VanderLans’ Joshua Tree
Rudy VanderLans just sent me his beautiful third book about the musicians and places of Southern California. Following photographic essays, texts and CDs about Captain Beefheart and Van Dyke Parks, ‘Joshua Tree‘ focuses on Gram Parsons, legendary 60s singer-songwriter, ex-The Byrds, ex-Flying Burrito Bros., and performer of what he called "Cosmic American Music". Parsons died, […]
Supermarket layout and IA
Simon gave me this map (100kb) of Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury’s supermarket layout. It’s lovely – and could help illustrate how supermarkets drive traffic around the shop. A recent article at View Source noted that it’s very tricky to do this ‘herding’ online. Download the map by clicking here (100kb).
Can’t Beat the Boots
More incredible 'bootlegs' emerge (confusing name for those of us 25+, where 'bootleg' = illegally recording a gig). This meta-genre arguably includes The Avalanches' Ibiza mix but definitely two great Osymyso mixes doing the rounds – one makes the best pub quiz question ever; the other more dance-oriented (findable via AudioGalaxy). Best of all are […]
DVD interface design lagging behind
here we go again …
Making Pages at Amazon.co.uk
at last, UK gets US’ best feature
AmmoCity fires its last blanks
falco! and not before time.
Finnish City to adopt Linux
wired finns of turku like penguins?
Genres, record shops and information architecture
Spotted in a Brisbane record shop, 2008 An early thought, learning from record stores I posted the following to SIGIA-L in November 2001 (Ed. This piece was originally published at cityofsound.com on January 3, 2002.) a) Perhaps music genres are really only any use as an ‘introductory handshake’; a starting point in the conversation … as an initial […]
Journal: Genres, Record Shops and IA
I posted this to SIGIA-L in November 2001: a) Perhaps music genres are really only any use as an 'introductory handshake'; a starting point in the conversation … as an initial contact point to enable users to do a 'first pass' over the music content you have. From there on in, users quickly leave genres […]
About Dan Hill / City of Sound
This site is largely archived. My latest writing is available at Medium—but all writing will return here, edited and polished, someday. Biography for Dan HillBritish. Born Zürich, 1970. Based in Melbourne, AU (previously, SE, UK, IT, FI, AU, UK.) Dan Hill is a designer, urbanist, educator and experienced leader at the intersection of design, […]