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The Sony Bravia spot you haven’t seen (probably) – watch it. Made for Egypt after balls, paint and bunnies.
A couple of nice recent examples of motion design: Clif Bar 2 Mile Challenge (bonus: it’s a great idea) and Stella Artois. Both throwbacks to the progenitors of the style, MK12
Last but not least, a great read that suggests climate change issues look a lot like design problems. Which means designers can make a difference – read it for yourself.
Semantic markup. So what? – this is the clearest case for semantic markup I’ve seen in a while. The gist is, write your HTML to reflect the structure of your content. Let’s say your page is viewed without stylesheets (i.e. a mobile browser). It should be just as clear and user-friendly in that environment as it would be in any modern browser. Easy peasy.
Social Network Exhaustion – asks the question, what’s the point of social networking social if you’re not socializing? Maybe networking, socially is a better moniker.
Virtual friendship and the New Narcissim – aka more Facebook navel-gazing. It’s a long term paper-ish read — if you’ve ever seen or used a social networking site, you can skip the first half — but the article raises some interesting points.
The age of the slide show – there are so many good ways to get your ideas out into the world these days… what are you waiting for? ~ via Zeus Jones
The Meaning of Service Design – excerpts of my favorite thought:
…the push to define “service design” seemed increasingly meaningless. …Defining disciplines lacks value. Instead, we should ask ourselves, ‘What is the RESULT of service design? What industries does it touch? What is its deeper purpose?”
— swap “service design” with graphic design, web design, marketing, etc. and you have something to ponder for a while. ~ via Adaptive Path
Some good advice from Paul Arden, an ex-creative director from Saatchi ~ via AP (again)
If you use CSS in any capacity and want to make your life infinitely easier, do your bad self a favor and check out BlueprintCSS. There’s even a grid generator that makes it hard not to love… assuming you’re the type who can comfortably use “CSS” and “love” in a single sentence.
Cameron’s posted a free preview of his soon-to-be-released book, Mobile Web Design. If you’re like me and you can learn a few things after spending 5 minutes reading these little morsels from the book, you’ll want to keep a credit card handy on August 28th.
Lovely little retro Mac OS WordPress theme
Internet advertising is going to be a big deal. And keep your eyes open for something called “Outdoor”. </sarcasm>
Blueprint CSS – another CSS framework (think Yahoo’s UI Grids), but this one is based on the design and development work at the Lawrence Journal-World, so it’s very focused on designers’ needs with a flexible grid, predefined typography, print styles, etc. What’s a CSS framework? It basically takes a lot of the pain out of CSS development by giving you a pre-tested and pre-coded set of files, allowing you to focus on designing your site rather than fixing the inevitable browser bugs (i.e., IE).
Branding works! – in a somewhat disturbing study, researchers discovered that any food wrapped in McDonald’s packaging was more appealing to 3 – 5 year-olds than food in plain wrappers… even McDonald’s food in plain wrappers.
Someone from Sony is Twittering the shoot for the latest Bravia spot.
Flickr’s adding video – details are sketchy, but it’s interesting to think about how this could change the Flickr experience…
** update ** a little more Flickr news of note; they’ve redesigned their upload page and it’s the bees knees.
I like this shirt simply because they use Bello — a font I love even though I still haven’t found a place for it in any of my projects. Someday.
Oh, and those Bluetooth things look ridiculous.
The regular reader of this blog may notice a slight change in the design. That’s due to the new design, dubbed ‘monsterism’, which debuted today. I’ve had this idea swimming around in my head since February, and thanks to a recent holiday and vacation day, I finally had time to put my ideas to pixels.
Feed subscribers should be none the wiser, but you might want to drop by the site to keep yourself in the know.
I know there’s a bug or two to work on, but let me know if you see anything really odd.
Now back to my regular intermittent blogging schedule.