Shawn Medero

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Daily Brief, March 15th 2010, Afternoon Edition

Is inflation protection the reason so many people are unemployed? The Guardian takes a look at design innovation in the public and private sectors Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium is the 2nd largest aquarium in the world. The Kuroshio Sea is the main tank (Video). The largest aquarium is the Georgia Aquarium, in Atlanta, Georgia and their main tank […]

Daily Brief, March 5th 2010, Morning Edition

An Introduction to Universal Design, the concept that design should work for everyone: novices, experts, disabled, and non-disabled A photo gallery of neighborhood haunts and hangouts curated by Laura Brunow Miner, former editor-in-chief of JPG magazine. I know I should stop linking to Claire Zulkey’s work, but she’s got such an amazing content; like this interview with […]

Daily Brief, February 19th 2010, Afternoon Edition

Solitary Confinement, by Jan Stürmann (video, ~6 minutes) Popular Science picks their favorites from the 2010 International Toy Fair in New York. The LEGO carbonite-frozen Han Solo figurine commemorating the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite Middle-class America just wants their hand-out already More Photoshop at 20: Recreating Photoshop 1.0.7 on the iPhone

Daily Brief, February 9th 2010, Morning Edition

In a developing story from yesterday, Wolf Rentzsch counters Peter-Paul Koch’s assertion that mobile web developers have gotten lazy by focusing on building out iPhone-only web experiences. Wolf wonders if mobile web developers are trying to push the rest of the industry to catch-up. It is a fair question as mobile web browsers (outside of […]