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November 2007 Archives
November 1, 2007
iComplain
“When you give people what they want, they actually complain more.” Weird but true. [Thanks, Iancu.]
November 2, 2007
Balltopia
Giant balls made men feel good about themselves—a dazzling history.
Armenian
“It clunks. It clangs. It has a strange barbaric grandeur”—Counting to ten.
November 5, 2007
Fed up
For the loyal, for the interested, for the lazy: per-post and global comment RSS feeds in every post. To be tweaked a bit during the following few days.
Wiredissimo
Predicting Apple’s future was always an extreme sport for involuntary jackasses. [Via DF]
November 6, 2007
No sweat
Effortlessly jump-start your career: design like Khoi Vinh in five easy steps. No design studies required. Piece of cake!
30x2
At sixty, Mr Spiekermann has the verve of a thirty years old. The effect of information design or typeface design?
November 7, 2007
Esquired
Peace Wall photo went right from this blog into the pages of Esquire Romania, illustrating an article about Russia. Thank you, Raymond.
November 8, 2007
Insult
Word of the day: Microsoftian. Used in contex: here.
Encyclopedic
… And that’s the ultimate, shocking truth about Wikipedia.
Überelevator test
Underconsideration’s Brand New:
“Interbrand. Futurebrand. Corebrand. BrandLogic. Brandient. BrandEquity International. Yes, we get it. You guys do branding.”
Yay, you got it right! Joke aside, when pioneering a specialized service in a fresh market you really need a name like that, trust me.
November 9, 2007
Brandmatography
Brand New York: from Woody Allen to Wolff Olins.
November 10, 2007
Digital vs. analog audio
Analog sounds fat and warm while digital zings cold and crappy, right?
November 12, 2007
View
View from my room, minutes ago — click the thumbnail to enlarge. Alba Iulia, Transylvania.
November 14, 2007
Intelligent design
“God didn’t create the world in 7 days. He goofed off for 6 and then pulled and all-nighter.” Unknown author, a designer probably.
Jots
Brandient: branding gains ground domestically interview in ZF. Thank you, Alina Pahoncia.
November 15, 2007
Alba
Panoramic view from the fortress hill — click the thumbnail to enlarge. Alba Iulia, Transylvania.
Cover-up
A great cover telling a great story, that’s one thing that separates print magazines from web magazines’ mashed look and crummy little thumbs: best magazine covers of 2007. Via DO.
PicLens
Beware flickrittes, PicLens plugin breaks your Safari 3 (3.0.4, actually) installation when upgrading from Mac OS X 10.4.10 to 10.4.11.
November 16, 2007
Lower
“A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep.” Frederic Goudy.
November 17, 2007
X
November 18, 2007
Gullivertising
“Hypothesis: television news programming is mainly a way for advertisers to aggregate viewers by gullibility.” Carlos Yu at Halfway down the Danube.
November 20, 2007
Pirattitude
“A pirate is somebody who is most comfortable when they’re working outside of the existing structure. And pirates only really shine when they have a deep personal attachment to the work they’re doing”.
Absent
Dan –Pilu– Moldovan, Creative Director and Partner of advertising agency Propaganda died last night while shooting a TV commercial. He was 35. May he rest in peace.
November 21, 2007
Wally
London is rebranding its global identity for the first time in five years by commissioning branding agency Saffron to overhaul its consumer, corporate and business branding. This includes the Visit London logo and the Totally London identity. Via BrandRepublic.
November 22, 2007
More room
The internets
Excerpt from a Dotster.com newsletter: “In less than two years more people will access the web from a mobile phone than from a computer.” You got to love the industry experts.
November 23, 2007
Dizzign
November 24, 2007
Unshareable books
John Gruber: “Amazon’s Kindle is going to flop. Or at least I hope it does.” Read why.
November 26, 2007
Ex-glamour
The discreet charm of the old catalogues. Someday we’ll be just as outmoded. Via DO.
November 27, 2007
All-in-one
Unfull
YouTube has full-screen viewing capability — why oh why Flickr has no such thing? By the way, did Flickr add any useful feature lately? Not one?
Wittography
Tongue in cheek mastery: Matt Stuart. Thank you, Iancu.
November 28, 2007
D3/D300 in Romania
Skin — official Nikon importer in Romania — announces D3 and D300 DSLRs launch on Romanian market. Links in Romanian.
November 29, 2007
Oops
Worst IT fuckups of all time. Via Coudal.
None
“I’ve been asked to comment on what effect I think this will have, if any, on book design as we know it. Here goes.
None.” Chip Kidd about Amazon Kindle.