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Another Great Honda Ad

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Great ad. Great web placement. I love how user interface is entering the mainstream as a design language.

Posted on April 26th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Meat and Lasers

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“Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients: MEAT AND LASERS.”

Posted on April 23rd, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

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This is a shameless plug for Mary-Alice’s new blog about traveling with your dog.

Posted on April 22nd, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Lego vs. Beatles Rock Band

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Lego Rock Band or Beatles Rock Band? The answer is clear. I want Lego Beatles Rock Band.

Posted on April 22nd, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Currency as Building

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I think currency and other governmental design is underappreciated.

Posted on April 22nd, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Cool man. USPS reveals the new Simpsons stamps.

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Cool man. USPS reveals the new Simpsons stamps.

Posted on April 10th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

They’re Beautiful florists have a crush on the Chanel ’09 couture show

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They’re Beautiful florists have a crush on the Chanel ’09 couture show.

Posted on April 10th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Companies not Startups

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“…we need more people wanting to build companies, not startups.”

Posted on March 19th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Detroit as Blank Canvas

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Small and special real estate magnates in Detroit.

Posted on March 19th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Seattle Awards

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Seattle now has its very own startup awards ceremony. Neat!

Posted on March 14th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Hi Res wood type impressions

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I can just hear my letterpress teacher groaning.

Posted on February 18th, 2009 in Interesting  —  1 Comment »

Robots & Calligraphy. So happy together.

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Robots & Calligraphy. So happy together.

Posted on February 18th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Top 10 MMOs of 2008

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Top 10 MMOs of 2008. A couple of surprises.

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Startups Being Cheap

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“Recently the cost-cutting drive reached a new extreme. ‘We drink a lot of coffee,’ says Mr Morin, describing late-night, caffeine-fuelled coding sessions. ‘I used to get the good whole bean stuff from a little cafe and grind it myself. Now we get the big bucket of Folgers.’” [use this link if they ask you to register]

Posted on January 21st, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

The Hofmeister Kink

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“This seemingly inconsequential detail has developed into a key theme of automotive design.”

Posted on January 16th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Ambigram

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I like that modern ambigrams are not just the domain of Dan Brown novels.

Posted on January 12th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

DRM Ineffective

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“The game makers noted that it had almost no difference compared to another game released with DRM, showing that adding the DRM did absolutely nothing to prevent piracy.”

Posted on November 21st, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Quantum of Solace Type

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“The hand crafted typography for the location cards in Quantum of Solace by Tomato.”

Posted on November 20th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

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What the JFM datacenter would probably be like, if we had one.

Posted on November 15th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Special edition Pepsi packaging

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Special edition packaging 110 years of Pepsi.

Posted on November 6th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Women of Watchmen

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The women of Watchmen. The transitions between the original comic and scenes from the film are awesome.

Posted on November 6th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

All Cloud Startup Infrastructure

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“And yet, despite the fact that we have the resources to build out our own footprint, we are choosing to go the other way, and move 100% into the cloud. This decision came after a lot of modeling and some very hard thinking.”

Posted on November 6th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Alternative Band Business Models

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“Rather than going out and signing a record label deal, where the record label basically gets near total control over the band and its works, the band has incorporated itself into a company and raised $100,000 from The Normative Music Company as an investment.”

Posted on November 6th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Monsters Inc. Ride at Tokyo Disneyland

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“Monsters Inc Hide and Seek is the next major Disney attraction, and it will open officially April 15, 2009 at Tokyo Disneyland Tomorrowland. A real E-Ticket with new WDI technological wonders, and more than 75 Audio-Animatronics inside. In fact, since Pirates of Caribbean at DLP or Sinbad Voyages at TDL, no other attraction had been built with so many Audio-Animatronics… No need to say that Disney and more is waiting for its opening…”

Posted on October 30th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

M.U.L.E.

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ZOMG, just when I thought I’d seen everything the internet currently had to offer, this has been around for three years (or so it appears). M.U.L.E. is one of my favorite games ever. I’m almost afraid to play it again for fear of ruining my golden memories. I once asked the guy running the XBox games group at Microsoft to remake this. He agreed it was a good idea, but never acted on my suggestion. He was soon out of a job.

Posted on October 27th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Garamond Powerline

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Garamond Powerline [thx as always kottke]

Posted on October 27th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Star Wars Aesthetic

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Personally, I’ve always thought that the difference between the Star Wars and Star Trek aesthetic was simply the amount of money spent on both sets that look real, and extras to populate them. Star Wars locales looked real and felt like they were filled with realistic numbers of people. It was all about scale. This was in stark contrast to Star Trek where planets looked like some weird pseudo Mount Olympus where 400 people inhabit the entire place.

Posted on October 27th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Stamps by Type Designers

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Stamps by type designers. [thx kottke]

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Star Wars MMO

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“We’re going to allow you to experience the great moments of Star Wars… What are the cool things that you’ve seen in the movies? If you can do it in the movies, we’re trying to do that in the game.”

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 in Interesting  —  1 Comment »

Blog Before-and-Afters

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A visual history of 11 successful blogs. [thx debdu]

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »