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fast company: apps for the 1%

By alex eben meyer | Published: September 17, 2012

another illustration for farhad manjoo and the lovely folks at fast company. a rising arena of apps are those for sourcing tasks, be it grocery delivery, car service, or putting together furniture. with these apps, the question that is getting asked (and possibly answered) is whether this type of micro service is something that can expand to a greater user base than just the wealthy.

in case you are wondering, the best named of these services is taskrabbit.
art direction: claire eckstrom

fastco: what apps for the upper class mean for the 99%, by farhad manjoo.

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fast company: let 1 trillion data bloom

By alex eben meyer | Published: July 10, 2012

a piece for fast company magazine which looks at big data firms, and specifically how healthcare is using big data to analyze information they had previously been unable to examine. don’t forget to eat your data vegetables. bonus, the writer of this article is farhad manjoo, a regular contributor over at slate. hey farhad, i’m now your official illustrator.
art direction: claire eckstrom

fastco: big changes are ahead for the health care industry, courtesy of big data, by farhad manjoo.


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slate: i ditched google for a week

By alex eben meyer | Published: May 10, 2012

oh farhad, what have you gotten yourself into now? farhad manjoo attempts to quit google for a week. while bing holds up admirably for searching, he finds himself dependent on the other and varied offerings of the ubiquitous tech company.
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slate: i ditched google for a week, farhad manjoo

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slate: draw something

By alex eben meyer | Published: March 21, 2012

the new hot app for iphone/ipad/facebook/android/whathaveyou is draw something, a social pictionary* style game in the vein of words with friends, the latest and greatest way to use your device to scratch your butt. according to the farhad manjoo, the joy comes from the ease of play and lack of rules. according to me, i signed up, started a random game with somebody who drew what were presumably shoes, then drew an arrow pointing at said shoes, and then wrote: ‘goes on feet’.

slate: better than words with friends, by farhad manjoo.
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*i am a bit of a grump about this as i have always hated pictionary.

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slate: the end of the echo chamber

By alex eben meyer | Published: January 19, 2012

a new study run by facebook shows that people on social networks are not just hearing and sharing the same information or what they want to hear. now of course this survey was run by facebook, but interesting all the same.

slate: the end of the echo chamber, by farhad manjoo
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slate: facial-recognition

By alex eben meyer | Published: July 18, 2011

slate: smile, you’re on everyone’s camera, by farhad manjoo.
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slate: will robots steal your job?

By alex eben meyer | Published: April 28, 2011

farhad manjoo starts his investigation into the future of automation, and not just assembly lines, but robots as doctors, writers, teachers and lawyers. notably, he doesn’t mention anything about automated illustrators. i’d like to see johnny 5 come up with the idea of robots chatting at a watercooler, it’s impossible!

slate: will robots steal your job? by farhad manjoo
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slate: you suck, farhad.

By alex eben meyer | Published: March 10, 2011

first and foremost, let me get this out of the way,  i don’t think farhad manjoo sucks.  onward…

for this article, farhad writes about slate’s commenting policy, the problems with anonymous commenting, and his belief that commenting should be transparent with users required to log in using a vetted service. i fully agree that trolls are a problem in commenting, and because of them (well, idiots in general), i mostly don’t bother reading comments. while i don’t think that a commentator has to release their full name, i do feel a commentator’s history, biases and temperament should be reviewable, even if that persona is different from the one on their driver’s license. while everyone has the right to say what they think, they still should be required to say it to a person’s face (or something that constitutes a face on the internoodles).

slate: troll, reveal thyself, by farhad manjoo.

on the art side of things, when i sent the sketches, everyone loved ‘you suck, farhad’, INCLUDING farhad (he writes it in the first paragraph), however, editorial requested the copy on the homepage be the friendlier, ‘you stink.’ a great thing about working with the slaties in that they were perfectly happy with me sending and discussing various copy choices, and even ran ‘you stink, farhad’ on the article page. below are the various alternatives, which i even kept clean for the kiddies. comment away!
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full disclosure: comments are moderated.

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slate: old phone number, new tricks

By alex eben meyer | Published: January 27, 2011

google voice now can port your phone number so all your calls centralized without having to get a new number! well, you sort of need a new number, but people calling you can use your regular number. this illustrator only has one number, so i find this whole thing is a moot.

and while i don’t know for a fact how farhad talks on the phone, i am willing to assume that it looks like EXACTLY like this.
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slate: old phone number, new tricks, farhad manjoo

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slate: how black people use twitter

By alex eben meyer | Published: August 11, 2010

yesterday i did a quick slate illustration for an article titled how black people use twitter, which could have been called hashtags started by black teens, or some less flameworthy title. i woke up to this wonderful email:

subject: A brown bird?
Dude, you are RACIST. I’m calling Jesse Jackson now.

i was pretty entertained, and not sure whether the person who sent the email (anonymously for the most part) was actually offended, sarcastic, or just being an ass. starting out, i figured this article and illustration would probably drum up some conversation, both positive and negative, and while this illustration isn’t going to win any awards for concept, is it offensive? do you, dear reader, find it racist?

slate: how black people use twitter, by farhad manjoo.

while mulling this over and chatting with slate, they sent over this hilarious illustration remix by www.innyvinny.com (check out the rims on that twitterbird!):

sincerely,
your racist illustrator.

p.s. jesse, let’s do lunch!

p.p.s. since you didn’t ask, this is how i look as a twitterbird (full disclosure, i need a haircut):

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