Counters are the new counters
Are Facebook fan and Twitter follower counters the current incarnation of the ever-so-cliche website visitor counters of the late nineties? Louis Lazaris answers this and more in Are current web design trends pushing us back to 1999
Posted February 28, 2012 at 12:04pm
More stock photo shenanigans. Entered wrong image number (off by one digit)! But now we’re going to use this one - insurance needs to be sexier anyway.
Posted February 13, 2012 at 2:38pm
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Logotype for new Cincinnati-based illustrated publication for our digital age.
Typeface is Bodoni Poster. This logotype matches up well with the mission of the paper:
1) Late 1800s fat face poster type, speaks to a different time when communication was exploding in both reach and variety, usually visually exciting but garish at times, just like our visual landscape today, times 100;
2) inverted V for an A (silly/absurd); which speaks to the post-partisan position of the paper’s editorial content: there are two (million) sides to every story; up/down, and when rotated 90°, left/right; and
3) both characters have been reversed - something not easy (or maybe not possible) in the age of metal type (we’re recognizing our digital era, but are not slaves to it).
Posted February 6, 2012 at 7:29pm
Blog like it’s 2003
A rambling, meandering rant. Enjoy!
I try and reflect on how wonderful my life is. I don’t do it nearly enough, but when I do I’m amazed at the fleeting nature of my gratitude. I feel like I’m living like a king, and I still complain.
But we’re not living like kings. Kings couldn’t dream of what we have today, even the lifestyle of a guy like me - upper lower middle class.
We’re living like gods.
But everything is relative. People will get used to the norm, be it walking one mile for water, or waiting one second for an Internet connection. We’ll get used to both, and demand better - and complain when our expectation of the “new normal” is violated. It is a frustrating and wonderful pattern. Frustration about the ungrateful, priveleged nature of us all. Wonderful because that impatience, that desire to make something better, faster, stronger, cheaper, is a remarkable gift we humans possess. Innovation allows prosperity to spread to more people, who instead of making their own shoes are free to build a better mousetrap.
Or just complain about the one they have now.
Posted January 6, 2012 at 10:34am in universe mystery quantum physics quantum physics
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Cowbird lets people tell their stories, with a combination of pictures, sound, and video. There are hundreds of Occupy Wall Street “sagas,” this photo being a remarkable one.
Posted December 29, 2011 at 11:39am in occupy wall street ows cowbird storytelling stories story protest corporations are people corporations arent people capital punishment death penalty death row
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How not to talk
Sound like anyone you know?
Thinking outside the box
“Let’s take this offline.”
Value-add
Low-hanging fruit
“Let’s run it up the flag pole.”
Synergy
Paradigm shift
Thought leader
Stakeholder
Posted December 28, 2011 at 11:00am in corporate corporate speech corporate babble buzzwords annoying
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Oh man this video has it all!
- Dominant men treating their wives like slaves
- Faced with a twinge of guilt, our heroes… turn a blind eye by suggesting a nap
- And the crème de la crème – cartoon characters endorsing cigarettes, and lighting up!
Gosh almighty I thought I was a “real man” with my beer and football weekends, but I have so much to learn!
Posted December 27, 2011 at 7:21pm in cartoons cigarettes smoking cartoons smoking cigarettes and cartoons fred and barney the flintstones 1960s 1960s advertising cigarette advertising
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My friends Aman and Amanda are going to have a baby! I drew this on a postcard I just wrote to them in Chicago.
I thought an obvious difference between them was a uterus and baby-growing potential, so that’s what Amanda’s “DA” should make. Making the baby “a” lower case is pretty cute I think. And the M as boobs cracks me up.
Oh yeah, Aman’s half Mexican, thus the tilde-as-hair (concept credit).
EDIT: redrew the curves so they connect. And in drawing those ellipses, I was reminded of her.
Posted December 27, 2011 at 11:26am in Illustration baby graphic design joy pregnancy pregnant typography
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