So good to see Metric taking the US by storm. And to think—they released their latest album under their own label. I still remember going to a farm a few years back to see them, now they are on Leno. Our little band is all grows up.
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…Letterheady is an online homage to offline correspondence; specifically letters. However, here at Letterheady we don’t care about the letter’s content. Just its design.
Letterheady is a blog that showcases very unique letterhead. There is something to be said for the level of restraint that has gone into some of these designs. It makes me want to design my own letterhead.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
—Aldous Huxley
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A fantastic site design for Tesla by Odopod. The Model S is a fully electric car that doesn’t look like a box and is half the price of the Roadster. I’m sure the waiting lists will be long for this one.
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The Panasonic Design Museum is a site to re-visit. A great interaction piece that shows Panasonic has been a Design company for a long time.
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What more can I can say about this site except—I fuckin love it! Hard to beat the impact of this site on a 24″ screen.
(via @combustion)
Posted by July 20, 2010 permalink
A great little site to show the transition from the first Air Jordan to the Alpha 1. I am reminded of my old portfolio site from 2004.
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Eleanor Wachtel, arts journalist and host of Writers & Company, talks to graphic designer Milton Glaser about growing up in the Bronx, how a Fulbright scholarship to study in Italy changed his life, why he loves cooking almost as much as design, and about ethics and “Milton Glaser’s Road to Hell.”
(via cbc.ca)
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One thing I have always been about is giving people credit where it is due. There was a time where our designs were confined to a fixed pixel box that sat in the middle of the browser. With screen sizes growing, it was inevitable that sites would start to go full-browser with the intention of eventually shedding the browser. We have yet to shed the browser, but we are indeed closer than we were 5 years ago.
It was in 2005 when I stumbled upon a site created by Big Spaceship for a then upcoming film entitled Wolf Creek. This site would forever change how I looked at websites and it would take me in a direction to be followed in designing sites for the following 5 years. Not only did it embrace the full-browser concept, but it was the first site I had seen to use video as background elements. It was the perfect website for a feature film.
We have come a long way in the world of web design over the past 5 years—lets not forgot the sites that have paved the way for this tremendous progress. Lets not forget the vision and creativity that went into building these pieces. Lets not fall into this climate of ‘sameness’ that seems to be taking over the web. Heed to creativity and heed to vision.
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