Researchers have found that massage after a vigorous workout could relieve soreness and imflammation of muscles, plus enhance healing: They found that massage reduced the production of compounds called cytokines, which play a critical role in inflammation. Massage also stimulated mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses inside cells that convert glucose into the energy essential for cell [...] Read more – ‘The Post-Workout Massage’.
Collector’s Weekly on Facebook’s Analog Research Lab, a grassroots team of designers who spread the company gospel across its campus. Started by designers Ben Barry and Everett Katigbak, the lab consists of a print shop that produces screenprinted t-shirts and letterpress posters that carry inspirational messages coming from the bottom-up: The executives aren’t setting these [...] Read more – ‘Facebook’s (not so) secret printing press’.
Gizmodo highlights the company responsible for the blockbuster photo-sharing app. Despite it’s widespread popularity, it’s a really small company: Instagram isn’t just small; it’s tiny. It’s miniscule. It is famously located in Twitter’s old digs in San Francisco’s South Park neighborhood. But here’s the thing: Instagram subleases its space from another company. Instagram isn’t in [...] Read more – ‘A look inside Instagram’.
The New York Times on how the new eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge was designed to withstand the next major earthquake. The unconventional suspension bridge – the longest of its kind – consists of a single tower and a single cable that is anchored to the road deck itself. The supplemental interactive [...] Read more – ‘The Bay Bridge: Built to Sway’.
Matthew Broderick as himself promotes the 2012 Honda CR-V in a take on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Congratulations to my friends at RPA Advertising on a deservedly buzz-worthy Super Bowl Ad. Read more – ‘Honda CR-V: “Matthew’s Day Off”’.
Paul Adams: the rise of the social web is a structural change being driven by online life catching up with offline life. The winners in this world will be the ones who assume social behaviour in everything they do. It won’t be the ones thinking about social as a feature or product in isolation. The winners will [...] Read more – ‘Stop talking about “social”’.
Raph Koster: Good design executes on the possible. Bad design ships on time. Great design reaches for the implausible. Good design has only the parts it needs. Bad design is cluttered. Great design has fewer parts than seem possible. Good design doesn’t fail. Bad design fails a lot. Great design fails even more. I have [...] Read more – ‘Good, Bad and Great Design’.
In Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, the book’s vivid imagery is the real draw, especially in telling the Def Jam story: Hip-hop photography is rich because it depicts a genre in which the line between person and persona is intensely fraught: name another art form so profoundly [...] Read more – ‘Baz Dreisinger: The Age of Def Jam’.
Roger Black’s the Holy Grail Part 1 and Part 2: What we have now is the ugliest advertising in the history of the media. I used to say that web sites looked like the walls of a third-world futbol stadium, but that was unfair to the stadiums. Most content sites look so bad they actually [...] Read more – ‘Roger Black: Crappy advertising is ruining the web’.
