Here’s a short little film about how Comic Sans, the font you love to hate, was created. What are your thoughts on Comic Sans? Are we the design community overreacting to its overuse?
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I shouldn’t have eaten that Filet-o-Fish
In a perverse, if not accurate, sign of the times, there is a new trend in New York: bankers, traders, and other Wall St. types are eating at McDonald’s to save money!
Following the shenanigans in the banking and finance sector, we can’t fault these fellas for trying to be [...]
// a tale of New York, brands & branding
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At this moment, many brands are trying to find ways out of the recession hole which seems to be biting off bigger and bigger chunks out our economy. Maybe they should try new logos?
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Well, maybe not.
// a tale of brands & branding, national identities
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Pepsi, my new favourite brand at which to lob grenades, (sorry Microsoft), has released a new spot charting the evolution of their product as it travels through the generations of Americans. The point, clearly, is to show that Pepsi endures — it transcends generations, trends, music, fashion, or politics. And to be fair, the spot [...]
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This may be a small touchpoint of greater happenings, but whitehouse.gov was changed at noon today. Out with the old, in with the new.
PS, what do you think of the design for whitehouse.gov? Pretty sharp for a government site, methinks. I wonder if the team behind that is on the White House Communications payroll or [...]
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With the US Presidential Inauguration only hours away, this might be a good moment to reflect on a trend that is becoming more and more apparent in the world of design and advertising — people are copying Obama! The next great hope for America is fast-becoming the face to launch a thousand shirts.
We knew it would [...]
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Today I spotted a something clever. Like the flat lightbulbs, LaCie’s new flat cables capitalise on an obviously, but somehow-overlooked, notion of industrial design: flatness.
These colour-coded computer cables are designed to create order, by folding otherwise chaotic cords into one another on their commute to the back of the computer. The colours determine the different [...]
// a tale of computers & gadgets, design: product
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