August 27, 2010 – 11:07 am
This month’s theme of food and design worked out perfectly, because I’ve been talking non-stop about my new obsession: TLC’s Cake Boss. Like many of its other cake show brethren, Cake Boss goes behind the scenes of a well-known bakery to show the mayhem of the baked goods business. In this instance, its Carlo’s Bakery in […]
It may be easy to gather from my previous post that I’m a bit of a poster fanatic. In fact, I’m running out of wall space. While poking around the internet trying to find inspiration for this post, I took a break to see what fun new things were in The Heads of State webstore, and saw these.
In their […]
This blog post goes out to all of my fellow history buffs.
I love fun ways of displaying data and information, and while researching this month’s blog topic, Information Graphics, I found a treasure trove of cool visual timeline maps on History Shots.
Each map displays its data in a way that is aesthetically pleasing and frankly, […]
We New Yorkers spend quite a bit of time underground riding the subway. In fact, I wrote the beginning of this blog post on my phone while riding the R train.
More often than not, we are rushing around, trying to get from here to there, and in the meantime we miss a cool feature of our city’s subway system: […]
If you’re a fan of Battery Park, I’ve got bad news: Charles Addams has released a lot of monsters in that neighborhood. And they’re eating everybody.
April Fool’s. That’s just from an illustration that I saw in a creepy mansion. The true story is as follows…
A few weeks ago I ventured out into a thunderstorm to visit the Charles Addams exhibit at […]