Articles by: Allen

Civic Tech Design 101 for the Next Generation of Tech Talent Code for San Francisco is a community space where volunteers network, experiment, explore new skills, job-seek and build projects to serve community needs. The Dev/Mission Fellowship began as a pilot program in 2018 to see if the C4SF volunteer […]

I am part of a San Francisco Brigade team that has been partnering with SFHIP for almost a year now on a data visualization project that looks at alcohol licenses in San Francisco, specifically those establishments that sell alcohol to be sold off premise. Before any mapping or visualization could […]

I have always wanted to start an agency called “GIANT LOGO!”. It would be a client’s dream come true. We would do only one thing, but do it well. Yes, just the logo, nice and big. How big, well, billboard size. So, you can imagine my consternation to see Yahoo!’s […]

It took a little longer than I expected, but Video Droid, my local video store that closed last year, was finally replaced with a gym. The epic Tower Records in my old neighborhood in NYC’s Village was replaced with some kind of gym. Ditto, the Barnes & Noble a few […]

Tropicana has taken a lot of heat for the dull redesign it attempted last year. It was generic and reminded me of Metamucil packaging. This isn’t the first time Tropicana has alienated consumers. I’ve always been a champion of Tropic Ana. The juice giant slowly euthanized her in the eighties. […]

It’s not like I didn’t see it coming. It still hurts though. Our local video store is closing.