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Jeep
October 30th, 2007Brilliant advertising for Jeep by Bates Y&R, Copenhagen, Denmark. I love simple but powerful advertising like this.
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Jack Crossing
October 30th, 2007Jack is still in school and he’s already and excellent designer. His work is top notch.
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iMac & Leopard
October 29th, 2007Well after 4 great years my first gen 17in Powerbook G4 had died. The drive has crapped out and I am also getting some weird errors that might be from the logic board. It was definitely time for a new machine so I picked up a 24in Intel iMac and let me tell you… this thing fucking rocks! I did want a quad Mac Pro with a massive cinema display but then I saw this one and that changed. This machine is more than capable of running all the graphic apps I need without a hiccup. The new Apple keyboard is also a work of art on it’s own. Love it.
I also installed the new version of OS X and it is pretty impressive. Time Machine is nice but the UI design is just plain awful. Not sure what they were thinking with this one but I don’t see what’s the deal about the new look of the dock. Sure it’s not amazing but it’s also not as bad as everyone is making it out to be. The one issue I have with the dock are the small glowing orbs that indicate a running app. You can barely see them. There other visual issue is the transparency of the main menu at the top. Some one remind me why I need to see what is behind the menu? One new feature that is great… when you press command + shift + 4 to take a selected screenshot, you get the pixel dimensions next to the cursor and you can also press the space bar to move the selection. Very cool.
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BIG Typography Showcase
October 25th, 2007I love this article by Smash Magazine about sites that use large typography. I personally love big bold type. It creates large positive and negative spaces that transform into shapes of their own. Working with large type becomes more than just setting a block of copy at 12 points. It becomes the design.
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The Vignellis
October 25th, 2007
Photo: Dean Kaufman
Great article by New York Magazine on Massimo and Lella Vignelli and their contributions to the world of design. I own an original copy of the 1972 NYC subway map designed by Massimo and I must say it is one of the most well designed pieces I’ve ever seen. It’s functional and beautiful all at once unlike the current map.
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Design Supremo
October 23rd, 2007
by David Carvalho
Design Supremo is a brand new website, a creative hub, a design playground where people who appreciate that special touch can come and buy original, often limited edition objects of desire that are totally exclusive to the website. Design Supremo provides a commercial outlet for designers, helping with the manufacture and marketing of their products, and making them exclusively available on the website.
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Build
October 19th, 2007Build has just launched a new site and URL with some brand spanking new work.
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Apple sued over iPod storage capacity
October 18th, 2007This is just getting to be ridiculous. Montreal law student David Bitton is suing Apple because the company’s 8GB iPod nano offers 7.45GB of actual storage capacity, rather than the full 8GB as advertised. Everyone knows that you never get the absolute full capacity of a hard drive, whether it’s a laptop or an iPod. Someone needs to end these ridiculous suits against Apple. Wake up people!!!
Bitton, you suck!
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Air Canada
October 17th, 2007Beautiful poster by Dan Reisinger done in the late 70’s which was featured in an old issue of Graphis magazine. I wish designers would still do work like this.
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Third Party Applications on the iPhone
October 17th, 2007In his most recent public letter on Apple.com, Steve Jobs has officially announced third-party iPhone and iPod touch applications as well as a software development kit (SDK) that will be ready by February. This is great news! Third party apps on the iPhone will catapult it to a level that other phones can only dream of. This is when the real fun begins.
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February.
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Arrogance and Humility
October 16th, 2007
Illustration by Louise Ma
Here’s a thought provoking article over at A Brief Message by Clay Shirky about some of the problems designers have to face.
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Offf NYC Ticket Pricing
October 16th, 2007The ticket pricing for the Offf event in NYC have been posted. 3 day ticket for $80. Not too shabby.
3 day Ticket for Offf New York 2007.
OFFF New York 2007
November 2nd, 3rd, 4th 2007
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York
General Pass — 3 Days Ticket: $80*
* Presale service costs not included