Clearing the Cache: Celebrate Good Design
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, July 23 2010
The Miners Story Project van was designed by Local Projects, one of the company's honored by First Lady Michelle Obama during Wednesday's National Design Awards event at the White House. - Michelle Obama gives props to great American designers of today and tomorrow, at a White House event. One honoree: the company that designed the Miners Story Project trailer, a rolling recording studio that goes around the southwestern U.S. to collect tales of the American mining way of life.
- But why they chose to use Mel Gibson as a model in their design, dunno.
- Twitter is promoting its list of verified world leaders. Useful stuff. That said, the ommission of Rep. Jack Kimble is rather inexplicable.
- Suffolk County, New York, joins the list of municipalities sending out emergency details via text message.
- Vaseline treats India to a face-whitening Facebook app.
- Citizen archivists are doing their country a solid, helping to digitize some 20,000 photos showing diplomactic engagements gone by.
- And Facebook becomes a factor in Oklahoma's 5th district race.