Ok now I’m sold on the new thumbnail layout in iTunes 8.
“Do not use your text editor for tasksHow to be a nerd.
other than editing text.”
“Tap’d NY is a bottled water for the new age: an honest and local alternative for all New Yorkers. We purify and bottle New York City’s famous tap water, leaving out the malarkey and far journey included in other bottled waters.” Ah, the honesty tactic.
Watching a HD music channel the other night, I stumbled upon some random UK music festival that featured tons of bands I’ve never heard of, with prolly 30,000 people singing to every one of them. These guys were there, and was a rare gem in that mess of UK love. Paolo Nutini, singing a catchy tune about how much he loves new shoes (and it’s a true story). Apparently this guy’s been around for a while, but it’s news to me. Regardless, I can dig.
This is slightly old news, but it’s still sounding fresh over here where I’m from. Hip hop producer Amplive, known in my book for his work with Del the Funky Homosapien (best rap name ever), remixed a few tracks from our darling Radiohead’s In Rainbows, and got permission from Radiohead to release it free, yo. You can download Rainydayz Remixes here and take a peek for yourselfz. Thanks to Kurt for the hookupz.
Your grandaddy and mine, Gilbert Lee – not from Tokyo, as previously thought, has launched AROUND SHIRTS – a sweet collection of hand-drawn, water-color-designed, screen-printed tshirts. Each shirt features the name of a rad city that Gilbert wasn’t born in – Beijing, London, LA, etc. No seriouz, the shirts are awesome and his site has some nice little hand-drawn touches that make it awesome.
Also please note, the photo above may or may not be the real Gilbert Lee.
Armin is digging this new HP logo, but I’m pretty baffled at why. The shading is anything but subtle, and the glowing orb and lighting on the HP seems logistically impossible. Wouldn’t the glow from the orb (can an orb glow from the inside?) reflect on the shiny HP? It’s cliche, easy, and about 10 years too late. Maybe if it were spinning, I might feel a bit different..
Matt Brett launches his new do. Call me a girl, but pink is in right now, and I’m not afraid to love it. Nice chocolates too, and lots of nice little touches. Matt’s always been reliable for great design insight and plenty of the gaming nerdery I’ve been known to indulge in.
Jamie Wilkinson chats about his internet fame course at the Parsons New School for Design in New York City, where he grades his students based on how famous they become during the semester. (via The Graphic Student).
case study
I am my own worst client. Designing for yourself is always an interesting exercise, and I find that not only am I increasingly more difficult to work with, but lately the process is taking longer than ever. It may be just as awkward as a doctor operating on himself, or a hair dresser cutting her own hair, or a baby changing her own diaper. Our process for rebuilding Northtemple was about as exasperating. Here’s how we did it.
I’m settled in today for a day of writing and analysis, and I need some good music. This weekend I’ve been on a Stadium Arcadium kick, and my recent tastes have varied from Blackalicious to Vampire Weekend.
What are you listening to? What you got? Link it up.
The Diver’s View – a New York Times interactive piece with diver Thomas Finchum describing the view from the 10-meter platform in Beijing. Not only are the photos breathtaking, but the piece is well designed and produced, and different than the other ho-hum Olympic coverage you tend to see. What a great way to put the viewer into the action.
Love this. Maybe I need to quit making websites and just focus on posters.
ISO50’s poster for an upcoming Tycho show. You can never blame him for being too broad with design elements (nature, motion, and overexposed color permeate his catalog), but he always finds a way to make each new work fresh and inspiring.
You can imagine the client meeting for the mint.com redesign – “I want gobs of web 2.0. No! Web 3.0! Shadows, fadients, reflections, bevels, handwriting, huge fonts, huger buttons, glassy Apple effects, the brightest green and the brightest orange you can find, and plants everywhere.”
This is about as hard to look at as Blinksale..
“The point of the 4-day work week is about doing less work. It’s not about 4 10-hour days for the magical 40-hour work week. It’s about 4 normalish 8-hour days for the new and improved 32-hour work week. The numbers are just used to illustrate a point. Results, not hours, are what matter, but working longer hours doesn’t translate to better results.”Jason Fried nails it again. Emphasis: results are what matter.
