Sunday, February 10, 2008

Pink Floyd Album Box set

This is actually an ad of Pink Floyd albums in the official website. I have never seen a more breath taking presentation. If all advertisements were done like this, I might actually start reading them (I am ad-hater no 1)

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The Evolution of Tech Companies Logos

You’ve seen these tech logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? Did you know that Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia’s original logo was a fish?Let’s take a look at the origin of tech companies’ logos and how they evolved over time

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Is Visual Taste Perception Coloring Your Appetite?

How much does your internalized color and food associations - the ones we started developing from the very first time we saw our mothers’ arm reach across and place before us a dark green round leafy Brussels sprout - impact what you are tasting now, and how are food producers exploiting this information to influence consumers?

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St. Petersburg Starts Process of Becoming a Domed City

It's not quite a glass-domed city yet, but St. Petersberg has taken the first steps towards that goal. British architecture firm Wilkinson Eyre, best known for the design of the Gateshead Millenium Bridge in Newcastle, unveiled a bold new plan to revamp the old market of St. Petersburg, Russia by putting it entirely under glass.

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5 Innovative Industrial Designs for Ecological Living [PICS]

What if you could simply reuse packaging as part of a product rather than sending away for disposal or recycling? Some industrial designers have answered this question with creative designs where the packaging of an item becomes part of the product itself. Like creative flat-pack designs, the constraints of the projects become opportunities for sel

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Floors That Harvest The Energy From Every Little Step

Generate electricity by capturing the energy people create in such simple motions as walking, running or jumping. They envision a future city in which the crowds streaming through subway stations, sporting venues and tourist destinations produce energy for harvest.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Good Fonts for Grapic Designers

A great resource listing 300 good fonts for graphic designers. A nice way of wading through the enormous list of fonts available on the web nicely organized.

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Bill Maher set design 'forgets' to pay photo-blogger

More evidence of just how main-stream photoblogging is -- looks like the set designer for Real Time with Bill Maher 'forgot' to pay a photo-blogger for using a composite of his images as the background of a skit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lbstone/44076689/

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Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design

As Google and Yahoo! continue their volley of product offerings, this guy thought it would be useful to compare the interface design solutions each company employed to solve similar user needs. In other words: how does Yahoo’s version of a product (Maps, Local Search, Image Search, etc.) compare to Google’s? Really neat side bu side comparision

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Amazing Collection of Design Resources

Blue Vertigo is an excellent site to have in your bookmarks. It boasts a huge collection of design resources. Including vector logotypes, stock photography, fonts, brushes, sounds and more!

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