Fill/Stroke.com
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.
I found this site to be interesting. Quick, but thought provoking.
No comments. Posted by md in interwebs on 31 July 2008.
Dapper Pipes: Aggregating your job search.
What’s that you say? Dapper pipes sounds like fancy plumbing and you want nothing to do with this article now? Well, give it a second.
With how today’s economy is going, it’s increasingly difficult to find jobs. A lot of time and effort goes into the job search itself, and it’d be nice to have a easy way to check all those many job sites at once, making it easy for your unemployed butt to do more important things, like work on your website, or finish off that last row of oreos.
2 comments. Posted by md in advice, featured, interwebs, jobs on 27 July 2008.
IncSpring: One mans trash is another mans…trash.
Look at that tagline. Once you read it, you know that this site is going to be terrible.
IncSpring is a site that lets you sell unused concepts, contest entries or “new ideas” to interested parties. It is basically a garbage heap, recycling center of ideas that clients didn’t want, or the designer couldn’t pull off. It is a grab bag of unwanted, thoughtless brands.
Oh, and its ruining graphic design.
57 comments. Posted by md in interwebs, opinion, rant on 24 July 2008.
I’d love to take one of these to the black sand beaches of Costa Rica.
See the world below you with remarkable clarity in this 2 person canoe. This hard shell transparent canoe provides 100% visibility. It weighs only 40 lbs., and is lighter than most aluminum or wood canoes.
Price, including shipping: 1,650$: Order
4 comments. Posted by tanner in interwebs on 18 July 2008.
The fun folks over at haha.nu have started a new project Read more. →
3 comments. Posted by md in interwebs on 17 July 2008.
I found this huge list of video learning resources, showing great places that have good, semi-intelligible videos that might help you learn, weather its intelligent discussions or just better cultural media. You wont find any two girls one cup nonsense here… Read more. →
2 comments. Posted by md in interwebs on 15 July 2008.
Though this has been around for awhile, It’s always nice to be reminded of sites that may have gone out of your memory. I’ve been laughing at some of the lists at McSweeney’s the past few days. Here is one of my favorite…
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No comments. Posted by md in interwebs on 15 July 2008.
Time had the balls to go ahead and post the 50 best websites 2008 five months before 2008 ended. So, if you were hoping for a coveted “best of” spot, you better save your PHP for 2009.
Here are my favorites from their list - I guess we could call this: “the 10 best of Time’s 50 best websites”.
WIKISKY.ORG
Detailed star map of the universe.Searchme Visual Search
A new way to visualize websites and terms you’re searching for.FFFFOUND!
Image bookmarking. (Seems silly to ask, but: anyone got a spare invitation?)MapJack
Your city online.Lookybook
Fully indexed children’s books.Genealogy
Free family tree.Mint
Refreshing money management.someecards
Ecards for when you care enough to hit send.Apartment Therapy
saving the world, one room at a time.Hulu
Watch your favorites. Anytime.
What sites would you have liked to see indexed?
No comments. Posted by tanner in interwebs on 9 July 2008.
