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The University of Michigan’s Human Factors and Ergonomics Society recently announced the winners of their Bad Designs on Campus Contest.

Since these folks are from the engineering department it’s no surprise that many of the submissions were for bad design on North Campus – specifically the Duderstadt Center and Pierpont Commons. I worked in the Duderstadt Center for 4 years so I can personally attest to how frustrating some of the entries really are. I don’t think I ever went to the library stacks area without having to help someone figure out how to move the compact shelving or made it to the bathroom without having the external doors open unnecessarily.

{ link to contest | found via Field Guide }

The Sneeze, about the only “for-fun” blog I still manage to read, has a funny post about using the Domino’s Pizza delivery web order form. I feel like there’s an interface design lesson her, but not sure what it is…

The Great Pizza Orientation Test

Matryoshkus set of six traditional Russian dolls (via notcot)

Binary Watch

Binary Ring (via notcot)

HTML HEAD Sterling Silver Earings

Though I no longer make “art” (yes, I was a weird art school chick) I still love art and now I love libraries. So, here is a collection of where the two intersect.

Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books project

Cara Barer

Brian Dettmer’s carved book series

chotda’s bookshelf organized by color

Mickey Smith’s series of journal spine photographs

Abelardo Morell’s photographic book series

Jonathan Callan

Thomas Allen

My attempt at library related art: “Library Details” flickr set

See also:
cARTalog: University of Iowa Library’s project to purpose their retired card catalog into art and the The Rainbow of Books Flickr Group

Librarian Necklace by brookadelphia

Kern sweatshirt (typography joke) from Veer

Pixelated jewels by mike and maaike

nice_tags T-shirt from the consumating.com folks

13 Book Hacks from LifeHacker. I haven’t tried the 3 library integration tools they mention, but I have used the libX firefox extension (click the link “56 academic and public libraries” to see if there is one for your school) and think it’s pretty useful.