CrashSplat, BANG!

For some reason, not yet apparent to me, my employer thought it would be nice to interview me about our latest product release. If you are interested in reading you can get a glimpse and request a copy here.

So the new designs for the British currency seem to be all the rage in the design community these days, and they are quite striking, check them out at the Royal Mint.

For an amusing comparison between the new UK currency and the recently released $5 dollar bill, check out typography.com.

On the issue of money, it’s fascinating that coins have never really taken off here in the States, but in the UK they’re huge. If you travel to the UK then you’ll know what I mean simply by the weight, and musical qualities of your pockets.

Here are a couple of things that I stumbled upon this week in the aftermath of SXSWi. I’m not sure exactly where I found them. Probably through twitter or someone’s blog, but they somehow made it into delicious. Anyway, check them out.

• Design Eye for South By - SXSW 2008
• SXSW Interactive 2008 - a photoset on Flickr

One of the days I’m going to make it to SXSWi. I’m sure that by the time I do it will have become completely irrelevant.

I grew up in the South. I still live in the South (supposedly). Because of my upbringing, you might say that I have certain expectations about manners. These expectations have been fueling frustrations recently. These frustrations typically erupt when I am going to the grocery store to pick up some last minute items. As I am walking into, or out of the store, inevitably there are cars trying to leave the parking lot. Where I’m from you YIELD to pedestrians, and let people walk across the parking lot to get into the store, or get to their cars. Not so, in Cary, NC. Oh no, in Cary you had better be careful walking into a store or you might just get whacked. I have started throwing my arms up in the air and staring at drivers. Probably not safe, but I feel it is necessary.