Feb 05

Two rather different Facebook login/signup pages, depending on whether you just arrived or you just logged out. No points for guessing which is which.

Jan 31
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enochliew:

Pockets by Mr Porter

A ticket pocket sits above the right hip pocket of a jacket. Flap pockets are the norm for hip pockets on a jacket but, traditionally, dinner jackets have jetted pockets. Patch pockets are made from a separate piece of cloth and gives an informal feel. 

enochliew:

Planet by Marc Quinn

The cantilevering seven ton painted bronze and steel statue has recently been moved to Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay.

Word. I don’t know how I missed this on my cycle through Gardens by the Bay recently.

Jan 30
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enochliew:

How to fold a pocket square by Bearings

enochliew:

Rebranding Microsoft by Andrew Kim

A student’s smart rebranding is better than the real thing. It was inspired by the oblique perspective of windows in corporate office towers.

I’m not sure if it’s “better” in any sense, but it certainly is a different way of looking at things. I’ll never look at the glass-façade office towers in Raffles Place the same again.

enochliew:

Art Toy by Thibaut Malet

Handmade in limited edition of 20 pieces (11cm). Each toy is unique and numbered under the feet of the character for collectors.

Nice workmanship.

Jan 27
In medicine, too, we are trying to deliver a range of services to millions of people at a reasonable cost and with a consistent level of quality. Unlike the Cheesecake Factory, we haven’t figured out how. Our costs are soaring, the service is typically mediocre, and the quality is unreliable. Every clinician has his or her own way of doing things, and the rates of failure and complication (not to mention the costs) for a given service routinely vary by a factor of two or three, even within the same hospital.

Can Hospital Chains Improve the Medical Industry? : The New Yorker

Both the food franchise and hospital bits are pretty interesting.

Jan 19

Alex MacCaw on What it’s like to work for Stripe:

By convention, every email at Stripe is CC-ed to lists that go to either the entire company or to any particular team. This includes internal person-to-person correspondence. Our lists include dev, sys, office, product and support. From the internal wiki:

It turns out that Stripe generates a lot of email. In most cases, this is quite an intentional, positive thing — it’s a great communication mechanism, persists forever, and is easily searchable. The reasons for CCing lists, is it’s a really low-friction way to keep everyone in the loop, and that way people can jump in with helpful advice.

It’s also a really good way to preserve openness as we grow (everyone still gets to see all the cool and important things that Stripe is up to) without requiring much extra effort. This requires a lot of filtering, of course, but it allows me to dip in and out of the company’s fire hose whenever I want. It gives every one of us a tremendous perspective and insight into what other people are working on, and a feeling of connectivity to the rest of the company.

I’ve never before seen this level of access or trust at a company. Other companies preach fearless communication. Stripe practices it.

Jan 18
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harvest:

Designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen has created “365,” an interesting clock concept that tells time in a different manner; instead of just displaying the minutes and the hours, it knits round the clock for 365 days. Once a full year has passed, the knitting clock will have created a two-meter scarf for you to use and remember the year by.

It looks like a wormhole at the mouth. But it’s a great idea, a tangible “year’s worth” of something to hold.. 

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urbanfunscape:

Design Academy Einhoven graduate Kasia Zareba created a new type of drainpipe to make this water flow more visible. By replacing the traditional plastic casing with an open net, Zareba has not only made the drainpipe more playful and beautiful, she also hopes to “encourage people to make better use of the water that comes free, straight from the sky”.

Read more: popupcity.net/2012/11/ddw12-playful-drainpipes-by-kasia-zareba/#ixzz2CInFg1Kb 
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial

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