Yes, I am that person, the one who went at 5 to go wait in line for a new iPad. Well, it was closer to 6, but there was a line, though I didn’t actually have any problems getting one. The worst was waiting until the next day (post CV/Resp exam) to open it. It’s definitely a nice little piece of design, I can’t believe that there’s enough room inside it to actually be a minicomputer.

In non-ipad-gushing “news”, I’ve been working on lots of design stuff as of late (hence the lack of updates) and some fun kitchen and bathroom updates that I will post photos of!

On Design Sponge I saw this wonderful Ampersand ID Chart by Douglas Wilson. I. Must. Have. It. It is the perfect combination of my love of typography (and ampersands) and it’s a Snellen chart! (for checking vision)

Unfortunately it’s currently sold out, but I supposed I’ll just have to keep checking back or scour the internet to find one.

I must say, these toys speak to both my inner science/med nerd as well as my love of odd stuffed animals (yes, I do have almost all of the giant microbes). There’s a whole series of psychiatric patient “cuddletoys” all from the German toymaker Parapluesch.

This isn’t exactly new, in fact I uploaded it to my portfolio a couple weeks ago. My school’s journal was due for a little bit of a facelift, so I reworked the layout a bit to streamline it (previously it had a 1pt stroke line around all of the text on every page). You might also recognize the eye from earlier this summer (being the summer, the editors were unfortunately short on available images for the cover, we’re hoping to recruit more for the next issue).

A slightly tweaked version from before, I wanted to limit the number of colours to make the design more affordable. I also changed the ECG trace on the front so that it’s actually one that would be generated by a pacemaker. The back is also a specific trace, but I’ll let people try to figure that out.

One of my very good friends (Hi Kait!) is participating in her second MS Bike Tour this month. Being a good neuroscience grad, her team’s name is homunculus. The homunculus is a sort of cartoon where the features of the little man are proportional to their representation in the brain, to boot it was characterized by Wilder Penfield, a Canadian! (and the doctor who helped found the Montreal Neurological Institute)

Penfield’s sensory and motor homunculi

Kait wanted something she could stencil onto her team shirts, so I did this simple little homunculus riding a bicycle (the bicycle was harder to get right than the homunculus). I’ll hopefully get some photos of her and her team wearing the shirts to post later!

SPONSOR KAIT’S TEAM!

MS is a pretty devastating disease, and is very prevalent in Canada, so if you want to donate to the MS society of Canada, sponsor a bike team, or bike yourself, please check out their website!