Kintsukuroi

Love this.

Via The Year of Change.

Vancouver is Home to World's Worst Bike Lane Design

Unless this was purposely created to kill cyclists, this is the most criminally stupid bike lane design I have ever encountered:

Keep in mind that all of this is happening on a fairly steep downhill grade in a city that gets a lot of rain.

Google Map.

Microsoft Unveils New Logo

Better title: Microsoft Unveils New Mostly Okay Logo.

Gruber’s take.

Link.

Wow.

Good thing they switched her to a "neutral ethnicity":

So, thanks to the Bank of Canada, what we've learned is "neutral" means caucasian and "focus groups" means assholes.

Full Story.

Poster Design B

Poster Design A will never see the light of day.

On Design

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. – Steve Jobs