Geek-tastic!
And now for something completely Star Wars.
Logobama
I’m not telling you who to vote for. This is not a campaign post. This is pure marketing interest. As designers, do we ever think when designing a logo for our clients of all the different ways that logo will be used? One can never really predict how far the logo might go.
Around the Fruit Bowl
Paul: How can the bananas be brown and green?
Steve: They start as green and go straight to black. It’s God’s little joke.
Jackie: I think it’s our fruit supplier’s little joke.
Paul: God IS our fruit supplier, Jackie.
(It might just be me, but I can’t stop smiling at the content of this conversation … or maybe you had to be there. I’m glad I was!)
The first horizontal scrolling blog in the history of the Internet
Who says scrolling horizontally is a bad thing? Check it out….
The PC guy from the Mac commercials
If you’re not already a fan of the excellent radio show “This American Life”, one of the recent shows features a bit by the actor who plays the PC in the Mac/PC commercials that I’m sure many of us are fans of. He has some funny stories of his accidental fame.
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from [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000822.html] The top six lists of cliched programming
The 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming
Top 10 Signs Your Software Project is Doomed
Top 10 Tips for Working at Microsoft (or Anywhere Else)
The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
Top 10 Things Ten Years of Professional Software Development Has Taught Me
How Small is Milwaukee?
Well low and behold … the AIGA Halloween Party 2002 … and who am I in this photo with (I’m the alien thing) … none other than our latest addition CHRISTOPHER (with his lady)! Funny! Who knew?
Web Designer Turns Traffic Junkie*
Or A post about Ze Frank (who Debbie Millman predicts will be the next Jim Carrey.)
You may remember him from his popular How to Dance Properly viral video in 2001; a video meant to be seen only by 17 of his friends.
If you haven’t seen his year long video podcast, The Show with Ze Frank, go straight to your iTunes now and download an episode. (During off peak hours of course…. like after 6pm or Sid will get you!) The show began with the March 17, 2006 episode and ended exactly one year later. And if you’re a fan, the last show is a tear jerker. Or skip to his archived page The Show with Ze Frank :: Popular Shows.
You can read about his show Wiki-style here.
You can see all sorts of things Ze Frank here.
By the way, my personal favorite is Red Alert (not from one of his recent shows.) If you haven’t seen this, you really must. Especially if you are a designer.
*from a recent LA Times article.