Remember the other day when I was talking about Halloween costumes as the mark of a great product? Well, this is along those same lines.
Brilliant way to re-use those old 1984 Macs which truly have no practical purpose these days. Want to build one yourself? Check out the tutorial, with more photos.
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FINALLY New York is catching on the to the demands of tourists and Gothamists alike.
The demand: Some way-finding device placed at the top of subway entrances so people can (re)orient themselves when entering a strange neighborhood.
The result: A pilot scheme to place full-colour decals on the sidewalk indicating the compass directions, as well [...]
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Excellent ad from BBDO Dusseldorf. I love the European ads that feature zero copy of any kind. Just a logo in the corner. In a way they’re like puzzles, where we, the viewers, have to figure it out.
In this case, they didn’t say a word, and yet tell the tale of how inferior the [...]
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HOW magazine just wrapped the judging for their annual design competition(s). As usual, judges have waded through a cavernous room packed to the rafters with design, and amid the noise and haste emerged a few trends. According to Editor Bryn Mooth:
… some of the trends we’ve seen repeatedly in recent years seem to be on [...]
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Oy, this is about to be a long conversation, isn’t it? Well, not really. This time around I’m not going to debate myself and wax intellectual about my chosen profession — instead, here’s a mini documentary about Graphic Design and its always-ambiguous definition.
And here’s another, shorter clip from CBS about Typography and Font Design. This one [...]
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In a somewhat unorthodox move, Apple last week contacted 18-year-old British student Nick Haley about an 30-second spot he made for the new iPod touch. At first, it all seemed like a joke:
“I was sitting on the bus and I got this e-mail on my phone,” Mr. Haley, a native of Warwick, England, said in [...]
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You know you’ve created a great product when people build and wear it as a halloween costume:
Yes, Apple has a fanatical fan base, but this is a sign of our culture that brands can penetrate the collective mind so quickly and powerfully to evoke crime. Yes, these animated displays are the actual iPhone displays found [...]
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