Everomp: Design Makes the Heart Go Yonder

Posters of Jason Mumm How’d I miss this one before? [simplebits]

Honda Accord gets 63 miles per gallon?! Ford can’t even count that high. Damn.

Barbrook Bible. Graphic design and self-sacrifice.

Samurai film poster. Nice.

Karma’s a bitch, too.

Ringing School College of Art & Design gets a new identity. Being a Florida school with deep ties to the state, I’m a little confused as to why they went with a Chicago-based firm. Regardless, I like the approach of “framing” ideas.

Graphical representation of CEO pay. I’m sure they all give back to the community.

NES Mash-Up. So where’s Duck Hunt?

New Scotch.

Poison seed cure for biofuel? Yeah, just don’t eat ‘em.

Aquafina just tap water. That’s right. While we feel good about buying bottled water, thinking it’s somehow superior…EHHHH, wrong. Can we all buy a water filter already?

Path the Heaven. Better take notes.

Metal Gear Solid 4. Playable demo. Almost as good as the NES version! [Tim]

Lawyer proves in court Income Tax ain’t all there. Holy. Crap.

Abandoned village in Italy. It’s amazing to find something like this in today’s world.

Stop War. We pray.

Self-Destructing Emails? Well, Go-Go Gadget.

Mattson Creative.

Orlando’s new downtown. I worked with the Performing Arts Center on fundraising materials, so I’m quite proud of their accomplishment. Having only lived here two years, I still look at it from distant eyes. Regardless of my thoughts over how tax dollars should be spent, I can honestly say revitalizing downtown is essential for Orlando to become a significant city.

Indy. She’s back.

Rowling reveals more about the Epilogue. Spoiler alert. But you should know this by now.

Man with ‘abnormally small brain’ leads normal life. It’s called the Dandy Walker Syndrome. Isn’t that wonderful?

Blackle. Kind of a weird name, but the idea is simple. Black screens save energy, compared to white. Google, being the dominant gorilla in the room, could save the world huge amounts of energy by doing this. From a design standpoint I don’t like black screens, but under the circumstances I’d be willing to let it go.

Drop the www.

Keeping our paranoia in check, I suddenly feel like a Big Mac and fries.

Beowulf, new movie from Robert Zemeckis. This has been on my radar for over a year. I enjoyed The Polar Express, but the animation fell flet in emotion. Looks like this might just solve it.

Plug n cradle device. Makes sense. I hate fumbling in the dark for my phone’s cord, leading to my phone… and then tripping. Always tripping in the dark.

Making Reddit more Web 2.0. What a bunch of horse crap.

David Bolinsky’s Voyage of a Cell. “This is the Fed Ex guy of the cell.”

The Items We Carry, a Flickr set by Absenter. Time to get real personal with each other.

Obesity map, 1985-2004. Doesn’t anyone just take a fucking walk anymore?

The future’s now, finally! Meet the new spacesuit. Only took 50 years. Apparently astronauts won’t experience muscle deterioration as quickly (a huge problem with longterm space travel).

Is this library real? Yup.

New Orleans NBA All-Star Game logo, 8 months out. I’m not a fan of current sporting logos, but this one draws me in.

Another Company. Beauty outta the Netherlands.

A gallery of book trade labels. Glorious. My favorite.

Best place to get free media? Well, the library, silly.

You Got Some ‘Splaining To Do, another gem by Threadless.

Good Job, Harry

I spent last weekend curled up sprawled out on the couch reading the seventh (and, for those of you living under a literary rock, the last) Harry Potter book. I'm not a hardcore fan in any way. I've read all the books, but I make so claims to be a superior fan. I'm casual in every way. I also appreciate Harry's magical world. I can't talk specifics, but however JK Rowling weaves her world it certainly works well on me.

President Cheney? More like dictator.

“R” is for “grrrrrreat!”

What is your best learning method?

The new, elite American rich. Hey guys, do you realize you can’t take it with you? Just ask the Egyptians. How about giving back a little more? Morons.

Sea Monsters. Ahhhhh!!!

‘Cause I was high. Couldn’t resist the pun. I don’t see a parachute on any of them.

AT&T, reunited again. Leave it to corporate buyouts to reform, bigger and badder than ever.

1,500 inmates + Michael Jackson’s Thriller = ??? Craziest thing I’ve seen all summer.

The Mermen. Surf music meets Explosions in the Sky, maybe? Good stuff.

Bahrain World Trade Center has… well now that’s something.

Computer “solves” checkers. Just like that? Solves checkers? Man, that’s depressing.

Frost on grass. Nature gets more and more amazing the deeper we go.

For the record, not everything is better on the Internet. For instance, Skype. The five people I’ve spoken with over Skype sounded like gnashing teeth through a metal grate. How is this a good thing? Maybe because I’m on a land line? Once they fix a little glitch called “Can’t freaking hear you” I’ll check it out.

White Stripes play one-note concert and cheers erupt. Had any other band attempted this, rioting would have occurred. God bless the White Stripes!

Norman Borlaug. Nobel Peace Prize winner, and an unknown. I’m rather ashamed to have never heard of him.

Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid shows some cojones, waiting for Republicans to actually vote Yes or No. Aren’t they supposed to?!

Lifted. Pixar short. Funny as all heck.

Hope for Lwala.

Lovely window art. Interesting title on that last image.

Geezeo. The latest Web 2.0 thingie. I’m getting pretty tired of Web 2.0 equaling “cute”. Give me some Russian freakin’ Constructivism with some 2.0 back-end. No more Helvetica Rounded. Please.

Wealthiest Americans ever. A superb infographic.

Asahi Beerbot. Beer-pouring robot? Could there be a better reason for the furthering of robot technology?

Your Name On Toast. Mmm, toast. Especially with rasberry jam. [chris]

Solar-powered billboard. Not only a no-brainer, but it powers a kitchen. Could we pah-lease jump on this bandwagon?

iPhone: the Musical. Okay I don’t one anymore.

Interview with John Gall, art director for Vintage and Anchor Books. “…it doesn’t seem appropriate to compare the launch of a new Cormac McCarthy novel with, say, the launch of Ultra Caffiene Free Diet Coke With New Anal Seepage Reducing Splenda.”

Best. Mugs. Ever.

Trunkt. Buying directly from artists. Internet power at its finest.

Web Economy Bullshit Generator. Sad to say, but this could actually work during a business pitch. [marc]

We finally lasso the moon. Jimmy Stewart’d be proud.

“Dad, you sank my battleship!”

75-year-old woman has world’s fastest Internet connection. Maybe she’ll invite me over for tea.

Saul Bass cartoon. That made my morning.

Tim Flach, photographer. His opening page makes me smile. Rarely does Flash do that to me.

iPhone battery down to 80% beyond 400 charges. Okay, somebody missed this detail. Hate to point out a singular negative, but…

Burger King going trans-fat free by 2008. Celebrate by ordering their new Triple Stack, Double Bacon Cheeseburger.

Coke redesigns. Bringing back the old for the better.

To all you social cats out there, gop flock yourselves, 0.9’s released!

Hangover recovery. Salami and butter sandwhich? On the flip side, a new reason to puke.

Zen habits for your to-do list. I’ll be the first to admit I’m great at writing lists, but not the greatest at execution, so this is a welcomed list.

Marcios Imnch. I like the use of a movable background image.

China food and safety head executed. Poor safety checks caused numerous deaths around the world linked to Chinese food, yet this still strikes me as brutal.

Design thinking from Cooper Hewitt and IDEO. Thanks!

New York Times’ new sign and Pentagram’s process.

World by numbers. Is there power in numbers? Looks like it. [do]

iPhone Nano on its way. Like we didn’t see that one coming.

Ollie Kottke, meet the world. World, meet Ollie. Many congrats and best wishes to Jason and kin.

JJ Abrams’ new trailer. What the hell is this? Whatever it is, I’m there. So there. The official site.

Mighty interesting residential building. Just don’t jump too hard.

Guardian Egyptian.

Liveboard. The clock for the (hardcore) baseball fan. Hella cool.

The Boeing 787. That’s a big bird.

Superb commercial. You’ll smile once, watch twice.

Because this is where your old cell phone goes, recycle it instead.

Need a good lawyer? Christ, he’ll scare the jury into awarding him a verdict.

Paperless

Recently we had a job going to press. There wasn't a more elegant way to layout the spreads on each sheet. There was no way around it. A lot of perfectly good paper stock would get thrown out and wasted.

Who owns the media. A list which will most likely get smaller.

PS3 drops to $499. And this is a good deal? Sony, leave me alone with your silliness.

Top players…by numbers. Sounds odd, but pretty interesting. I thought Marino would nab 13 for sure.

Microsoft eats 1b in xBox 360 repairs. Ouch, even by Microsoft standards.

Lenc. Nice shadows.

TMobile offers cool new incentive. iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone…huh? Sorry, I was busy saying “iPhone” over and over for no reason. What were you saying?

FHM Bikini Poster. I want that typeface. Now.

Not the newest kid on the block, but this article on CSS Support in email by CampaignMonitor is a winner.

Device Art. Coming to America?

Malawi man builds windmill to power home. A must-read. This story is amazing. The windmill.

Pay phones on the out. 53% decrease in 7 years. Wow.

YCC:Film Finalists. The answer Team America gives to the question “Are you guys bummed out?” = priceless.

Toilet sign. What exactly are they trying to communicate?

Apple: The Early Years. Lest we forget?

Apple’s Battery Replacement Policy. Hmm, $80 and lose all your data. What a deal!

The only iPhone that matters.

Top 10 iPhone Apps. Always one to buy directly into hype, something slightly useful for the lucky few who own the shiny beast.

What happens when you try cancelling your T-Mobile account for an iPhone? “Was that a yes” LOL, priceless.

Bush commutes Scooter jail time. Because, um, he deserves it?

Old books as sculptures. Beautiful.

A Hero Down

Marvel just killed off Captain America. Those bastards! Burn 'em! Throw away the key! Or applaud them. That's what I do. Comics need to be shaken up.

CNN redesigns…again. More streamlined. Curvier. Seems like a step in the right direction.

Kwik E Marts take over US! For any Simpsons’ fan (and you should be) this is a wet dream come true. Where’s the Duff Beer?

Lucy Daughter of the Devil. [Marc]

"Art is the highest form of hope."

— Gernhard Richter