Long Island City Starts an Overground Art Movement
Walking around Long Island City's vibrant Steinway street the other night, I noticed some interesting additions to the standard subway grates. These new undulating raised grates appeared to have been...
Apple Keyboard: Cleanliness Does Not Compute
For a company so concerned with keeping things neat & tidy, Apple had a long way to go with their keyboard design over the past few years. The big issue...
Sheri Koetting: A Tale of Two Lectures
Last Thursday was a whirlwind day for Sheri. Two talks in one day, in the same building. Her first talk was to the Queens Economic Development Corporation to women business...
Breakfast Epiphanies
If you didn't know this already, I am a pathological punster. It's a compulsion I suppress at every level, as puns are best doled out sparingly to the unsuspecting. If...
Final Verdict: New Tropicana Branding is a Lemon
I realize that picking on Tropicana's ill-fated new branding has become as common as picking on AIG's improperly compensated managers. However, I'm choosing to lambaste Tropicana here not because of...
There’s Something About Louis.
A few months back, Sheri wrote about copyright infringement in an earlier post, and cited one particular case where Microsoft was sued by photographer Louis Psihoyos for allegedly copying a...
Ecofont: Color You Like, As Long As It’s Green
I just found out about Ecofont, a font designed specifically to use 20% less ink, thus saving money and lessening your environmental impact as you print (the elusive "win/win"). Using...
Felt Forum: Ben Mickus’s Innovative Felt Chair at the Cooper Hewitt
MSLK's good friend (and architectural guru) Ben Mickus has an absolutely amazing chair on exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's "Fashioning Felt" exhibit on display March 6 - September...