Here at The Open Planning Project, we are currently looking to add to our talented design team.  If you're a web designer with visual design talent, rock-solid production skills, and a strong intuition for user experience, we want to hear from you.  Download the full job description. Life is good at TOPP -- we work on really cool projects and have an amazing team, plus nice perks like five weeks paid vacation and lunch every day.  We're a "dot-org": a new kind of non-profit that feels like a dot-com startup.  If you're interested in working with us, let us know.

Elizabeth Press over at Streetfilms has been producing awesome stop-motion animations recently. The latest: Diverter. This short video shows how diverters can be used to redirect traffic flow and make intersections more friendly for pedestrians and cyclists.

This is a great follow-up to Clarence Eckerson's epic Berkeley Bike Boulevards video, showing some of these ideas in practice. Elizabeth has also done stop motion films on chicanes and raised crosswalks.

Over the past two years, I've redesigned this website about 5 times, but never finished. Talk about frustrating. Eventually, I realized that I was getting nowhere, and that instead of a redesign, what I really needed was an undesign. So that's what I did. Welcome to wrkng -1.0, my first undesign. Lately I've been getting the blogger's itch (is that like athlete's foot?), so this undesign is more blog-oriented. Maybe one day I'll get around to making an Actual Design, but I have a feeling this will suffice for a while. If you like it, you can download the Undesign Wordpress theme. As you can see it's pretty simple, and there are some known shortcomings: no support for pages (in terms of navigation), and support for tags but not categories. Basically, what you see here and nothing more. Enjoy!

Here at The Open Planning Project, we are currently looking to add to our talented design team.  If you're a web designer with visual design talent, rock-solid production skills, and a strong intuition for user experience, we want to hear from you.  Download the full job description. Life is good at TOPP -- we work on really cool projects and have an amazing team, plus nice perks like five weeks paid vacation and lunch every day.  We're a "dot-org": a new kind of non-profit that feels like a dot-com startup.  If you're interested in working with us, let us know.

Elizabeth Press over at Streetfilms has been producing awesome stop-motion animations recently. The latest: Diverter. This short video shows how diverters can be used to redirect traffic flow and make intersections more friendly for pedestrians and cyclists.

This is a great follow-up to Clarence Eckerson's epic Berkeley Bike Boulevards video, showing some of these ideas in practice. Elizabeth has also done stop motion films on chicanes and raised crosswalks.

Over the past two years, I've redesigned this website about 5 times, but never finished. Talk about frustrating. Eventually, I realized that I was getting nowhere, and that instead of a redesign, what I really needed was an undesign. So that's what I did. Welcome to wrkng -1.0, my first undesign. Lately I've been getting the blogger's itch (is that like athlete's foot?), so this undesign is more blog-oriented. Maybe one day I'll get around to making an Actual Design, but I have a feeling this will suffice for a while. If you like it, you can download the Undesign Wordpress theme. As you can see it's pretty simple, and there are some known shortcomings: no support for pages (in terms of navigation), and support for tags but not categories. Basically, what you see here and nothing more. Enjoy!