October 2007
41 posts
Nobody's Angel
This is one of a series of Nobody’s Angel T-Shirts. (via Computerlove)
Karlstad Energy: Recycled ad
Give this newspaper a new life. Recycle it.
This ad was on the cover of the local newspapers in the City of Karlstad, it was also made as a spread. We used letters from well known, mainly, swedish newspapers logos. The bodycopy is about that newspapers can be recycled up to six times and speculates in a newspapers reincarnation. ”Not to scare you but this newspaper could have been a xxxxxxxn in...
How to be a better client
The design agencyID29 have produced a fun guide on ‘How to be a better client’. Full guide can be dowloaded here. Certainly a different way of showing your agency creds (via CreativeSocial)
LINK. Auto line-height: a jQuery plugin for...
Seems to work pretty damned well. Via Clagnut. ∞ (via Unstoppable Robot Ninja)
Gigapan Project Brings Gigapixel Panoramas to the...
The Web is getting more visually immersive all the time. For a peak at what a gigapixel pannoramic image looks like on the Web check out Gigapan, a project at Carnegie Mellon University. Using a rotating stand that it sells for $279, anyone can use their digital camera to take panoramic pictures stitched together from multiple shots. You can zoom in and zoom out with amazing clarity, and really...
JibJab’s Hilarious Video Greeting Cards
So JibJab got funded today. We got that. What else are those crazy guys up to in the past 20 minutes? Well, they’ve been making some more viral videos, this time for greeting cards.
The new feature on JibJab is called Sendables, and it offers a bunch of video greeting cards that you can customize and send to friends. JibJab worked with several storytellers and artists to create about...
CleanCSS.com - For Optimizing CSS Codes
What it does Are you a web designer that would like to optimize your CSS codes? CleanCSS.com is a tool for web designers that helps them optimize their CSS codes. CCS is short foe Cascading Style Sheets which is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in markup language or webpage written in HTML, or XHTML. CSS can define the color, font, layout, and other...
TasteBook Launches With Lots Of Help From Condé...
New startup TasteBook launches on Wednesday morning, with a lot of help from Condé Nast: an investment from their Internet unit, CondéNet as well as a partnership with Epicurious, a Condé Nast property.
TasteBook is a service that lets users take their favorite recipes from partner sites (starting with Epicurious) and create printed cookbooks that are delivered to them and/or friends. Users can...
Ouija Board art show
Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica is hosting a show of ouija boards and ouija-inspired work by more than a dozen Pop Surrealist artists. “Talking Board Show” includes spooky-beautiful pieces by the likes of David Stoupakis, Carrie Ann Baade, and Meats Meier. Seen here at very top, Christopher Owen’s “Goober’s Ghost Chasing Kit,” and, above, Travis...
Two-Hulk Halloween
Hulk smash puny trick-or-treaters!
Alek says:
After wasps and bats, I thought you might get a chuckle out of this. A guy was selling a giant Hulk inflatable on eBay and asked permission to use the images from my site. After thanking him for being polite enough to ask (my stuff is scraped all the time), we chatted a bit and I ended up buying it. The shipping cost was half of the sale price! ...
The Future of the Music Video
The Future of the Music Video Some of you may have already seen this, some of you may have not. This could quite possibly be the future of the music video. Music provided by Arcade Fire … (via nice to meet you)
Colbert outpolling some actual candidates
Stephen Colbert isn’t yet in the top tier of presidential candidates. But then, neither are several elected officials who’ve been seriously campaigning for months for their party’s presidential nomination — and the TV-show cut-up is running ahead of them. An item by Chris Cillizza on The Fix, his politics blog for the Washington Post, cites new polling data that shows Colbert pulling 2.3 percent...
Internal marketing
In the middle of its biggest growth spurt ever, just before Christmas, Apple fired 800 of its employees for stealing. They were caught grabbing $100 rebates on the iPhones Apple had given them for free.
The impact of this sort of action is pure marketing. It sends a powerful message to every other employee (and eventually the public). Most organizations would waffle, or hesitate at the scale of...
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of many brilliant people. “We are educating people out of their creativity,”...
Random over on itsnicethat.com
“RANDOM” over on itsnicethat.com (via SwissMiss)
Drink Responsibly
Oh, how I do miss Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert on The Daily Show.
∞ (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
crusher
Crusher: Finally an alternative for creating online invitations. You can even create a video invitation. No membership required for you or your guests. No ad-banners. YAY!
(via HOW)
(via SwissMiss)
Humiliating one’s pet is now big business
According to the Chicago Tribune, more than 7 percent of us will be dressing up our pets in costumes for Halloween. In other news, more than 7 percent of us should be prevented from reproducing. No one who drops $20 on a witch costume for his or her dog should be allowed to have kids. That may sound extreme, but what other response is there to news that “humanizing accessories,” aka pet clothes,...
Monday Inspiration: Extreme Colors
The beginning of the week is always tough. Coffee breaks are tedious. The aftermath of weekend is still evident. And conversations with your colleagues aren’t that enlightening. Yet there is always a number of tasks you need to get done until the end of the day. To spark your imagination and help you to get through monday’s creativity block we are going to provide you every monday with “Monday...
Free Fonts Of The Month: Moderna, Mido, Liberation
Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.
This month we can present you a dozen of them. It’s not quite clear if one is legally...
Treesquirrel
Type: Backgrounds, Logos
(via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
Audi R8
This is the new Audi R8 site from GT. It’s all about time, engineering and beauty.
(via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
Design: When Simplicity Complicates...
I stumbled upon this while surfing my normal “kick off the week with design” RSS feeds. It’s from Art Lebedev Studios and is a little over the top at ~20 inches long. There’s no way that one would be able… (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
What single book is the best introduction to your...
brilliant Ask Metafilter thread showcases the diversity of the community (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
God's always get the best vacation homes.
The 10 Most Amazing Temples in the World. (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
History of religion in 90 seconds
The history of religion, in 90 seconds. Via Boing Boing. (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
100 Greatest Discoveries
100 Greatest Discoveries - In-
Astronomy Watch now
Biology Watch now
Genetics Watch now
Medicine Watch now
Source: todaynow (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
Shock Your Trick-or-Treaters
“I am not liable for any damages incurred through the use of these instructions. Even though it is very hard to hurt people with this, it may freak them out and get you into a legal mess. Use at your own risk!” (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
Coolest Halloween costume ever
Building a Halloween costume that makes the children cry. Coolest. Costume. Ever. Having thrown down the gauntlet, I expect BB will post something else shortly. (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
Monty Python: Are You Suggesting Coconuts Migrate?
Sketch from Monty Python’s The Holy Grail. (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
Disappearing Ink, Self-Destructing Email
Times Online: “Scientists have unveiled a new kind of ‘ink’ that disappears from a page 24 hours after printing, allowing paper to be re-used. When a document is printed on the reusable paper, the text initially appears similar to normal printed text – only in a shade of dark purple, rather than black. Eight hours later, however, the image is a shadow of its former self...
Leaks: Comcast's Official Angry Customer Policy
This is an internal Comcast document entitled, “So you have an angry customer?” It’s a guide for technical support and customer service representatives for when unhappy customers call. It’s actually very good, full of plain talk and ways to think about the situation to help solve and defuse it. Apparently none of the Comcast customer service reps our readers complain about...
Catalog Choice
Splendid idea: a non-profit, free service whose objective is to reduce the 19 billion paper catalogs that are produced and mailed annually to US consumers.
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(via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
How Creativity is Killing the Culture
“We become a nation of navel-gazing dreamy-eyed so-called creatives who no longer consider it worthwhile to roll up their sleeves and get down to hard work to get a job done, or, even worse, who no longer deem it worth their time to bother checking out any of the stuff that anyone else has made.” Michael Fallon’s How Creativity Is Killing the Culture. (via Jones’ shared...
Observed : Push-Button House
Push-button architecture comes to New York. (Thanks to Michael Brenner.) More here. [JH]… (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
Focus Ireland
Credits:
Product: Focus Ireland
Agency: Chemistry
Creatives: Mike Garner (Creative Director)
Nicole Sykes (Art Director)
Anne Fleming (Copywriter)
Country: Ireland
Other Credits: Typography - Keith Walsh
(via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
DIY ringlight photography
DIY Photography shows how to use a computer monitor and a piece of cardboard with holes cut in a circular pattern as a cheap ringlight. Here’s a Flickr set of neat photos taken with the ringlight. Link (via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
Thinking With Type
Book Review
If you own not a single typography-related book, then reserve a place on your bookshelf for Thinking With Type. Ellen Lupton’s Thinking With Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is to physics.
Even those who already know something about typography will benefit from this title. It’s a great “propaganda” piece that you can loan to unbelieving friends and...
Dove Cartoons
(via Jones’ shared items in Google Reader)
Simple Advice for Better Presentations
While riffling through Carmine Gallo’s just-published book, FIRE THEM UP, I landed upon some super-smart advice for delivering a more effective presentation. Gallo writes …
A client once asked me, “How can I be more like Steve Job in my next presentation?”
“It’s simple,” I explained. “Tell your listeners why you’re excited about your...