Ran into this vid by Gregory Solenström on the oak nyc blog–it’s 3 months old but it’s dope. I’m a sucker (still) for this sort of animated typography, Akidenz Grotesk, clever motion tracking, and as I no doubt have mentioned, I’m moving to Brooklyn at the end of the month so I’ll leave it at that.
First person to catch me wearing boat shoes can still punch me in the face.
I saw a 728×90 leaderboard banner ad earlier today while I was designing a 728×90 leaderboard banner ad, it said Talk.Text.Time. Ad#3 728×90 in Helvetica Neue Bold, with a see-through mobile phone on it. Needless to say, I clicked on it and it brought me to a site for the Sony Xperia Pureness that reads:
In an increasingly complex world, an innovative phone is honed down to the essentials. Xperia™ Pureness is free from excessive features, leaving an exceptionally simplified mobile experience. Talk. Text. Time.
What with the iPhone and the iPad and such (and my problems with my 3gs right now, you will be hearing about my thoughts about the iPad and the iPhone soon), I was already thinking it might be nice to just have a regular ol’ phone that did the basics.
This might be it. Apparently only sold at a few boutiques, Colette in Paris being one–that’ll give you an idea of what sort of device we’re talking about here. Did I mention it also had a Vertu-like concierge service?
As you may or may not know, I love my iPhone (3gs), it’s my 5th iPhone and after having used BlackBerrys, WindowsMobile, Palm, and Android, I still think the iPhone OS is the best, and it doesn’t hurt that the hardware is super seXXXy. Thing is, to keep it looking sweet, you need a case. I’ve gone through many many cases, my favorite being the miniot iwood, even though it’s the most expensive and most fragile case out of all of them (80 euros, about $120USD), not only because it is so freakishly beautiful, but also because it doesn’t have a big fat lip keeping you from using the full face of the touchscreen, which is the biggest problem with the incase slider cases, which are otherwise beautiful, well-made, and affordable but are unusable because of the gross lip.
Enter Incase’s new perforated case, looks super light and without a big fat poky lip. All over it.
Perforated Snap Case for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G : Incase Product.
This guy did himself in big head mode for Halloween this year. SO AWESOME.
Papercraft Self Portrait – Art Portfolio for Eric Testroete.
I realise that blogging about Dieter Rams is like blogging about water, but I just watched Gary Hustwit’s Objectified again the other day (for like, the 4th time) and was reminded about how much I like his work. Apparently, so do the designers at Apple, have a look at these objects, do they not remind you of the iPod and the iPhone calculator?
Dieter’s 10 guiding design principles:
* Good design is innovative
* Good design makes a product useful
* Good design is aesthetic
* Good design helps us to understand a product
* Good design is unobtrusive
* Good design is honest
* Good design is durable
* Good design is consequent to the last detail
* Good design is concerned with the environment
* Good design is as little design as possible