“Open mailbox,” haha! See the movie.

Via DF.

Dan Iavorszky of Laptop Gear announces the availability of Redmaloo (Germany) and Booq (USA) premium products (links in Romanian).

Not too shabby!

“Good designers are a dime a dozen, he said. Coming up with a great design solution is the easy part. The hard part, he said, is getting the client to accept the solution.” Mad Men.

Wondered about the strange illustrations on Adobe’s CS2 Suite packaging? They’re x-rays. Easy. But a plane?!?

Between 12 (tomorrow) and 15 July I’ll be in Cluj Napoca—problem is, I ran out of photo film. Any idea whether I can find some 35mm Fuji Velvia—I really like that film—to buy in Cluj? Thank you.

It’s a good time today to remember Al, Laura Ries and the gems of their wisdom.

The marketing consultants predicted [1, 2, 3, 4] a year ago:

• “The iPhone will do a lot of things but it will do nothing well. And that is why it is destined for failure” and
• “If the iPod is the biggest success of the 21st century then iPhone is likely to be the biggest flop of the 21st century.”

Disqualifying.

Bumbuț uses public transportation.

25 new classic book covers from the past 25 years.

And the wonderful 25books.com Bildschöne Bücher was based on.

Adobe Reader 9 is out and people [1, 2, 3, 4] think it triumphantly sucks.

And, sice we’re here, take a look at UnexpectedlyQuit, a blog of Adobe-related error messages.

Here we go again—only this time it’s a logo for Bucharest.

So—who’s responsible for this one? Who commissioned, approved and paid and who delivered the horror?

Journalists might want to look into this.

“Perhaps, but I don’t know if it has the intestinal fortitude.” Apple’s Avie Tevanian answers to the question whether Microsoft can re-architect Windows from the ground-up.

Via DF.

“Everybody becomes so completely cynical about the election process that voter turnout drops to 2 percent (families and relatives of prospective politicians) until finally the “democratic process” is abandoned in favour of a lottery system. Everything immediately improves.” Brian Eno

See the rest of the list of unthinkable futures.

The dead art of book cover is so not dead: have a look at the winners and shortlist of the 2008 Penguin Design Award.

Via Kottke.

Our chewing gum-collecting guys running around disguised into dust devils on the surface of Mars.

Kit·blog reported about this long ago, people.

I’ll be in Prague for the day — any great spots I should not miss?

“Terrorists taking pictures is a quintessential detail in any good movie.” Or how Hollywood fucks up.

Via DF.

iPhone3G. Coming to Romania.

Here:

• Apple Gazette [autorefresh]
• Ars Technica
• CNN Fortune
• CNet News
• Engadget
• Gizmodo [autorefresh]
• Mac Observer [autorefresh]
• MacDailyNews [autorefresh]
• MacNN [autorefresh]
• MacRumors [autorefresh]
• Macworld
• TUAW
• TechCrunch
• TechzTalk

P.S. Blog entry № 500.

Run DMC, run, the Russians are coming. Brilliant!

Thanks, Iancu.

“Al Gore funds development of the open internet: 1991–1993.” Cool.

Here. Play with the thing, you’ll like it.

Via Derek Powazek.

Don’t talk to him before he’s had his coffee.

Via Daring Fireball.

I remember. When the instant messaging bunch?

Thanks, Iancu.

When Star Wars stuff starts happening for real, it means that you’re kinda old.

60 Seconds in the Life of an Armchair, 12 Seconds After I Leave the Room. at the inimitable Textism. And the original 60 Seconds in the Life of—.

Actually many more, I think. Billion.

“The U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people.” Read Paper money unfair to blind.

“This is a uniquely 21st Century branding story—the reinvention of a government-owned bureaucracy, to compete in the marketplace with some of the world’s sharpest marketers.” Read the review on Identityworks.

“France Telecom’s Orange said in a one-sentence statement that it will sell the handset in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and African markets later this year.”—see the Associated Press release. Via Brandly yours.

Lovemarks, the book: “aimed at six-year-olds”—rarely does bullshit get exposed with such clarity and wit. Forget brands. What you need is an intimate bond with your dandruff shampoo. Read it.

“By choosing to compete on design instead of technology alone, Apple seems to have found a loophole in the Innovator’s Dilemma.” Why Doesn’t Apple Face The Innovator’s Dilemma?

“It seems that with admirable loyalty, management returned to Wally Olins, whose 1988 team designed Akzo’s ‘Reaching Man.’ Wally’s post-Wolff Olins firm is Saffron.” Read more at Identityworks.