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Yesterday the post on Woody Allen’s titles got linked long and wide, from Kottke to Daring Fireball, Design Observer to Quipsologies and Subtraction, Metafilter to Waxy, and The Morning News to La Repubblica. Over 10k unique readers in a day. Thank you, folks.
P.S. Boing Boing and Typophile, too.
DesignAndDesign features each day two designs chosen from graphic, packaging and product design submissions received daily from a large scope of international designers. Submit your own work.
Charles Baldwin on biohazard symbol development: three-sided, easily stenciled and striking enough that it would be remembered. Via Creative Bits.
Adobe discontinues Adobe Stock Photos because “it was just not as compelling as we thought it was going to be.” Via John Nack.
Brancusi was possibly the most important Romanian artist of all time. Yet both websites—brancusi.com and brancusi.ro—dedicated to him exude bad taste and sheer incompetence. A shame.
Peruse his 20 maxims, find out what he learned in his life so far.
Absolutely hilarious yet totally freaky translation from PR-speak to English of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s company-wide memo regarding the Microsoft takeover bid. Gruber-style.
FirstShowing: Wall-E Meets a Vacuum. Wait until June 27th for the rest. Via Cameron.
End of chapter in photographic art: Polaroid to exit instant film as demand goes digital. Via LL.
Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Issue: reenacting Hitchcock.
I have a personal question for web masters, blog owners—what’s your policy regarding hotlinking? Do you ignore the ill-mannered or ban their ass? I see a significant increase in the number of images hotlinked from this blog and I’m in doubt…
“Rob Machin, co-partner of English & Pocket has taken over and created E&P Associates.” Thank you, Dan.
A glorious world of user-generated content and its wonderful inhabitants: The Cut-and-Paste Personality.
“If there’s a default color that signals acceptability and inoffensiveness, it᾿s blue.” Khoi Vinh, on thirty blue icons.
First Photoshop icon: a tiny shop. Via DF.
Selling social gratification by the letter: The Big Word Project. And yes, I bought one.
“A big warm kiss, like a shot from a revolver, and like the psychoanalyst’s couch.” Cartier-Bresson on how he thought of the Leica.
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