Anyone who appreciates graphic design will enjoy taking a look at this wonderful retrospective that colourlovers has put together. (And while you’re there, don’t forget to check out my color palettes!)
Oh boy. File this under the-hypocrisy-is-drowning-me. Watching Bill Gates politely espouse the benefits of “creative capitalism“1 while being mostly widely known as the founder of the corporation that has single-handedly destroyed the productivity of billions of individuals—it’s just to much for me to take. My fury borders on that of Joe Mathlete’s exhaustive anger towards Marmaduke. This kind of wow-you-have-no-idea-do-you bafflement washes over me when I hear Gates waxing about doing good. Look, to the man’s credit, he has—in a Robin Hood sort of way—funneled billions from corporations and is now in the process of phase 2, giving the money to the poor. But the idea that Windows was ever any good makes me vomit.
Why does Time magazine feel the need to belittle the concept of creativity by associating it with what is essentially corporate socialism? I’m not against the idea that corporations should do much more to help their communities and the less fortunate, but calling that “creative” is akin to calling giving your change to a homeless person “creative.” Yeah. Oooooh. Giving away your loose change? Brilliant! ↩
The patent law blog just released a discussion of how the Patent and Trademark Office is beginning to change its policy with regard to the patenting of “processes.” I have to agree with a number of people in the comments who point out that the PTO’s decisions seem to be arbitrary and largely based on gobbledy-gook, but I don’t care. This is one case where I believe the means are much less important than the ends.
From Buenos Aries and Baden and the obviously bent mind of Blu comes this beautiful animation called “Muto“. But don’t suppose this is just any animation, this is a motion piece done on public walls over what must have been a period of weeks or years. The soundtrack, created by Andrea Martignoni [^1], is appropriately strange and stilted. The lack of standing camera work on the animation gives it a very unsettling life, like watching time-lapse footage of slow-moving living artwork. This is one of the most creative ideas I’ve seen on the internet in months.
[^1:] I’m not clear yet at to whether this obscure mp3 link is the same Andrea Martignoni, but the sound is similar. I’m looking into it.
I’ve been a designer for more than a decade and I only scored a 24 out of 34 on on the Rather Difficult Font Game. In my defense, I don’t stray too much from the 14 or so fonts that I really like (Hoefler Text, Helvetica, Trebuchet, Monaco, Gotham, Archer, Academy, Bauhaus, Futura, Eurostile, Impact, Optima, Rollergirls, Rosewood STD, and Lucinda) And only four of those were in the quiz! So Phbbbbt!1
Update: And Krungthep! I forgot Krungthep. ↩
