It started with this article on NY Times, titled “Win, Lose, Draw: The Great Subway Map Wars”. The writer talked about John Tauranac’s latest design for the NYC subway map. Mr. Tauranac, the article reported, used to work for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and chaired the committee that gave birth to the 1979 [...]

The official birthday for Iridesco is January 3rd, 2003. About a week before that, Danny and I were deciding the name for our soon-to-be company over AIM. We both threw out a bunch of words and phrases, and here’s a partial list:

muse, wind up (after The Wind Up Bird Chronicles), swivel, hairdo, square melons, [...]