July 2010
This Is It (Your Soul) by Hothouse Flowers on... →
This is it!
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The missing link
A huge discussion about the lack of a “real web design” application at JSM’s blog. A subject that’s close to the heart of anyone juggling several applications in their design process, but also one that has people pull in different directions mostly because they a) either understand design and development in their own way or/and b) follow various workflows.
Take a look at...
listening to "Eagles Of Death Metal - I Only Want... →
.. and that’s that.
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“If Helvetica is Julia Roberts - pretty enough - then Univers is Uma Thurman -...”
– BBC News - Do typefaces really matter?
Before Vodafone got their own typeface, they were using Helvetica and doing work for them I had to use it for years. One may suspect that my dislike is based on overdosing, but I doubt. Glad I’m not the only one thinking this way.
“That love which is blind is no love, that love which shuts its eyes to the...”
– Letters of Note: What makes you think I hate the British?
“Where’s your compost?” is one of the first questions you should ask upon being...”
– Compost | Organic Peas And Orderly Queues
Ha ha. Ha. Ha. This reminded me, but it’s not worth telling.
Please vote for me... →
herrkaschke
Please, vote for him! He’s not good with embedding flash in Tumblr, but he kicks ass as a producer and I swear a kitten will die if you don’t vote for him!
listening to Keys to the Kingdom by UNKLE →
listening to "Jim White - Christmas Day" →
Woke up with this in my head.
Still Waters by Jim White →
This made me whole again.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree, Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree, All several sins, all used in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, ‘Guilty! Guilty!’ I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity...
listening to "UNKLE - Hold My Hand" →
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listening to "Queensryche video - →
First Queensryche song I ever heard. Only back then I didn’t know it was them. Crank it up!
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Stinky business
Recently I’ve been following the blog on Alice In Chains’s website. First it was to check how their gig in Sofia went, but then I kept returning mostly because it was so entertaining.
Apparently penned by a crew member going by the name of Baldy, it tells of the band’s road life and vividly describes the places and people they — or rather — he sees. It’s very...
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“If we accorded rights for every clever act, and removed them for every stupid...”
– Are Octopuses Smart? § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
Top Secret America →
A two-year investigation by The Washington Post into the intelligence and counterterrorist agencies completely hidden from public view. bmdesign
“One thing the Politics.ie post overlooked was the salaries of the two colossi...”
– Meet Europe’s highest paid politician « Gerry Feehily – Europhrenia
That’s somewhat more than Obama’s 400K but hey, look at all the great improvements to our lives they are bringing — surely worth each penny.
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“If you look out the window as a human being at nature; all of nature is...”
– Stephen Fry (via mappeal)
Well yes. Nature has the advantage of being much ahead of us time-wise so it creates stuff through fitting it, painfully slowly, over time and in harmony. We are in a hurry because we don’t have that time.
Google Internet Stats →
This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.
“There are some things you should not do in Kandahar: you should not spend too...”
– Whateverland
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“On May 16 the Zoological Society of London released a report suggesting that...”
– In Defense of Difference § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
UNKLE – Restless (feat. Josh Homme) →
I rather like this. I think we have an ear worm right here.
"Most of the women said the Kraft packaging didn't...
Exactly!
The observation is correct and I have been observing a steady trend in food package design towards concepts that don’t speak the language of what’s inside.
The author of the article sees a conflict between “design that pleases” and “design that works”, and I see no logic in this separation. There would be logic if design was solely an exercise in...
