A fresh look at brand innovation, as seen through the technicolor lenses of the godfather of über branding, Mr. Walt Disney. Read More
In 1938 Elzie Segar, the man who created Popeye, died. Therefore according to British law the copyright for usage of Popeye's image dies this year. Considering the Popeye brand still brings in over $2B a year, it will be interesting to ...Read More
This beautiful compendium of type pornography is available from our good friend Mike Cina's excellent design resource, YWFT. Like his contemporaries Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann, Josef Müller Brockmann was a strong proponent of stripped-down, grid-based design, and maintained a ...Read More
KGB, huh? Apparently there's a new name in the search game. This NYC-based company promises to give you more time to enjoy the things you love, by giving you more 'find', less 'search'. Their KGB mobile app for Blackberry ...Read More
Flowing Data has used Modest Maps (an open source library for tile-based maps in Flash and Python) to create an interesting data visualization showing the growth of Walmart stores throughout America from 1962-2007. Looks like a virus outbreak of some ...Read More
Objectified is a new documentary film by Gary Hustwit (the director of Helvetica). From the film website:"Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. ...Read More
Newsweek Magazine recently challenged 4 top design firms to rethink and reinvent the Republican brand. Pentagram, Groop, Razorfish, and Frog Design took up the challenge. I haven't had a chance to fully review their proposed solutions (the full article is ...Read More
While perusing the fascinating blog of freshly-minted RISD pres John Maeda, I ran across this piece on Shep Fairey and the making of his iconic Obama image for TIME's 2008 Man of the Year cover. It's worth noting that Shep's ...Read More
Sitting at the crossing. Train stopped for 10 min now. Suck = true. However, when life gives me lemons, I make iLemons. So being the ever so positively negative person I am, I took this as an opportunity to test ...Read More
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