“Typography Everywhere”
Until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation. Digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users. Since digitization, typography has spread to a wider ranger of applications, appearing on web pages, LCD mobile phone screens, and hand-held video ...
Web Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Designing and programming a website is a time consuming process that sometime gets unbalanced depending on how much influence the sole designer has on its creation. Too much freedom for the designer can sometimes create a website that doesn't have much in common with the actual brand and/or company ...
A Life Lesson Learned from Dolphins
Have you ever wondered how dolphins or some whales can see in the cloudy water where they swim? I recently learned that they use a technique called echolocation which allows them to see without using their eyes. According to http://www.dolphinear.com, "Dolphins (and other toothed whales) can produ ...
Its Big Mac time
McDonald's Marketing has been relentless and, looking back, hilarious over time, cross-marketing not only in all media, but all countries and all ages. I can't imagine anyone being oblivious to McDonald's existence. With over 30,000 restaurants (mostly franchises) in more than 119 countries, servin ...
Typographic Portrait of Steve Jobs
This is the work of Dylan Roscover. A portrait of Steve Jobs entitled "Steven Paul Jobs". A typographic portrait of the man behind Apple using fonts used in Apple Mac computers and Apple products.
This is a typeface-driven design based on the "Here's to the crazy ones" ad campaign from Apple in t ...
USB Hub Watch Design
A watch is a fun gadget to design and found a USB Hub that doubles as a clock or a watch if you prefer big faced watches like I do.
This USB 2.0 compliant 4-port hub features an analog style digital clock and a design that resembles a wristwatch. But, as you can see, it’s a bit too big to be us ...
Web Design | From a Robots Perspective
Everyone knows by now that creating a website requires great skills in several areas depending on what kind of website you are looking to create. A lot of hours is put in to a project and more than often the client oversees the actually work and instead focus entirely on the end product. For them th ...
5 Resources For The Geek In You
When did being a geek become so cool? I remember a decade ago, it was considered offensive to call someone a geek, now it is almost a compliment. Being a geek has transitioned from embarrassing, to mainstream, to cool. Is it because people these days are so technologically smart? Is it because t ...
Creative Stop motion films
I am always fascinated by stop motion films. They are usually loaded with creativity, energy and sooooo much work! I've selected a handful of creative films made by artists, photographers and designers alike. It took many producers several weeks to several months to create and edit these fantastic ...
Unique Accessories For Your Listening Pleasure
Listening to music while working or just relaxing is something that has been a part of the daily routine for majority of people including yours truly. The best part of it is that there are now cool ways to listen to your favorite music and let me start of with the iDream Speaker Pillow.
The i ...
Disposable Gadgets?!
Found some amazing craft art that are truly amazing. Life Size Cardboard Gadgets. By Making things used to be about durability, design was made to last. Now no one expects even their suburban home to be well-built, let alone a phone or camera.
Indeed, in a world of mass-production one could ima ...
South Park | The Website Review Meeting
Few could have dodged the humor and sensational hit show South Park. The hilarious ways they try to...err...be themselves in one way or another have inspired a whole generation of kids throughout the years. I guess the spoofs of South Park must be up at the hundreds of thousands by now, still it nev ...
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?
Felicia Day, known best for her webseries, The Guild, is an insanely creative risk-taker. Her webseries, now sponsored by Microsoft and Xbox Live, just entered its third season. In case you are unfamiliar with it, it is a comedy that makes fun of the massively multiplayer online role playing game ...
Designer gone Street Artist
I found it interesting that Dave Kinsey, a young artist from Southern California, was trained as a designer, designed to be able to afford to paint and now shows his work internationally in gallery s and city streets alike. His hands-on training as a graphic designer, allows him to know how to work ...
Vortex Cannon & other things from Bang!
The BBC have recently launched a new science programme, its kind of a cross between Top Gear and Tomorrows World (for those who remember that...).  Each week they do some cool experiments and generally get to play with science.
A few weeks ago they made a huge vortex cannon to knock over some ...