March 2009
25 posts
How to Submit to the Wooster Collective Creative... →
The Wooster Collective is taking submissions info to be in their creative database.“If you’re an artist interested in being included, please download the attached form, fill it out, and email it…
The Sliding House by dRMM →
The Sliding House by dRMM – http://www.drmm.co.uk/ via Inhabitat
Sony eReader taps into Google’s extensive E-Book... →
Outdoing the Amazon Kindle in sheer volume (currently at 250,000+ books), Sony’s new deal with Google gives them access to over half a million classics and other open domain books. “Since 2004,…
Flight of the Conchords Fan Posters →
Flight of the Conchords, one of my favorite new comedy shows in the last few years, recently held a “Conchords Really Arty Poster” contest. Uppercase picked some of their favorites (pictured),…
Batman Icon/Logo Mutation Video →
Batman has been around for a long, long time (May, 1939 to be exact), and over the years he’s had quite a few updates made to his appearance and brand. This 2:23 video set to the tune of U2’s “
SMS Business Cards through Contxts →
New web site, contxts.com, seeks to ditch the traditional 3” x 2” card for an invisible txt swap. According to their new service, “By using SMS, built into every mobile phone, you can easily and…
Monsters vs. Aliens Gets a Federal Bailout (sort... →
It’s sort of a trickle down thing, but here’s the report from NY Mag: “Last week, DreamWorks Animation worried investors with the announcement that fewer than half of the theaters slated to…
Sci Fi's switch to Syfy death watch? →
Having already been compared to the failed Tropicana redesign, Sci Fi’s brand transition to Syfy is under the microscope. “The channel should have been spending the week celebrating the series…
Louise Fili's new web site →
Acclaimed typographer and designer, Louise Fili, launches her new site complete with extensive portfolio, books, and a new blog.
Typographic Illustration by Craig Ward →
I’m not sure, but I think this piece was done for the Economist.
Clean water = Good health, poster for Togo by... →
Designer Nathanaël Hamon created a simple screenprinted PSA poster for a local village in Togo. “The screenprinted posters were given to schools, the hospital, the
aids clinic, the water…
Wacom Nextbeat DJ Console →
Having already gone through at least 3 Wacom Intuos tablets, needless to say—I’m a big fan. The Nextbeat seems like an odd addition to their family of products, but a great one nonetheless. DJs…
Hacking the brain to store more memory →
Forget Mozart, plugging into wireless signals from a PDA could one day boost your memory.
“Researchers have found a telltale mental signature that predicts whether an experience will be…
Another newspaper goes digital: Seattle Daily goes... →
From the press release: “SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER TO BECOME LARGEST DAILY NEWSPAPER TO SWITCH TO AN ALL-DIGITAL MODEL
NEW YORK, March 16, 2009— Hearst Corporation announced today that the…
The Top 10 Books People Most Likely Lie About... →
According to a survey by a pro-reading advocacy group in the UK, here are the top 10 books people lie about having read:
1. 1984 by George Orwell (42%)
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (31%)
3….
Burger King’s ‘Whopper Bar’ →
Burger King launches a new kind of restaurant complete with an open kitchen and your choice of toppings.“The Burger King venture will offer Whoppers, Double Whoppers, and Steakhouse XT…
A portrait of the real Shakespeare? →
The Guardian reports on what may be the only portrait of Shakespeare ever made during his lifetime.
Crispin, Porter + Bogusky: A love-hate... →
Love them or hate them, CP+B still seems to get the job done. Creativity mag says that “the agency is unrivalled in the amount and the intensity of antipathy it arouses”, and yet they continue to…
The 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America →
“24/7 Wall St. has created a list of the 10 major daily papers that are most likely to fold or shutter their print operations and only publish online. The properties were chosen on the basis of the…
The Nothing Office is made entirely of Cardboard →
Dutch designers Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg contructed their Amsterdam “Nothing Office” almost entirely out of heavy duty cardboard—walls, signage, beams, tables, shelves, stairs and…
90 Years of Bauhaus →
Architect Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus school signified a step toward a better world through design. As the Bauhaus movement celebrates its 90th anniversary, exhibitions globally celebrate the…
Who buys art these days anyway? →
The NY Times covers the ups and downs of the global art market in this lengthy article.