Is it just me, or does that Leopard ad need curly quotes?
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”Jonathan Kozol, non-fiction writer, as quoted by Ideo creative director Paul Bennett in his TED talk, Design is in the details
Lovely letterpressed gift certificates, courtesy of Veer. One of a few giveaways for an internal poster design contest currently underway.
Sick of the automated phone menu? Bookmark gethuman.
This site as viewed with an XO (OLPC) laptop.
New from TypeTrust: Epic. Beautiful.
Phonofone II, essentially a gramaphone for your iPod. “Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone inventively exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibles* (or roughly the maximum volume of laptop speakers).”
““I’ve always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession and degree of specialization that doesn’t appeal to me.””Yvon Chouinard, founder of clothing company Patagonia, as quoted by Dan Cederholm
New Santa Claus Mac/PC ad, in Rankin/Bass style.
Trajan is the Movie Font. “Russell Crowe has co-starred with Trajan three times now.”
From Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ Typographic Gifts for Designers series: Chocolate Movable Type.
Plotting in jQuery. “Drawing on inspiration from Plotr and PlotKit, software developer Ole Laursen wanted to bring the same plotting functionality to jQuery. So he built his own jQuery plugin and called it Flot.”
Punchcut founders Jared Benson and Joe Pemberton recently chaired Typophile Film Fest 4 in San Francisco. Both Brigham Young University alumni, it’s no surprise they turned to BYU’s graphic design program to create the opening titles for the event, the result of which are nothing short of stunning.
What if Microsoft had designed Gmail?
RememberDelaware.com is a well-designed ski+snowboard site with plenty of character, and whose customer support photo is eerily reminiscent of our very own Clifton Labrum.
“I’d rather answer a few dumb questions than put up with a few dumb assumptions.”Aaron Cannon, in reply to my question about whether he tires of people asking him about his blindness
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Give One Get One begins today.