Emily Chang – Designer

Legendary New York street artist Craig “KR” Costello customized a Mini Cooper S with his signature KRINK aesthetic. The car was shown today at Erste Liebe Bar in Hamburg, Germany. A vernissage takes place at Vicious Gallery on October 31st.

See more photos at the gallery site and visit KRINK. I love his work, especially the original drip street art and this laptop sleeve.

[Via PicoCool]

The Wordpress version 2 iPhone app (iTunes link) is now available at the App Store. There’s also a new blog focused on the iPhone app. The app, just like Wordpress itself, is open source so anyone can contribute to it. This is a community effort!

From the Wordpress iPhone blog

So, what’s new in version 2?

• A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages.
• Various user interface refinements and bug fixes
• New Comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list
• Passwords are now stored in the keychain
• Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing
• Added persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used
• Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups
• Fixed rotation-related visual glitches
• Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint
• Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved
• Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded

Citrus Pixelate, my laptop adhesive design for Infectious

I first heard about Infectious when I went to an event at IDEO in 2008 when my company, Ideacodes, had just started working with them on their new website. Infectious had a car displayed out front covered with decals by Dalek, one of my favorite artists. I loved the art and idea and made a mental note to look them up and see if you could submit art to be made into decals.  Sure enough, I discovered that Infectious not only creates car decals, but also wall adhesives, iPhone, iPod, and laptop adhesives. Designs are first selected by the team at Infectious, then chosen for production based on community voting and feedback. Once selected, voting is open for two weeks.

Fast forward to this weekend, I finally sat down and spent some time working through my ideas and created a design to submit.  I was elated to wake up to a congratulatory email from Infectious that my design for a laptop skin had been accepted and entered voting!

I’ve often thought about starting my own product line of gadget or fashion accessories or art toys and this seems like a great way to experiment. Plus, Infectious is a great company/concept that provides a backbone and an outlet for artists and designers.  Every artist receives a percentage of the profits and retains ownership of their art.

The design itself is a part of a series of personal work that I’m doing.  While there are so many gorgeous adhesive skins out there, a lot of them are highly illustrative or occasionally photographic.  I’m drawn to color, minimalism, optical illusion and digital pixelation. So this is the kind of laptop skin I would want :)  I plan to continue the line and do some iPhone/iPod adhesives as well. I’m also working on some new illustrations for some wall and car decals.

I would love your support helping my design get chosen for production. All you need to do is visit this link and vote for my design (you’ll sign in with Facebook or just signup for a free account at Infectious).  Thanks in advance!  And a big thanks to those of you that have already voted from Twitter and Facebook. xoxo

I was working on a blog post tonight and wanted to attribute a person as the source. Normally, I would just link their name to their site/blog if they had one, which would then alert them by email if they had a Google search alert on their name or URL, or it would show up as an incoming link in their Wordpress admin. In the age of real-time (albeit still asynchronous), it would be great if I could have chosen to link to their @username on Twitter, and that would show up on their @mentions view.

Apple announces a new product line, including the anticipated new Magic Mouse. It’s available for pre-order now at $69. I can’t wait to trying it when it arrives in 5-7 days.

The Multi-Touch area covers the top surface of Magic Mouse, and the mouse itself is the button. Scroll in any direction with one finger, swipe through web pages and photos with two, and click and double-click anywhere. Inside Magic Mouse is a chip that tells it exactly what you want to do. Which means Magic Mouse won’t confuse a scroll with a swipe. It even knows when you’re just resting your hand on it.

Magic Mouse uses powerful laser tracking that’s far more sensitive and responsive on more surfaces than traditional optical tracking. That means it tracks with precision on nearly every surface — whether it’s a table at your favorite cafe or the desk in your home office — without the need for a mousepad.