Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Bobbin Bicycles

rain bonnet!

non-dorky helmet

sailor reflective vest

vintage-esque pannier


Bike gear that is actually cute! Yeah Bobbin!

Friday, October 9, 2009

comic cliche!


















this is TOO funny!

more good ones at Cotton Factory

there's one that says "i'm so vegan i bleed tree sap"

classic

Thursday, October 8, 2009

continuing edu @ MIT

ok, so...i found out that MIT has a thing called OpenCourseWare which are free online course materials in all types of subjects including areas of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, etc. It includes the following classes:

Architecture:

also:

16.982 Bio-Inspired Structures

As taught in: Spring 2009

Level:

Graduate

Instructors:

Prof. Leo Daniel

Diagram of smart joint design based on a bird's wing.
A smart joint design inspired by a shore bird's morphing wing structure. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)

Course Features

Course Description

This course is offered for graduate students who are interested in the interdisciplinary study of bio-inspired structures. The intent is to introduce students to newly inspired modern advanced structures and their applications. It aims to link traditional advanced composites to bio-inspired structures and to discuss their generic properties. A link between materials design, strength and structural behavior at different levels (material, element, structural and system levels) is made. For each level, various concepts will be introduced. The importance of structural, dynamic, thermodynamic and kinetic theories related to such processing is highlighted. The pedagogy is based on active learning and a balance of guest lectures and hands-on activities.

MAS.863 How to Make (Almost) Anything

As taught in: Fall 2002

Level:

Graduate

Instructors:

Prof. Neil Gershenfeld

Prof. Issac Chuang

Photo of the MIT Media Lab waterjet cutter at work.
Photo of the MIT Media Lab waterjet cutter at work. (Courtesy of Prof. Neil Gershenfeld and Prof. Issac Chuang.)

Course Description

This course provides a hands-on introduction to the resources for designing and fabricating smart systems, including CAD/CAM/CAE; NC machining, 3-D printing, injection molding, laser cutting; PCB layout and fabrication; sensors and actuators; analog instrumentation; embedded digital processing; wired and wireless communications. This course also puts emphasis on learning how to use the tools as well as understand how they work.

11.329 Social Theory and the City

As taught in: Fall 2005

Level:

Graduate

Instructors:

Prof. Richard Sennett

Philadelphia Odunde Festival, 2004.
The 2004 Odunde Festival on South Street in Philadelphia, PA illustrates one way that communities tie their identities to urban spaces. (Image courtesy of Annis Whitlow.)

Course Features

Course Description

This course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city's architecture and spaces. It is grounded in classic or foundational writings about the city addressing such topics as the public realm and public space, impersonality, crowds and density, surveillance and civility, imprinting time on space, spatial justice, and the segregation of difference. The aim of the course is to generate new ideas about the city by connecting the social and the physical, using Boston as a visual laboratory. Students are required to present a term paper mediating what is read with what has been observed.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Logos




















Breathtaking & Creative Logos


http://www.noupe.com/
is a pretty good website for Illustrator and Photoshop inspirations, etc :D