All men carry pens, right? But putting a pen in your pants pocket can be a bit of a pain — it rolls around with your keys, sticks out to one side, the cap tears at the pocket lining. Sitting next to my friend Nik Agharkar at a dinner party, I noticed him reach inside [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Photography'
Photo of the day: Pen Pocket
October 28th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Photography
Tags:Design·Photography·Pleasure
Photo of the day: Negative Floors
October 19th, 2011 · 27 Comments · Photography
Some buildings label their 1st floor as 1, others as L for lobby or G for ground floor. I’ve even seen it as 0 in European cities where the “1st floor” denotes the first floor above ground level — what Americans consider to be the 2nd floor. But never have I ever seen this: Negative [...]
Tags:Design·Pain·Photography
Photo of the day: Follow this line
January 11th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Photography
I walked into the Barnes & Noble on 18th Street and Fifth Ave the other day, and found something curious. Lines of colored tape along the floor. As I approached a sales guy for help finding something, I overheard him talking to the gentleman before me: “Just follow the yellow line to the end and [...]
Photo of the day: Brand Transparency
June 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Branding, Customer Experience, Photography, Pleasure
Headed back home from Heathrow Airport after a lovely vacation, I stopped at the Pret A Manger for a quick pre-flight bite. When I got to the cash register, I noticed this awesome sticker — concise, honest, and, best of all, empathetic. VAT NIGHTMARE We’re legally required to add on VAT when you eat in. [...]
Photo of the day: Visualizing Genres
June 17th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Gadgetry, Pain, Photography, User Experience
Hotel alarm clocks are usually a big pain in the butt. Hampton Inn aims to fix all that — and takes simplicity to inconceivable levels. They go so far past easy to use and intuitive that they come back around to obscure and pointless. They visualize musical genres. Columns for Classical Stream for Soft Rock [...]
