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On Spymaster’s virality

What started as a crazy idea I had because I’m now not-so-secretly-obsessed with superspy films and the luxury aesthetics of the Craig-era James Bond is currently battling Google Wave for the top spot on Twitter’s trending topics. By just about every metric I know, Spymaster, a game I built with my colleagues at iList, has become a wild overnight success. Read more…

Latest Musings

The myth of the Moleskine

The Moleskine’s cachet is comparable only to that of the Apple computer in creative circles; many creative-types have been lured into appeasing their fantasies of writing down creative thoughts in the same pads that recorded the legendary writings of travel writer Bruce Chatwin and author Ernest Hemingway. Read more…

Design can’t save us

There’s a common theme in design circles of the ability of design to save failing products. Can design save our flagging sales? Can design save an industry crippled by a recession? At some point in the near future, we’re most likely going to be asking if design can save our very souls. Read more…

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Eston Bond is a 24-year-old interaction designer currently working for Fox Entertainment Group. He splits his time between LA and SF.
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Latest Project

Melange 0.1

A PHP5-based, fully modular, standalone activity stream engine built during SXSW Interactive 2008 to be a base for hackers and developers, powering the activity stream on estonbond.com. The Mélange lifestream engine exists as a framework for activity aggregation of any type — just write your own logger class and off you go.
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Et Cetera

Loren Feldman: My Thoughts On Techcrunch And Daniel Brusilovsky

I love you, Brusilovsky, but Loren Feldman is right about a lot of this scene otherwise.

The Grand Disappointment

As if that needed any further evidence, Apple’s iPad presentation and President Obama’s first State of the Union address last Wednesday marked the preliminary culmination of an obvious trend: disappointment as a widespread sentiment and cultural subtext at the dawn of this young decade.