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December 16, 2006

Who Is Jonathan Ive?

“Apple is a cult, and Apple’s design team is an even more intense version of a cult” — read Who Is Jonathan Ive? in BusinessWeek.

Podio

Podcasts.ro gets reborn as Podio in a new format and bigger ambitions — with a first podcast featuring Orlando Nicoara chatting about the wild ride of Romanian Internet’s early days.

Dragos, Radu and Cristi, best luck with Podio!

Play films

Fifty NFB animated shorts, including several animation classics at Focus on Animation. Great.

Ive becomes "Sir Ive"

Macworld reports that Apple’s design chief, Brit-born Jonathan Ive, collected his CBE from Her Majesty the Queen in London.

Neko

Japanese have a thing for cats (I count cats in their movies) and Neko is a cat for your Mac’s desktop.

December 18, 2006

Germanos Sans

Germanos retail graphics were redesigned using Comic Sans, I noticed at the Plazza Mall outlet. Horrible.

December 20, 2006

Bond titles

Casino Royale credits sequence graphics “owes to the jagged emblematic graphics of Saul Bass” says Daniel Kleinman, the title designer behind the opening credit sequences for the last five James Bond films. [via Design Observer]

December 21, 2006

New at Pentagram

Did you know Pentagram has a blog? “Pentablog compiles news about Pentagram, its partners, activities and recent projects.” Read New at Pentagram.

Adobe icons

Adobe announced their new “paint chip” application icons philosophy. Designers vociferate on Jason Santa Maria’s blog. Adobe explains.

December 22, 2006

Vista not a rip-off

Windows Vista did not steal UI design nor features from Mac OS X and David Pogue is ready to prove it. (If the link leads you to a different video use Video Search with keyword “Vista”. God I hate Flash!)

Kapitaal

Graphic design is all around us. Watch Studio Smack’s incredible movie Kaapital and wonder what’s the best strategy to cut through the clutter.

December 27, 2006

Omagiu at Colophon2007

Romanian magazine Omagiu is one of the 10 publications invited to exhibit at Colophon2007 in Luxembourg next March. [via magCulture]

Advertising but a channel

“As increasingly the brand consultants control the strategy, the advertisers supply the tactics.” Is advertising becoming just a channel? Read Ideology or policy on The Johnson Banks Thought for the Week.

December 28, 2006

Not Management Consultancy

At noise Between Stations, Victor Lombardi confirms what everyone working with consultants thought, in Is Design The New Management Consultancy? Not Exactly.

December 29, 2006

Chinese "pictorial" style

Don Hong-Oai studied with the famous 104-year-old master, Long Chin-San in Taiwan. Here he learned to work in a Chinese “pictorial” style, using several negatives to compose a picture and perfecting his landscape work. Unspeakably graceful.

December 31, 2006

24th hour

Pedants, don’t forget: Romania joins The European Union at 12 o’clock Brussels time, 1 AM local time. Celebrate accordingly.

About December 2006

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