FUNNY FEELING
Saturday, August 19, 2006
What did you have for lunch today?
Technology gives us the ability to be available and on check from anywhere. If you stay online for long enough, iChat can be a good monitor for viewing how friends in your network live their lives. From my iChat menu, I can gather the information about their status: sleeping patterns, when they have lunch, how they represent themselves in their icons and (with iTunes) what music they listen to.
From July to August, I began to list the things I ate from breakfast to dinner. And what I found out is I really like Asian food and coffee and I skip breakfast. Here's the complete list:
bagel and cafe con leche
tacos and guinness
medium coffee and a not so ripe banana
small coffee with light cream and a banana
vegetable curry and sapporo
ong choy with preserved tofu and iced tea
beet salad and coffee
penne alla vodka
UCC BLACK無糖
barley tea and orbit gum
caesar salad and chicken wings
hank huang's brown rice and chicken cutlet
veg. omelet and another coffee
jap chae, hijiki and small coffee
sukiyaki and beer
large black coffee
scoop of tuna, green salad and large coffee
pad see mao and sapporo
large americano and muffin
beer, beer, and fries
two pints of newcastle and fries
chicken, grits, greens and MGD
green tea boba and leftover fish dumplings
soon doobu chigae and hot barley tea
salmon onigiri and coffee
8" turkey sub and 21 oz drink
tuna salad and medium coffee
leftovers
croissant and coffee with 1/2 & 1/2
lots of dumplings
falafel sandwich from father nature
some type of shredded chicken over rice
fruit salad(cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple and watermelon)
pho tai from golden deli
beet salad and goat cheese, more coffee
salmon focaccia sandwich & green bean slushie for dessert
penne arrabiata witha turkey meatballsa
coffee and two day old crab cake
chicken quesadilla & two margaritas-aye arriba!
coffee
rice soup with pickles, fried egg and salmon flakes
coffee and sesame crackers
malaysian chicken rice and chrysantheum tea
6" turkey sandwich from Subway
oodles of noodles
I ♥ pho and chia gio and taiwan beer
duk bokki
eggs moliere and bloody mary
noodle soup and pickled cabbage
감사합니다! I ♥ 두부찌개
cafe con leche
black coffee and a glazed crueller
beef noodle soup and black coffee/ 2 sugars
coffee and croissant
From July to August, I began to list the things I ate from breakfast to dinner. And what I found out is I really like Asian food and coffee and I skip breakfast. Here's the complete list:
bagel and cafe con leche
tacos and guinness
medium coffee and a not so ripe banana
small coffee with light cream and a banana
vegetable curry and sapporo
ong choy with preserved tofu and iced tea
beet salad and coffee
penne alla vodka
UCC BLACK無糖
barley tea and orbit gum
caesar salad and chicken wings
hank huang's brown rice and chicken cutlet
veg. omelet and another coffee
jap chae, hijiki and small coffee
sukiyaki and beer
large black coffee
scoop of tuna, green salad and large coffee
pad see mao and sapporo
large americano and muffin
beer, beer, and fries
two pints of newcastle and fries
chicken, grits, greens and MGD
green tea boba and leftover fish dumplings
soon doobu chigae and hot barley tea
salmon onigiri and coffee
8" turkey sub and 21 oz drink
tuna salad and medium coffee
leftovers
croissant and coffee with 1/2 & 1/2
lots of dumplings
falafel sandwich from father nature
some type of shredded chicken over rice
fruit salad(cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple and watermelon)
pho tai from golden deli
beet salad and goat cheese, more coffee
salmon focaccia sandwich & green bean slushie for dessert
penne arrabiata witha turkey meatballsa
coffee and two day old crab cake
chicken quesadilla & two margaritas-aye arriba!
coffee
rice soup with pickles, fried egg and salmon flakes
coffee and sesame crackers
malaysian chicken rice and chrysantheum tea
6" turkey sandwich from Subway
oodles of noodles
I ♥ pho and chia gio and taiwan beer
duk bokki
eggs moliere and bloody mary
noodle soup and pickled cabbage
감사합니다! I ♥ 두부찌개
cafe con leche
black coffee and a glazed crueller
beef noodle soup and black coffee/ 2 sugars
coffee and croissant
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
No Visible Hardware
I've had a great opportunity to create the identity for an amazing architectural firm in Los Angeles. The firm is called Escher GuneWardena and they are completely subscribed to the Modernist way of architecture. White boxes on hillsides of LA. Talking with them about architecture, website and identity work has led to many interesting perspectives of design. They believe that everything should be tied to a function and have a strong, driving concept behind it. Below are a few points in website design:
1) No scrollbars, textfields or hardware of any kind should be visible. On a site visit to an apartment they were designing, I noticed that the walls were seamless, no door handles or molding. It was sheer white plane that wrapped around the room. Even the door hinges were concealed within the door.
2) Entrance to a space. Why should a site visitor be presented with any information when they first enter a site? Shouldn't there be a "foyer"? Wouldn't that be more eloquent? The partners both agreed that the site should have a soft landing page before the visitor sees the content. Maybe this could be a new trend of "slow" sites? In their building designs, the door always opens to a foyer and slowly leads the visitor to the main living space, never directly.
3) The size of the space reveals the function. We did something similar in our Blux web site which was a brilliant design decision. Content dictates the size of the button text. The partners loved the idea of allowing information to control the design. Similarly, architectural plans shows that there's a reason why bathrooms and closets are smaller than living rooms.
4) Content sorting. What if architecture could be sorted by color, elevation and size? Rem Koolhaus's monogram S,M,L,XL is organized by the size of the building. I suggested that Escher GuneWardena may have a chance at being whimiscal by sorting their projects by elevation to the LA landscape.
1) No scrollbars, textfields or hardware of any kind should be visible. On a site visit to an apartment they were designing, I noticed that the walls were seamless, no door handles or molding. It was sheer white plane that wrapped around the room. Even the door hinges were concealed within the door.
2) Entrance to a space. Why should a site visitor be presented with any information when they first enter a site? Shouldn't there be a "foyer"? Wouldn't that be more eloquent? The partners both agreed that the site should have a soft landing page before the visitor sees the content. Maybe this could be a new trend of "slow" sites? In their building designs, the door always opens to a foyer and slowly leads the visitor to the main living space, never directly.
3) The size of the space reveals the function. We did something similar in our Blux web site which was a brilliant design decision. Content dictates the size of the button text. The partners loved the idea of allowing information to control the design. Similarly, architectural plans shows that there's a reason why bathrooms and closets are smaller than living rooms.
4) Content sorting. What if architecture could be sorted by color, elevation and size? Rem Koolhaus's monogram S,M,L,XL is organized by the size of the building. I suggested that Escher GuneWardena may have a chance at being whimiscal by sorting their projects by elevation to the LA landscape.