knick/knack

I'm Molly, an aspiring interaction designer with a penchant for art, animation, typography, and baby animals.

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I want to go to there.  Actually, I am going to there.

For the next two and a half weeks, Daniel and I will be traveling throughout the Honshū island of Japan, including stays in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Mount Koya, and Hakone.  We also plan to stop in Nara, Kamakura, and Miyajima.  To be honest, between the insanity that has been the past week (graduating college, leaving Chicago for good), I haven’t had much time or emotional energy to get myself excited.  I think I’m finally getting there, though.

Anyway, I may use tumblr to record my travels, and I may not.  We’ll just to have to see.  But I hope to put my neglected D40 to good use and return with some great pictures on July 11.

davidhoffman:

Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.

And it’s all done as an animated drawing. This is the best explanation I’ve seen of our relationship with time. 

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We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

On Distraction, Alain De Botton

Daily Stack is a playful tool that helps you become more aware of your daily work-flow and time management by creating a physical representation of your tasks.

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Ian Collins of The Big Caption takes images from The Big Picture and adds jokes and statements in bold typography.  So great.

Ian Collins of The Big Caption takes images from The Big Picture and adds jokes and statements in bold typography.  So great.

Lucien M. Smith for No Retrospective
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Lucien M. Smith for No Retrospective

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10×10 series Publication Design Method
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10×10 series Publication
Design Method

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Wow, the BEST internet short I’ve seen in ages.  The soccer fervor is probably lost on most Americans, but trust me, this spot is worth three minutes of your day.  Directed by Alejandro G. Iñarritu (Babel, 21 grams) for Nike.