Core77 posted some great work by Jun Rekimoto. I love the idea of modular, snap together, context aware, components, and the execution is sick, however, I dread the day my primary workspace looks like my CD rack.

Making Things released more Blocks.

Jesse James Garrett has a blogg.

Fivefoureleven has tons of XMLHttpRequest documentation.

Google has a site ducumenting their code (The ajaxslt project looks particularly interesting).

And, there seems to be some rumblings of legitimizing web web scripting.

This past week Core 77 posted an entry mentioning Lance Wyman. The Core 77 author cinnamonoatmeal, was simply pointing out that Wyman's identity and visual system for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico is 'really awsome' and, it is.

Wyman worked with architect Pedro Ramirez to create the Huichole Indian inspired design. The result is an op-art aesthetic, which bridges the Native vernacular to modern design. Wyman's work is particularly relevant today. The system is an example of the hybridity Catharine McCoy referred to in her essay Hybridity Happens, Emigre 67. In her essay, McCoy calls for 'a design toolkit' or 'open architecture' in order to effectively respond to cultural diversity rather than imposing our (modernist, or post-modernist) vision of a final solution.
McCoy's assertion makes Wyman's work particularly relevant.

Wyman (knowingly or unknowingly) used 'tools' or research to ideate, and create a new solution which did not impose a clean, modernist solution. Rather, the solution arrived at is sensitive to the local aesthetics, incorporates iconography, localized symbolism, and, in essence, effectively bridged indigenous Mexican culture with Western culture of the 1960's. Wyman's work for the 68 Olympics exemplifies how cultural human factors, specifically research into indigenous vernacular, is a 'tool' designers can and should use.

More on Wyman at Webesteem.

The move to New York became very real this week. Finding an apartment and giving notice made the move, and transition, feel tangible, and immediate.