Category: long story short

  • I fought the bus and the bus won

    This past week, driving to work on 580 east my car “became involved in an accident” with a bus or large van (it happened very quickly and I left the scene in an ambulance, so I’m not positive of all the details). Our first step was to inform the attorneys for personal injury cases in…

  • New iPhone stencils for prototypers

    Interaction designer and prototyper Chris Stone recently volunteered to adapt the iPhone stencils in our OmniGraffle based stencil kit in the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and optimize them for use in Adobe InDesign. Chris “created a customizable, vector-based iPhone stencil library for InDesign.” To make it he worked from the PDF version of the stencil…

  • Map sketches from over the Pacific

    (san francisco peninsula) (new york harbor) (san francisco bay) (western north america) (bering straits)

  • Happy blog day to me

    Boy was I smart to start my first real blog on my birthday (in ’97). It sure helps keep things straight around here. Somehow along the way I turned 45. What. The. Fuck? Now, in honor of the kind of manic blogging I used to do before the twitter and the employment, I will actually…

  • Down in the Blue Mountains

    teeny falls Originally uploaded by true dirt Briggs took some wonderful pictures in Oz. This one’s from the rainy day we climbed down the ravines in the Blue Mountains.

  • The book has arrived!

    the book has arrived! Originally uploaded by erin_designr We started our book proposal around June of ’08…