly posting, and trying to document all of the design/art/tech happenings from around the world that I’ve found to be interesting, inspiring and amazing. I’m pretty proud to have kept it going. I’m also really amazed that there are so many people that come to visit the site from so many different places. Above is a pretty typical one month snapshot of where the traffic comes from, the darkest shade = highest traffic. I want to thank everyone for stopping by to check out my posts. I look forward to blogging into 2012. Peace + Love to you all in the New Year!

iPhone 4s -> Photos

jhsindesign — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:13:45 +0000

Since I traded in the old iPhone 3gs for the new iPhone 4s, my photo taking productivity has increased significantly. That’s the good thing. The bad thing is that my photo taking productivity has increased significantly and I haven’t touched my Canon 7D in weeks! I’ve found that the new 8MP camera and optics have really made this device less of a mobile phone, and more of a handy mobile camera, for me. I wonder when we’ll stop calling them ‘mobile pics’ all together? You can check out many, many more of my 4s pics on my Tumblr blog via the link below.

Visit -> http://jhsindesign.tumblr.com/

Shuffler.FM -> iPad App

jhsindesign — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:24:40 +0000

Some are calling the Shuffler.FM iPad app the “Flipboard of music discovery”. It automagically aggregates music content from thousands of tastemakers, music blogs, sites and magazines creating one big fat, music channel of love …something like that. Just when I was just starting to really get into Spotify. On to the next thing I suppose.

Get App -> http://itunes.apple.com/app/shuffler.fm

Visit -> http://shuffler.fm/

Happy Halloween -> iPhone Pics/Tumblr

jhsindesign — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:20:02 +0000

Recently, I’ve been having a lot of fun posting to my ‘Chris Kalani’ themed Tumblr blog (Chris Kalani is the designer and creator of yayeveryday.com). For the most part I use the blog to post daily pics from my iPhone or some of my shots from my Canon 7D. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, so as one might guess, my iPhone pics have been a little on the creepy side of the subject matter spectrum lately. I figured it would be fun and appropriate to share some of them, Happy Halloween!

Visit -> http://jhsindesign.tumblr.com/

Todd Slater -> Rushmore Print + Baubauhaus.com

jhsindesign — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:36:17 +0000

A number of interesting discoveries came from my recent discovery of this ‘Rushmore’ print by illustrator Todd Slater. First off, the print itself, I’m a huge fan of Bill Murray and the movie Rushmore and poster prints. Win + Win! Unfortunately it’s sold out on Todd Slater’s site. Hopefully he’ll print up some more for us all soon. The next big discovery was the ‘beta’ version of illustration/art and design blog www.baubauhaus.com. It’s well designed, full of inspirational work and enhanced by ‘infinite scroll’, which I’m a big fan of for art/photo browsing. I first became a fan of that functionality when I came across it on http://www.flickriver.com. Good stuff, all around.

Visit -> http://www.toddslater.net/

Visit -> http://www.baubauhaus.com

iPhone 3Gs Photos -> Jhsindesign Posterous

jhsindesign — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:24:01 +0000

A couple months ago I started up a ‘posterous’ blog and have been using it as an easy mobile upload platform for all my iPhone photos. I’m snapping daily and I’m often surprised at the image quality I’m getting from my iPhone, depending on the light and my ability to keep my hand steady (or not steady) the end result can be pretty impressive for a 3 megapixel camera. Above are a few of my favorite shots from the last few weeks. You can a lot more of my iPhone pics via the links below.

Visit -> http://jhsindesign.posterous.com/

Visit -> http://www.flickr.com/

The Daily Aphorism -> The School of Life

jhsindesign — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:53:33 +0000

The above is today’s daily aphorism from thedailyaphorism.com. Enabled by St.Lukes and the School of Life, this daily aphorism destination is simple and well designed. You can create your own aphorisms as well as print out your favorites from their collection. Pretty fun, I could see this experience to twitter and mobile texts as well.

Visit -> http://www.thedailyaphorism.com/

Visit -> http://www.theschooloflife.com/

Visit -> http://sumac.uk.com/

Dell’s Motherboard.tv -> Beta Version

jhsindesign — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:05:06 +0000

Along the same vein as other group/community blogs (like http://spacecollective.org/ below) this grid-based designed blog ‘Motherboard’ designed by http://www.area17.com/ and sponsored by Dell Corporation focuses on technology, art/design, gaming, environment and a category they call ‘wonderful’ which is pretty much a catch-all for things that are… wonderful I guess. At first glance the content seems to be pretty interesting, I do suspect that because of the amount of contributors that the quality of curation may become a bit sub-standard over time. It is a nice idea and I do see this kind of large scale corporate sponsored group blog/crowd sourcing portal to become pretty trendy, I hope these corporations follow through though, and actually try to learn from the content they are pulling together for innovation and not just using this platform as another means to get their logo in front of eyeballs.

Visit -> http://www.motherboard.tv/

Visit -> http://www.area17.com/

Doodlers Anonymous -> Drawing Network

jhsindesign — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:32:32 +0000

I love the premise of this online network of Doodlers. It’s a great way to share, compare and collaborate sketch phase ideas amongst friends who share the same doodling addiction. From ‘About’ page -> “Doodlers Anonymous was founded to celebrate our addiction, and like any other, we’re hooked. The need to draw, sketch, and doodle is constant. We doodle on almost anything we can find — pencil in a moleskine, marker on a napkin, ink on a torn receipt, sharpie on concrete. And we do it habitually — while on hold, in a meeting, during class, or while we should be sleeping.”

Visit -> http://www.doodlersanonymous.com

Maestro Knows -> Content is King

jhsindesign — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:27:50 +0000

‘Maestro Knows’ is an online show based around skateboarding vlogger personality Levi Maestro’s day to day life. Documenting urban skate and urban culture, style and fashion trends while skating around town is what he’s known for. Initially his vlogging took place primarily Los Angeles, his popularity has gained him some extra travel opportunities and is now roaming the streets of Japan. He’s made great use of Vimeo, Twitter and his blog to create a nice digital loudspeaker for him to broadcast through. Fun stuff. Check out his latest episode below.

Visit -> http://maestroknows.com/

Visit -> http://vimeo.com/maestroknows

Follow -> twitter.com/maestroknows

Maestro Knows – Episode 5 (Japan) from Maestro Knows on Vimeo.

Bloctor’s -> TypeRadio

jhsindesign — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:18:47 +0000

Typeradio from Blocter on Vimeo.

In this video the folks from Bloctor talk about their popular typography/design podcast ‘Typeradio’ and the idea behind the concept of taking a visual medium and placing it onto a completely invisible platform… and all the interesting conversation that comes from doing so. I also like their swim upstream approach to blogging -> Bloctor.com which is a blog that interviews and explores the life of the blogger behind the blog. It’s amazing how a slightly different approach to any given platform or medium can drastically change the content that comes from it. Pretty inspiring stuff.

Visit -> http://www.blocter.com/

I Second That -> Colectiva

jhsindesign — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:28 +0000

Leave it to www.colectiva.tv find some of the best animated gifs in cyber space. This one was posted on their site in celebration of the upcoming weekend. I strongly support that notion as it has been a very difficult week. Thanks Colectiva, I hope you don’t mind me tagging on to this idea. I hope you all have a great weekend.

Update: I took down the original animation b/c it was affecting my page load. The original .gif can be viewed via the link below.

Visit -> www.colectiva.tv

iPhone Art -> Apps/Trends

jhsindesign — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:45:16 +0000

All the above pieces of art were created with the iPhone. Believe it or not. The iPhone has yet again delivered another new interesting sub-cultural trend and a surprisingly useful technology for artists and illustrators. A few months ago I posted about the ‘New Yorker Magazine’ cover rendered completely by iPhone by artist/illustrator Jorge Colombo. That cover may have helped to fuel an entire community of iPhone artists to come about. I recently discovered http://justiphoneart.com/, the name pretty much say’s it all. It’s a blog dedicated to iPhone artists and their creations. Justiphoneart.com also serves up information on new painting apps like Layers and Brushes. I highly recommend you visit the site, the works are pretty amazing.

Visit -> http://justiphoneart.com/

Get app -> Layers

Get app -> Brushes