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Multitasker, or Multiple Unitasker?

November 17, 2009
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Alton Brown’s conversion of a fire extinguisher into a smoothie maker got me thinking about unitasking devices in my own kitchen.
(A digression: The fire extinguisher in that demo is a CO2 model, which is hardly ever sold for kitchen use. Kitchen extinguishers are usually dry chemical models, which I don’t recommend for smoothies unless you [...]

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Information is Beautiful

November 11, 2009
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One of my secondary careers — book designer and typographer — began with a commission to design this book. Before the project started, the author gave me a copy of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte, telling me that he wanted me to emulate the book’s production values, editing, and clarity of [...]

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Irving Penn, 1917-2009

October 8, 2009
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Photographer Irving Penn died yesterday. Anyone with even a passing interest in modern American design is familiar with his work. He transformed fashion photography from overcrowded set pieces to minimalist abstracts that focused on the clothes and the models themselves. The photo above – one of his most well-known – is of Lisa Fonssagrives, who [...]

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Mahlon Hoagland: 1921-2009

September 25, 2009
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He worked with James Watson and Francis Crick. He discovered transfer RNA and amino acid activation. He was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. His name was Mahlon Hoagland, he passed away last week, and you have never heard of him. I had never heard of him until a series of unlikely circumstances brought us [...]

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Tools of the Trade

July 7, 2009
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I‘m a web designer, but every now and then my print background bleeds through. I’ll find myself telling a client “Let’s push that left margin over two more picas,” or “I think we can indent the paragraphs two ems.” I can’t help it, it’s how I learned to think about composing a page.
When Aldus PageMaker [...]

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Borked

June 12, 2009

The WordPress update from version 2.7 to 2.8 screwed up my custom header graphic, so you’ll have to deal with the crappy type until I find the time to design a new theme.

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Triumph of the BelmSled

April 9, 2009

Di and I donated tickets to the Boston Museum of Science to Miles’s fourth grade class. His teacher, Ms. Mullen, asked if we would would like to attend, knowing our mutual interests in science would help her in answering questions raised by the kids.
One of the scheduled activities was a visit to the Design Challenge [...]

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Moving in your sleep

March 31, 2009

Another under the hood change today: While you were sleeping, I moved the blog to a new address: http://blog.belm.com. You were redirected here automatically (look at the address in your URL field), but you should update your bookmarks — the old URL, http://www.belm.com/blog/ will disappear in a month.

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Share and enjoy

March 30, 2009

I’ve added a new feature, the Share/Save button that now appears at the bottom of each post. It’s from Add To Any, but I first saw it used on the wonderful Rational Moms and the Bill of Rights – Security Edition blogs.

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Meet the new juice, same as the old juice

February 24, 2009

PepsiCo, it its unrelenting desire to maintain parity with the Coca Cola Company, has managed to create its own “New Coke” debacle. Their mis-step, however, had nothing to do with the taste of a product, but with its appearance. I’m talking about Tropicana orange juice.
We are all familiar with the Tropicana logo: the orange with [...]

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