Fill/Stroke.com
Incredible, inventive VW flash site
I spent quite a bit of my Saturday morning exploring the Fox Volzwagen flash site. Definitely worth the load time.
No comments. Posted by tanner in experimentation, interwebs, motion on 22 November 2008.
ObamaBats: 24 True Type Dingbats
Jeff Domke presents ObamaBats.
I’m proud to announce and share the ObamaBats! A collection of 24 high-quality dingbats featuring Barack Obama and various design elements. This collection is completely free for download, upload, distribution, use and modification. Use these dingbats to start creating your own Obama paraphernalia today!
No comments. Posted by tanner in branding, interwebs, politics on 29 October 2008.
Muxtape is back, with a new focus
Muxtape, the ridiculously simple playlist hosting service, mysteriously disappeared a couple of weeks ago, citing “a problem with the RIAA”. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in experimentation, innovation, interwebs, issue 1, music on 29 September 2008.
Last week, a friend pointed me to the blog/portfolio of Mark Boulton. Mark Boulton Design has primarily made small websites for little clients; you know, such as the BBC and ESPN. Now, they’re tackling the infamous drupal.org. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in branding, interwebs on 28 September 2008.
Bzzzpeek “is a collection of animal sounds made by very short people from around the globe. Hear what frogs sound like to Hungarians. (Apparently, Hungarian frogs carry submachine guns.) Hear the world’s spookiest owls. (Japanese owls are especially spooky.) Then move on to the vehicles — cop cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and trains. Best of all, you can submit sound files of your own, and hear your sons and daughters making asses of themselves on the world stage.” (via Very Short List)
This is incredibly entertaining.
2 comments. Posted by tanner in art, interwebs, sound on 22 September 2008.
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in innovation, interwebs on 19 September 2008.
Obama-Biden: targeting youth with erroneous domains
Another example of the Obama campaign’s ability to target youth: MySpace and typos.
In an attempt to visit my least favorite social networking site today, I mistyped and accidentally wandered on over to myspaec.com. I was surprised to see Barack Obama and Joe Biden smiling and looking slightly to the left.
Under normal circumstances, I might be frustrated by this type of advertising. However, in this instance, I think its a rather unique method of attempting to gather interest from a specific population. Well played, sirs.
Though purchasing misspelled domain names is certainly not a new idea, it is an idea I haven’t noticed in mainstream politics before. I’m not convinced the Obama-Biden ticket has anything to do with this initiative; the whois information reveals nothing.
I attempted to contact the domain owner for more information. Who wants to bet I hear back promptly?
1 comment. Posted by tanner in branding, experimentation, interwebs on 16 September 2008.
Adobe has put together a little site where you can complain about Adobe, to Adobe. It’s an interesting way of getting customer feedback. I don’t think it will ever really accomplish anything, but hey, at least all the griping is concentrated, and maybe you can feel better knowing someone else feels just as terribly about Illustrator crashing as you do.
Be sure to check out the top 25 gripes.
Here’s some responses from John Nack of Adobe
No comments. Posted by md in interwebs on 25 August 2008.
Since the original post regarding incspring.com and it’s practices, we got a lot of responses and comments, good and bad, incspring got a new logo (I guess they wanted to brand themselves better, the first time wasn’t right for them. hmm…) and Speakup did an indepth review of similar logo websites.
No comments. Posted by md in branding, interwebs, opinion, writing on 11 August 2008.
I went to Drexel University before I transferred to Arizona State. I was only there for a little less than two years, but I still remember a few of my teachers: A somewhat crazy, but awesome teacher named Mircea Popescu, who had a thick Romanian (I think?) accent, and who reminds me of the professor in The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd. Jack Cliggett, part of the reason I left, because he threatened to fail me for who knows what reason anymore. I ended up passing, but had already made up my mind to leave. A teacher for my color theory class, who during a final review hated my project so much, he would reference it when critiquing the other students “Well, at least its not as bad as his.”
I remember, too, the head of the department, Sandy Stewart, who I had for a branding development class. She reminds me of Paula Scher and was infinitely nice, but scary intimidating too. Whenever I work on a logo, I hear her say something along the lines of “It must work in black and white before it can work at all.” in the back of my head. I remember her letting me go forward with some crazy logo involving a fly wearing glasses, and I remember when I was so flustered during a presentation that I started pronouncing silent letters (I said sub-tull instead of subtle, and felt like an ass) she laughed it off and calmed me down.
And John Langdon, who was just a really decent person, politically active, long-haired, kind teacher who invented really trippy typographic illusions called ambigrams. I enjoyed his classes a lot, and was sad to not get more opportunities to learn with him when I transferred.
It wasn’t until a couple years later, when I’d already left, that I came across his ambigrams in Angels & Demons by Dan Brown.
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5 comments. Posted by md in art, interwebs, typography, writing on 3 August 2008.
