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Brooklyn_Tweed A photo weblog by a male knitter from Brooklyn, New York.

Cass_Knits! A personal knitting weblog by a Christian mother of eight.

Chronicles_of_a_Yarn_Obsession A weblog detailing a young Navy wife's ups and downs in knitting, crocheting, and life. Occasional free patterns available.

Clutch_Creations The knitting journal of a mom with two young girls.

Cogknition A Cognitive Psychologist muses about knitting.

G__Bella_Knits A weblog that discusses knitting, yarn, and pattern design.


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23.Aug Learning’s from the Academy Skills. Designers have a lot of them. Designers need a lot of them. Some of us are swept up in our endeavor to be better designers and deliberately choose to improve our sketching, learn some new piece of software, read up on that latest ‘design trend’. However, I put it to you that there is [...] 14.Aug Liberalism and Design Culture Living in Holland is strange. Its liberal attitudes towards soft drugs are amusing. Its insane transport layout of cycle-lanes and roads are confusing. Their willingness to speak whichever language you happen to speaking (be that English, French, German or Belgian) is bemusing. In its essence living in Holland is just like living in the [...] 27.May Design: What we can learn from Africa Africa fades in and out of the limelight pretty regularly. Reporters report on the awful deaths and killings in the Middle East but reports on the thousands dying from AIDs, war and famine every week are fading and distant. Africa is a thorn in the western worlds side, a technicality that is only of importance [...]

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29.Aug The Brand for Brands Since I work above one of the biggest shopping malls in Hong Kong it is inevitable that I need to walk through it every morning, lunchtime and evening. Most of the shopping done is fashion related with about 90% of the shops catering to the fashion/brand aware. One casual lunchtime I walked past a shop [...] 24.Jul Story is more important than aesthetics “What does it do?” she said, lifting her eyes off the thick wad of dog-eared sketches in front of her.“Umm, well you put the toy in here and it shoots it out of it……I tried to get the feeling of the environment the toy is set in accurate enough so that it looks nice and [...] 01.Jun Experience makes the product A new article posted on Core77 has challenged the creation of artifacts in design, instead arguing that designing an experience is of top importance, with everything simply aiding the interaction process that someone has with that experience. Peter Merholz talks about the success of Kodak, Apple and TiVo as prime examples of a company [...]

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16.Feb Human Is? Based on Philip K. Dick’s book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), Blade Runner takes us into a world where humans have created sentient beings almost identical to humans. The film, just like the book, asks the age old question of what it is to be human. If our own emotional responses and [...] 26.May Meet Mr Woo: ‘This farmer grows robots’ Channel Five in the UK is currently having a special on China, showing a range of documentaries and films about the nation and its history. One such program is Paul Merton In China. For those who aren’t familiar with Mr Merton, you can catch him on Have I Got News For You in the UK [...]

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12.Aug Austin Avenue: Hong Kong Street Art Being quite a fan of graffiti and street art and it’s diversity and impact on a city, it was hard for me to arrive in Hong Kong and to see almost no graffiti on the walls and buildings around the city.Maybe the laws on graffiti are especially strict or the people of this great [...] 30.Jun Chinese work ethic: Living up to the hype Recently I had the opportunity to visit a injection mould production factory located on the ourskirts of the up and coming “Whatever Hong Kong can do, we can do better” city, Shenzhen. Located just over the border into China’s Guangdong Province. A simple 30 minute train ride from Kowloon to the edge of Hong Kong [...] 22.Jun Getting stuff done in China “Can you carry this? I want to take you with me to a meeting with one of our vendors” she said as she handed me the large, rough working model of a current design idea. Still clutching the work I thought I was going to be presenting my boss for final approval I realized this [...]

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