Infographic: United States of the Environment In the spirit of two popular infographics that map out the best and worst of all 50 U.S. states — the United States of Awesome and the United States of Shame — MNN decided to see how each state shines or suffers in regard to environmental and public health. Our "United States of the Environment" maps depict each state's No. 1 and No. 50 ranking for issues such as conservation, agriculture, energy efficiency, disease prevalence, pollution, natural resource availability and education, among others. Check out the two maps below, and see our list of states, stats and sources for more information. Sources for "good U.S." map:Alabama: Lowest rate of alcohol abuse or dependence (U.S. 6 | Could You Solutionize That For Me? When Clients' Dumbest Requests Become Art Ah, the relationship between creative professional and client. A give and take ballet as old as commerce. Caricatures abound on both sides. Irish creative team Mark Shanley and Paddy Treacy recently orchestrated a lemonade-making sort of project that turns clients’ less informed requests into art. According to Treacy, all the comments you see are real. And, not for nothing, Treacy also acknowledges that clients are hardly alone in being occasionally intolerable. Take a look at some of the client comments above. Next week: the clients’ revenge?
people.clarkson.edu/~ttamon/quotes.txt Beware of your thoughts, they become your words. Beware of your words, they become your actions. Beware of your actions, they become your habits. Beware of your habits, they become your character. Beware of your character, it becomes your destiny. - Unknown I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. Wild Scenics Pictures [ View fewer images per page ] Click here to show (or hide) search and display options [ For a large image and details: click on photo to stay in current window, click on photo ID to open new window.] PostSecret lucky-nine photography 25 Unusual Places to Get Design Inspiration Credit: photo by by Phantasy Photo on Flickr One of the most frustrating situations you can encounter as a freelance designer is when you’re all ready to go but the ideas just aren’t flowing! You struggle to retain focus but staunchly refuse to accept defeat, until your screensaver goes on. Over the last couple of years we’ve done our best to provide sources of inspiration for just this occasion, with articles on getting inspiration such as: One site that has been mentioned throughout is Creattica, a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery. Inspiration Note & Point Note & Point describes itself as a gallery of Keynote and PowerPoint presentations looking that much better. The Book Cover Archive The Book Cover Archive is exactly what it says on the tin, an extensive collection of book cover designs and their designers. Printed Piece Photo Retouching As mentioned above Creattica is the place to get all kinds of design inspiration! One Eyeland Fashion Served Industrial Design Served Buamai
Animation on a Bike Here’s a wonderful zoetrope animation using paper discs mounted on bicycle wheels by Katy Beveridge as part of her 3rd year dissertation project at CSM in London. Beveridge mentions being partially influenced by the technique of Tim Wheatley who has also explored the ideas of bicycle-wheel animation. See many more zoetrope videos previously on Colossal. (via peta pixel) The 6 Crappiest Interview Questions All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP A One Man Mobile Studio At Burning Man When acclaimed studio photographer Eric Schwabel goes to Burning Man he doesn’t leave his passion behind. In 2010 he took a clever hand built “light suit” to the massive festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and captured the plethora of beautiful, colorful revelers in engaging detail. Below we catch up with Schwabel for an exclusive interview about his experiences on the dusty playa. See Also SCOTT LONDON CAPTURES THE MAGIC OF BURNING MAN For more on the Burning Man festival see burningman.com (be sure to check out their Survival Guide). See more of Eric Schwabel’s portraits, including many famous individuals, at schwabelstudio.com. If you like Burning Man, make sure to check out the photography of Scott London. How heavy was your human light suit and was it hard to steer? The suit gives your images an almost in-studio lighting effect. What was the response like from the people you photographed? That’s a lot of lights. The picture below was taken by Paige Tucker.
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