Design Info: Archive

July 2010

Jul 31, 2010

US food waste worth more than offshore drilling → newscientist.com

Incredible: MORE energy is wasted in food discarded by people in the US each year than is available in oil and gas reserves off the nation’s coastlines. (+ dairy production and fishing waste)

Jul 31, 2010

Jul 30, 2010

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What BP Could Have Bought With All the Money They Lost → visualeconomics.com

Jul 30, 2010

Controversy over 'lost' Ansel Adams photos turns negative → edition.cnn.com

Good CNN phone recording of Ansel Adams grandson telling why the found glass negatives were not taken by his grandfather. I agree!

Jul 29, 2010

Know Your Icons Part 1 – A Brief History of Computer Icons → psd.tutsplus.com

Jul 26, 2010

Amtrak System as underground map → flickr.com

Jul 20, 2010

“There are 6 million species on the planet, and 80% walk on 6 legs.” —

Marcel Dicke, Ecological Entomologist

@DanielPink via TED

Jul 20, 2010

Green cleaning product sold in cartridges, diluted at home with tap water → springwise.com

Animation and more here

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Eisenhower Interstate System in the style of London Underground Map → flickr.com

Jul 15, 2010

Beautiful Dragonflies Hover Near Extinction → treehugger.com

There are more species of dragonflies on the planet than there are species of mammals.

Jul 13, 2010

The Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage → gensler.com

In Momence, Illinois?!

Jul 13, 2010

The YouWorkForThem Book Archive → books.youworkforthem.com

Another terrific book cover archive but mainly design books.

Jul 13, 2010