Ambigrams are hot. They’ve been around forever as a curiosity but are catching on in logos and type now because…I don’t know – everything else has been done? Check out this gallery at wired.
A web-search on ambigrams will turn up a bunch of tattoo sites. Something about their symmetry and mystical puzzling quality makes people [...]
Long ago, when I started this blog, I wanted to release some new clock designs. I was motivated by the TokyoFlash approaches, and wanted to come up with some based on epicyclic movement. Why would one bother? Longer ago, I had difficulty reading an ‘analog’ clock. I was a child of the digital age, and [...]
I set myself – what appeared to be – a very generous deadline about 5 months ago to finish a piece of software I was writing in time to show at a conference. The conference was just last week and so the weeks leading up to it were busy with final touches to the code [...]
In some of the computational research I do, one often talks about taking a “random walk through the space.” This is to get a feel of how messy a design problem is, or how much things changed by making the same size small changes.To me (and probably no one else), there’s an interesting tie-in with [...]