Kit·Blog Notes

Here we go again—only this time it’s a logo for Bucharest.

So—who’s responsible for this one? Who commissioned, approved and paid and who delivered the horror?

Journalists might want to look into this.

Adobe Reader 9 is out and people [1, 2, 3, 4] think it triumphantly sucks.

And, sice we’re here, take a look at UnexpectedlyQuit, a blog of Adobe-related error messages.

25 new classic book covers from the past 25 years.

And the wonderful 25books.com Bildschöne Bücher was based on.

Bumbuț uses public transportation.

It’s a good time today to remember Al, Laura Ries and the gems of their wisdom.

The marketing consultants predicted [1, 2, 3, 4] a year ago:

• “The iPhone will do a lot of things but it will do nothing well. And that is why it is destined for failure” and
• “If the iPod is the biggest success of the 21st century then iPhone is likely to be the biggest flop of the 21st century.”

Disqualifying.

Between 12 (tomorrow) and 15 July I’ll be in Cluj Napoca—problem is, I ran out of photo film. Any idea whether I can find some 35mm Fuji Velvia—I really like that film—to buy in Cluj? Thank you.

Wondered about the strange illustrations on Adobe’s CS2 Suite packaging? They’re x-rays. Easy. But a plane?!?

“Good designers are a dime a dozen, he said. Coming up with a great design solution is the easy part. The hard part, he said, is getting the client to accept the solution.” Mad Men.

Dan Iavorszky of Laptop Gear announces the availability of Redmaloo (Germany) and Booq (USA) premium products (links in Romanian).

Not too shabby!

“Open mailbox,” haha! See the movie.

Via DF.

“This is Steve Jobs, you think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.” Steve Jobs in a telephone call to Joe Nocera. He’s fine, though.

Via DF.

There are subjects and subjects for films. And then there are the subjects for Oliver Stone films. W. Ain’t too early for this?

House of Cards: an experimental music video shot without cameras.

“Do typographers exert some extraordinary control of the pen that laypersons don’t? Does a typographer’s handwriting influence the typefaces they produce?”

Have a look.