In my book I write about some of the trade-offs involved in making tag clouds. Whenever you have a lot of tags, tag frequencies usually follow a power-law distribution. ...

The Japanese are masters of design. There is a cultural appreciation for aesthetics that permeates everything they produce. Sometimes, though, there are items that cause...

I guess that explains why this early nineties carbon fiber Ferrari Colnago C35 with gold plated C-record components is up to 6 grand on eBay with 2 days still to go. When...

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics. RIP, Robert Rauschenberg. (Pic courtesy NY Times.) The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma....

Three new reviews are to be found on the Fortune 500 Business blogging wiki in the last few days. Two of the reviews were of the same company, Johnson & Johnson, which...

['Design Lesson 101' is a regular column by Raven game designer Manveer Heir. The challenge is to play a game from start to completion - and learn something about game...

In the end they managed it: the 9ff has beaten the maximum speed of the Bugatti Veyron, stated objective for this incredible GT9, which, with its 409km/h has beaten by...

Los Angeles, CA - May 13th, 2008- Today, mStation/mophie announces the availability of the new Radura case for iPhone, iPod Touch, Nano(3G), and Classic. The...

I've been looking at lifeiscarbon, from ad man Nicholas McLean, for a few weeks now. I wasn't entirely sure what was going on there, but this post helps spell it out. ...

Yesterday I went to Documenta. Along with feeling under the weather, I am getting to be too much of a curmudgeon to walk though a half dozen museums of Scotch tape,...

Two years ago, Google released a collection of n-grams from web pages and made it available on Linguistic Data Consortium's website. "We processed 1,024,908,267,229 words...

This weekend I went to the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin to see a show that included the work of Larry Clark. After recent discussions on this blog (here and here)...

Jakub is a User Researcher in xDesign and works mainly on Java tools. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology. As a part of my doctoral studies I am...

The new issue of frieze is devoted to the question of reality in the age of aesthetics.  Mark Nash on the topic:Much has been written, some of it by me, on the...

O'Reilly's Make magazine and the Maker Faire that we're hosting today and tomorrow in San Mateo, California have been described in many ways, ranging from a revival...

O'Reilly's Make magazine and the Maker Faire that we're hosting today and tomorrow in San Mateo, California have been described in many ways, ranging from a revival...

I told you about the Muslim cell phone in September of 2005 and the Jewish wristwatch in August of 2005. Now, the Buddhists have their own phone, and this may be the most...

The Imaginary Forces kids look like they had a ball putting the aesthetics of children's books into motion for the titles of Nim's Island. "Lasers,...

SieMatic's innovative kitchen designs combine modern aesthetics with the functionality of a Swiss Army knife. The neglected drawer bottom becomes an attractive and...

There is a term among the gamer community the describes a certain subsect of gamers interested only in how impressive a game looks -- "graphics whores." These...