A question to the community at large. I’ve been asked to give an opinion on the PNG file format. More specifically, if it would be worth it to include a PNG version of products in the process of creating web photo assets. Note that I’m referring to a large number of product images (in the [...]
Haven’t had a Friday link-dump in a while. Here ya go: Type: St. Paul…er…New Hope…er…UK based Process Type Foundry (Eric Olson) has a new typeface out called Seravek. Portugal Based DSType Foundry (Dino dos Santos) is having a half-off summer sale. Dino has some great faces that are already affordably priced. Half off is going [...]
Well, I didn’t make it to Minnebar. I had every intention. It’s been a while since I’ve mingled with my peers in a geeky environ. Alas, it was on a Saturday (strike 1) and it was beautiful (strike 2) and pretty much the first ‘real’ weekend of spring (strike 3). Convincing the family that the [...]
Any adolescent boy who grew up in the pre-internet era has memories of sneaking that first peak at someone’s older brother’s stash of Playboy magazines. From that point on, talk of backyard cowboy adventures disappeared and our focus shifted gears to that exciting/hellish interaction with the opposite sex. Mixed in that were even more taboo [...]
Those of you that know me know I have grandiose dreams of building our next home here in the cities. Ideally a modern home. Possibly a prefab. Alas, most of the prefab hype has been dissappointing. It’s mainly high-end, extremely expensive options that really are targetted at the art-snob crowd rather than the average city [...]
Friday night the wife and I had a rare evening sans kids. What do parents do sans kids? We enjoy an evening at the book store *not* in the kids section. Scanning the magazine rack I noticed an impressive new MN Architecture, published by the AIA-MN. Turns out that after 25 years, they felt it [...]
The Emerging Green Builders is a new sub-committee of the Mississippi Headwaters Chapter of the USGBC. We are a group for students and young professionals who are interested in green building and sustainable design. Our first event is a tour of the green unit at the Midtown Lofts in Uptown. This will be an Open [...]
Jim, a fellow MNteractiver (MNteractivite? MNite? Geek?) has a really nice cabin. Modern, but certainly not out of place in the typical cabin environment of pine trees and innertubes. Jim, you out there? Tell us about this place!
This is a bit odd. Two unrelated posts with Mayo connections in one day. Dwell has an article this month on the Mayo Woodlands in Rochester. The Mayo Woodlands is a 470 acre housing project funded by the heir’s to the Mayo Clinic. What makes this project notable compared to most MN housing developments is [...]
UofM’s The Humanities Institute Great Speaker Series: Daniel Libeskind April 13, 2005—Northrop Auditorium, 7 p.m. Daniel Libeskind Already one of the world’s leading architects, Daniel Libeskind’s profile has taken a dramatic leap forward with his selection as the lead architect on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site, the most important American architectural project [...]