Everomp: Design Makes the Heart Go Yonder

Paris might go to jail. Will inhabit “lived in” cell previously occupied by Martha Stewart.

Wicked cool effect using CSS. This makes me smile wide.

The Floating City, circa 1979. Forward-thinking, backward-wishing.

Income gap increase most since 1928. By now, they literally roll around in money?

We Feel Fine. Check this out now. Amazing. Click through the navigation.

Untitled. Taking the “graphic” out of “graphic designer”. Instead, let’s insert “graphik”. It’s just, like, you know…cool.

Class and Web Design. Because we need to know why bad design succeeds.

Rebranding King Country.

Sensity. As Neo would say, “Woah.”

5nak. Makes you want to scroll.

Birthday invitation.

Book review for Otl Aicher. One word: Olympics.

After Hours

I recently had lunch with a designer friend. The subject of the pursuit of happiness came up. She's torn as to what exactly she wants to pursue, both in design and as a career. Having many options is both a blessing and a curse. We started discussing the possible reasons why a passionate designer would want to change careers. Inevitably the subject of "corporate design" came up.

Cell phones on a plane? There ain’t no motha’ fuckin’ cell phones on this motha’ fuckin’ plane! [design info]

Wim Crouwel on his design.

Intel’s Box Challenge. Vote for your favorite un-box PC design.

Reef Dram Sandals include a built-in flask for your beverage of choice. Nice.

Spike Press means more poster goodness for all. Yay! [coudal]

One Trick Pony. Gotta get me a belt buckle from their store. [Weightshift]

Nokia Siemens new brand launch. Very swooshy.

Rocky movies summed up in 5 seconds. Ehh-ahh?

What’s the difference? The games.

The real Shrek. Uncanny. He spoke 14 languages!

You know what I miss? The good ol’ days of UFO-conspiracy mid-90’s. Not so much anything else about that time, but I loved me The X-Files. The whole idea behind UFO conspiracies intrigued us all back then. What happened?

Dairy Queen rebrands…slightly. “…a more symmetrical ellipse enhanced with gold and blue curved swishes signifying food and treats.” Bullshit. Gold and blue does not signify food and treats to me. It signifies needless additions to an established brand I had no interest in seeing changed.

Article on Edward Tufte. Read you must.

McNuggets are made of WHAT? That’s disgusting. No more for me.

Miami-Dade Community College chess team owns you. Having attended MDCC for two years, I beat my chest with pride.

Torn poster. Beauty in rips. More rips.

Nintendo donates in a big way. Makes me proud to have always been a Big N supporter, even when they were down and out. This is a good, good thing.

Cell phone usage linked to low fertility. Guys who talk on their cell for over 4 hours a day, start worrying. If you’re wasting 4 hours a day on your phone, chances are you had it coming.

Material World 2 book cover. The unfinished look. Awesome.

Labels. My favorite.

Everywhere

Awhile back, after a trip to Chicago, I wrote about inspiration. It's an interesting subject for me--the way the brain forms ideas out of thin air. It's a pretty amazing ability us mammals have in having creative thought. And in the design business, we're constantly trying to tap into the enigma.

International Poster Gallery. Because you can’t have too many poster galleries.

Logo plagerism and the ensuing arguments over “theft” versus coincidence. [airbag]

Video for Survivalism, NIN’s latest. Are you being watched?

SWSX Web Winners. Best of the best.

Four biggest branding boo-boos. Remember, at the end of the day a brand is only as strong as the company behind it. And I don’t mean in terms of money.

AT&T sues NASCAR over lack of usage of logo. Yeah, sounds strange. Basically, NASCAR (who is sponsored by Nextel, hint hint) refused a new car design utilizing the AT&T logo instead of the existing Cingular brand. Anyone find this insanely funny?

Video of Tom Morello and Co. playing This Land Is Your Land. Unfortunately, the sound quality is low (to be expected at such an event) but listen to Les go on bass!

Books sorted by color. Slightly more interesting than one would assume.

Amazing paper cuts. Makes me want to buy some construction paper and scissors. [lined & unlined]

Currency (coins to be exact) design. It reminds me how easily it is to forget about good design on an item we use every day.

PC Professionell redesigns. Never heard of it before, but I love the grid.

Mathematicians solve a 57 dimensional equation. “The result of the E8 calculation, which contains all the information about E8 and its representations, is 60 gigabytes in size. This is enough to store 45 days of continuous music in MP3-format.”

Amazing unedited fight sequence. I can’t even begin to imagine how difficult this must have been to get right.

Space Invaders wallpaper. What else can I say?

Greek Planet. It’s a small world after all.

Muji. Love it.

Preventing Disasters: The Game? I find this slightly odd.

Why Apple stores work. A brief quote on the idea behind the Apple bar.

TED 2007. Get educated.

Bella Italia. A lovely site.

Hammer + ruler = physics! I had to look twice.

Kid builds fusion reactor. Friends continue to download porn.

Electric bill $0.00? A goal finally within reach.

Sunshine, a new movie by Danny Boyle.

The New Yorker redesigns. Lovely.

What’s new and exciting in today’s economy. Rich getting richer, apparently.

Ever wondered what an entire audience would sound like singing like the Swedish Chef? Them, too.

Iraq not necessarily in a civil war. I actually agree with this. The Pentagon claims the situation is “too complex” to use such simple terminology. Nothing there seems cut-and-dry. Of course I will go as far as to use that term when nothing else works as well.

Stardust imploded. Vegas ain’t about history, it’s about newer, bigger, better.

After watching 300, and enjoying it immensely, thought I’d do a bit more research on the real battle. Go, Sparta.

Marc’s latest creation. Though I doubt I’d be up in time to see it.

Anti-theft coffee cup. Um, okay.

Hate marketers? Make them hate you, too. Surf anonymously.

Laser-etched skateboards. Beautiful.

Centuries-old graffiti. I keep forgetting Europe is where the history’s from.

Alberto Gonzales “made some mistakes.” No shit, Sherlock.

Mud clock. Why the hell not?

Iconic history of iTunes. If it ain’t broke, just tweak it.

Meet the cast of Helvetica. I’ll watch this movie, yet I don’t find the same enthusiasm as some designers over its release. I know it’s a groundbreaking font and all, but…I’d rather watch Borat.

In doing some poster research (browsing) I stumbled across the Silence of the Lambs poster in detail. I never stopped to realize the skull on the moth’s back was made up of female forms. Amazing.

The most profound piece of design I’ve ever seen. By John Maeda, author of the book, Laws of Simplicity. Each letter (D, a, r, f, u, r) represents one life lost.

Halliburton moves headquarters to Dubai. There goes the neighborhood.

How Walt Disney changed (at least Orlando’s) landscape. Mentioned simply because author lives in O-town. Ironically, so much positive is being done currently in downtown Orlando, it’s a shame to see such negative press. However, facts are facts.

Apple Stores generate $4,032 per square foot. Holy crap.

Richard Jeni dies. Self-inflicted gunshot wound. Jesus, I’m in shock. He was my all-time favorite comic, right after Carlin.

Quiznos franchise owner kills himself over business. The evils of a corporate chain? Or simply the risks involved in owning a franchise? Either way, his tale sounds unfair.

Distell. Maps of the code behind Atari 2600 games. Pitfall?

House, the book cover.

Student builds cell phone charger out of hampster wheel. Great idea! [do]

Movie Going

I've noticed, as we all have lately, how more and more movies are spending less and less time in the theatres. Rather, after a couple weeks, and a couple months, a still-fresh movie suddenly finds itself on DVD shelves. What's up with this?

Best. Nametag. Ever.

On Finding a Designer. Interesting write-up on, well, finding a designer via job postings. Go, Cameron, go. [airbag]

Captain America dies. Anyone else find this rather depressing? I mean, read the title again.

Come In. Go Away. A doormat.

“Bloated” maps. Interesting way to show data of the world.

Fox News complete liars. Okay, folks, I think they pretty much get away with anything these days.

Ties between Nazis and politics in the Middle East. Linking Nazi propoganda of WW2 with the Middle East today. Amazing.

Scooter gets busted. “This trial provided a troubling picture of the inner workings of the Bush administration. The testimony unmistakably revealed — at the highest levels of the Bush administration — a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information and a disposition to smear critics of the war in Iraq.”

Disney advertises on…tomatoes? I’m not seeing the value in this one. Is nothing off limits? Can’t wait to see Mickey Mouse on cucumbers.

This is pretty amazing. Ever wonder about all those discount shopping sites advertised in Google? Meet their reality locations. This guy goes around taking photographs of the actual addresses of these shopping sites. It’s got me spooked.

Rainbow concentrate. Does Starburst make the flavor?

“…a crappy little sketch can be so much better than the most beautifully taken photograph.”

Kottke on the (RED) campaign and why the initial profits haven’t been as large as hoped. In a culture of major debt and little saving, it’s no wonder we don’t understand how to truly donate.

Some examples of lovely transit signage from London. A different kind of Depot.

Rubik’s Cube + Pixel Art = Lots of spare time needed.

Home Girls Potato Chips. Words just can’t express…

Josef Müller-Brockman posters. It’s all about the grid.

The Breathing Earth. It took about 200 births to glance through the map.

The dashed line.

I love the navigation system here.

More on the dictator behind the movie, The Last King of Scotland.

100 year-old man fights off attackers with… wicked kung fu.

Exxon Secrets. Something wicked this way comes.

Logo design history. A list of famous marks and their backgrounds.

Bono’s diversifying? In what way does this benefit his efforts in Africa? [airbag]

"Art is the highest form of hope."

— Gernhard Richter