February 2009
27 posts
20 Corporate Brand Logo Evolutions: A really nice collection, but nothing we haven’t really seen before.
Typographer Erik Spierkermann’s Typo Tips. Great resource for using typography, but I was especially excited to learn the keyboard shortcut for typographer’s quotes!
WatchElizabeth Gilbert (author of the book Eat, Pray, Love) on the creative genius. Very moving and everyone should watch it.
Dieter Rams’ Ten Commandments of Good Design. Brilliant.
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a...”
– Stanley Kubrick
Naz Hamid on some of the problems with Safari 4. Obviously font rendering is big one for me too. I haven’t downloaded it yet, so we’ll see if this gets resolved.
Khoi Vinh on the Tropicana packaging debacle. He’s absolutely right.
Donald Miller shares about how to write a book. Fairly standard process, but he throws in some personal tips. On another note, I’m really looking forward to his new book due to release later this year, A Million Miles in A Thousand Years.
The Grid System interviews Khoi Vinh.
Apple announces Safari 4. Some of these new features look pretty nice.
Space Miner →
I’ve been loving the blog of former JPG magazine editor Laura Miner. She’s posting some great photography that is a huge source of inspiration!
Quote: “The researchers found support for deeper self-disclosure from bloggers resulting in a range of better social connections. These included things such as a sense of greater social integration, which is how connected we feel to society and our own community of friends and others; an increase in social bonding (our tightly knit, intimate relationships); and social bridging — increasing...
Quote: “I’ll put it in writing: the best motion picture released last year was WALL-E. Like 2001 — which WALL-E pays significant homage to — it wasn’t even nominated for best picture. But it effectively couldn’t be nominated. Instead, WALL-E was nominated for and awarded the prize for “best animated film”.” John Gruber on why WALL-E should have been nominated (and won) for best...
“When you watch a writer on a movie programme tearing up page after page, you...”
– James Dyson, inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner
While browsing Virb, I came across the music of Radical Face and have been listening to it on repeat all weekend. It’s kind of an upbeat Bon Iver with some more electronica influences thrown in with the acoustics. I’m looking forward to hearing more!
