March 2012
Hugo by Scorcese
Hugo is an interesting film (for those who have not seen it). Like The Artist, it is really about the history of early filmmaking. There are some great French posters in the train station and Dali having coffee with James Joyce while Django Reinhardt plays with a band in the background. When one takes a film history class, Georges Méliès really sets the tone for all movies made since. The sequence...
February 2012
A New Pinterest Logo: Design Notes from Michael &...
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Last Friday we updated the official Pinterest logo! When first designing Pinterest, we wanted a scripty font to contrast with our boxy pinboards. We chose Bello Script. While we thought it was decent, we’d always been itching for something a bit more distinctive.
To help us out, I contacted Michael Deal. I’ve always LOVED Michael’s work, which ranges from apparel to infographics...
B2B apps and mobile web attracting more investment... →
Research finds a third of companies planning to launch four or more mobile projects in the next 18 months
from guardian.co.uk
“Unfortunately, the schools have become incredibly data-driven, which at times...”
– Alison Epstein teacher - NYTimes.com
Ace Jet 170 →
Richard Weston of Thought Collective has an interesting blog called Ace Jet 170.
Graphic Design Museum blog →
The blog of the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, The Netherlands.
Shepard Fairey enters guilty plea in criminal case... →
The LA Times reports the artist settled with AP on the image out of court. This is a guilty plea “to one count of criminal contempt for destroying documents, manufacturing evidence and other misconduct in his case involving his “Hope” poster of Barack Obama.”
He faces prison time and/or a fine up to $5000.
The horror in Homs - Channel 4 News (UK) →
Best on location combat video journalism report I have seen yet from Syria. By French photographer Mani.
Kern And Burn →
A Publication About Design Entrepreneurship
Apple’s Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like the... →
I sure hope we don’t loose the use of many valuable professional design programs because of this!
Herbert Matter: The Syllabus →
The Guggenheim museum has many books up now for free on its site. This page highlights books Matter worked on.
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? →
Diamonds are abundant, like any commodity. But advertising and a bit of social engineering changed that.
“… N. W. Ayer suggested that through a well-orchestrated advertising and public-relations campaign it could have a significant impact on the “social attitudes of the public at large and thereby channel American spending toward larger and more expensive diamonds instead of “competitive...
How Can We Identify “Good Teaching”? →
“Teaching is too complex to be fully captured by a test score. Even Eric Hanushek, the economist who pioneered the idea of using tests to compare teachers, says no single measure can do teaching justice. “I think a good teacher has a multitude of skills and has figured out how to balance all kinds of things,” he says. “[Teaching] is much more complicated than the researchers and the educational...
“If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?”
– Howard Behar
“The better you write, the higher you go in Ogilvy & Mather. People who think...”
– September 1982 memo from David Ogilvy to his employees.
10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy | Brain Pickings
The Scar Project →
Portraits of young breast cancer survivors by fashion photographer David Day.
Moby Los Angeles Architecture Blog →
Secret FBI file on Steve Jobs released through... →
Done for tech work he did for government and later appointment for export council.
No surprises but interesting.
Lucian Bernhard Speaks! →
Says Steve Heller
Shape Type, the letter shaping game →
Another type design game. This one is bezier curves. Use that shift key!
Scale of the Universe 2012 →
A nice slider based info-graphic on the scale of things. The illustrations are hokey but the concept is good.
Steven Heller, Debbie Millman and Alice Twemlow on... →
Facebook Users Ask, ‘Where's Our Cut?’ →
Indeed. But maybe $150-$200 a year for regular users. Lurkers, nothing. Once a month posters: $50.