Kit·Blog Notes

So many blogs are crap that the two substantives—blog and crap—will soon be synonymous. But every once in a while you find a post so honest-to-goodness and beautiful that it single-handedly exonerates the whole damn category.

“It’s like casting off the signs of youth to embrace adulthood.” More at Identityworks.

The product of an 8-week helicopter expedition from Hamburg to Cape Town: Eyes Over Africa by Michael Poliza.

Today CEC Bank, the oldest Romanian bank, unveiled its new identity designed by Brandient.

See the press conference video record (link in Romanian, free registration required).

“Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network.” From Vodafone’s press release cited by DF.

“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.

“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?

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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

Actually many more, I think. Billion.

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—.

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