Love Minneapolis is Live!

We went live with the brand spanking new Love Minneapolis site this week. I really like how this one turned out. It just felt right as I was designing it.I’m excited to see the impact that Love Minneapolis will continue to have on our community. 

This could totally work as our second car…

Most days, I could get away with never getting on the highway…This seems ideal minus the safety factor of needing to have the kids in the backseat pushed up against the back window…

For under 15,000 it’s a pretty sweet deal especially since it claims to run on about $210 of electricity a year…

ZennCars

Love this from LifeChurch…

LifeChurch.tv

Everybody’s going green.

so i thought I’d provide a few links to some sweet greens:

Inhabitat  I’m really into this blog lately. So much good stuff, it’s heading to the blogroll.

TreeHugger. Deep well of information. Start clicking and you may find yourself at the center of the onion.

The Green Guide. Genuinely Practical.

Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day. Mmmm. Lemon Verbena Green Clean. 

7 Poor Communication Skills to Avoid

7 Poor Communication Skills to Avoid

1. Contacting others only when you need something.
2. Not following up, or closing the loop.
3. Not returning telephone calls or email messages.
4. Foregoing basic courtesy.
5. Not listening.
6. Telling lies.
7. Spewing chronic negativity.

All i can say is guilty, guilty, guilty.

This post was a summary of this post, which was a summary of this post.

Leopard Feature Love Update: Quicklook is changing my productivity level.

On the days when I’m a designer, I’m in Adobe Illustrator all day long. Until now, finding the exact version of a file I want has been somewhat cumbersome. With this Quicklook Plugin for Illustrator, it’s a breeze.  Now I cruise along finding things more efficiently…because I can see inside all of these files without ever opening Illustrator…Sweet!  

TED

I had no idea. TED has a podcast/RSS Video Feed…. Get it here:

RSS 

iTunes Podcast Link

Zune Podcast Link (Just kidding, I don’t go there…not that there’s anything wrong with it:)

If you don’t listen to TED Talks, you should. 

If you do listen to TED Talks, listen to some more…  

Christmas Galore 2007

See the photos here…

It’s about time. Office for Mac 2008.

Ars Technica has a first look review of the new Microsoft Office for Mac 2008.

I’m oddly excited about this. Everyone knows I’m an Apple Fanboy, and I love Pages, I’m just not so keen on Numbers.  Overall though, Microsoft has done something smart with their Mac line of products for years…Office for Windows and Office for Mac are developed separately. Not that they aren’t talking and including similar features, but if you’ve been on both platforms, you would recognize that some features (Mail Merge for one) have been much easier and more robust on the Mac for years.

The not so smart thing that Microsoft did, was they didn’t talk internally about cross-platform compatibility. They released the Office for Windows update last year, with no compatibility on the Mac for the .docx file format. — Not so brilliant.  

Anywho…it really looks like this is a huge upgrade and extremely well designed from a Mac perspective.

Can’t wait to get my hands on it…should be available at Macworld next week or sometime in January…

This is bananas!

Just happen to be googling myself…when I came across this link to a picture of some work I had in this Minneapolis Foundation Art Gallery. 

It’s really funny.

It was a show for commercial designers and the art they do on the job and off the job. Those bananas were the first painting I was ever really proud of. There’s also some business card and logo designs that you can’t make out well in the photo…

I just think it’s hilarious that this stuff still lives online somewhere…