is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
PBS’s Frontline regularly turns out incisive and fascinating documentaries, each of which is accompanied by an impressively deep microsite. These are more than just brochureware; they feature extended interviews, articles, charts, essays and reference materials. You could spend hours in any one of them, whether you’re interested in Hollywood, the Clinton years or global warming. They’re well-designed and content-rich, and great examples of how old media can get the most out of new media.
Television is a heck of a lot better today than it has been at just about any time I can remember. This includes the glory days of my youth when networks actually thought they could pass off the likes of Matt Houston as quality entertainment and people would go for it. Everybody loves The Sopranos of course, but I’m equally wowed by The West Wing, and I’m probably more impressed by this season’s newly initiated Scrubs than just about anything else. That said, I really, really have to stop watching TV, because it stills sucks the energy from one’s soul mercilessly.
The nine year-old in me (okay, and the twenty-nine year old, too) is really excited for the Cartoon Network’s upcoming Justice League series, debuting a week from today. Read more about it at Comics2Film. [Correction: Actual premiere date is Sat 17 Nov. ]
It says something about the Superman mythos that it can be reinterpreted as a Buffy/Dawson’s Creek-style teen drama, as the WB Network is doing this fall with Smallville. What it says exactly, I’m not sure.