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.
“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.
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.
Fifty NFB animated shorts, including several animation classics at Focus on Animation. Great.
Macworld reports that Apple’s design chief, Brit-born Jonathan Ive, collected his CBE from Her Majesty the Queen in London.
Japanese have a thing for cats (I count cats in their movies) and Neko is a cat for your Mac’s desktop.
Germanos retail graphics were redesigned using Comic Sans, I noticed at the Plazza Mall outlet. Horrible.
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]
Did you know Pentagram has a blog? “Pentablog compiles news about Pentagram, its partners, activities and recent projects.” Read New at Pentagram.
Adobe announced their new “paint chip” application icons philosophy. Designers vociferate on Jason Santa Maria’s blog. Adobe explains.
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!)
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.
Romanian magazine Omagiu is one of the 10 publications invited to exhibit at Colophon2007 in Luxembourg next March. [via magCulture]
“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.
At noise Between Stations, Victor Lombardi confirms what everyone working with consultants thought, in Is Design The New Management Consultancy? Not Exactly.
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.
Pedants, don’t forget: Romania joins The European Union at 12 o’clock Brussels time, 1 AM local time. Celebrate accordingly.
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