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?

$983.63USD at colette.fr

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.

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

via: DesignApplause | Dieter rams. 10 design principles..

RT @cacophonyart Wow, I can’t believe this find. All back issues of Dwell from Oct 00-Nov 08 that you can read online. http://tiny.cc/cdMmL (via @saymayday)

Also, look at our kid DJ Greyboy on the cover of the July/August 2007 issue: (while you’re at it, you can read the whole damn thing)

Did you know??! Did you know that I spend most a lot of time not as a dj and bmx/snowboard gadabout, but as a *gasp* designer/art director?  I spend a lot of time thinking about not only *groan* storytelling and branding and communication but also usability and human factors and whatnot.

I saw Objectified this weekend, Gary Hustwit’s paean to the heroes of industrial design, and one of the bits that I found interesting was Jonathan Ive,  SVP of Industrial Design at Apple talking about how as a designer, you spend a lot of time obsessing about why things are the way they are, sort of looking at objects (or anything) and thinking about all the decisions that had to be made to make that object the way it is–this automagically explained all the chatter in my head when I look at or experience something that is good, bad, or mediocre. How the hell did ths come to be like this? If it’s good, how did the stars align so that something so perfect came to being? If it’s bad, what kind of fucking band of moronic syphylitic monkeys came together and thought it would be a good idea to bring this to market/existence/my doorstep? Hearing ol’ Jonny talk about design and the nature of designers in that way made me feel like I wasn’t alone. Anyway, go see the movie, it’s good.

Anyway… plucky designer Dustin Curtis appreantly is affected in the same way by things things and had such a terrible experience with American Airlines and aa.com that he came up with a diatribe in the form of an open letter to the airline, along with a suggestion or three on how to fix things.

Dear American Airlines | Dustin Curtis.

via @seth_weisfeld

I uploaded this graphic up to zazzle last year just because I thought it would be fun to wear.  This of course is an homage to the experimental jetset John Paul George Ringo t-shirt. People have been asking where I got it, and this drink is the jam (so to speak) for a lot of people, so find out how to get one for your own damn self and see the actual shirt on actual girls after the jump.

I plan on uploading more stuff soon, if you poke around, you’ll see the Smoovepreme a la Supreme box graphic tee up there as well. Get them here.