Designers have their own Digg. It's called Design Float and carries aggregated news in graphic design, web design, identity and branding, illustration and other associated categories. Design Float has more than 6500 members who are able to submit and vote content up or down. According to the LA Times, community supported niche aggregators are sprouting up all over the place. There's Tip'd for business junkies; Auto …
Rhubarb On The Mind
Wieden + Kennedy art director, technologist and writer, Matthew Carroll likes pie. His pie chart may, or may not, indicate that it's possible to live a healthy (but pie-centric) lifestyle while working at the pearl of the Pearl. Another take-away is that Carroll likes pie. In a quick Twitter-then-email exchange Carroll said that "sometimes stupid ideas are the best ideas" and that he does not like cake. "Never cared …
Dylan On Vinyl (Digitally)
The redesigned BobDylan.com has a tricked out record player that's available as a pull down menu. Maybe it's no big thing, but I like it. A lot. The scratchy man from Minnesota belongs on vinyl. …
Great Concepts Demand To Be Built (It’s Like There’s A Real Seed In the Idea)
Microsoft's needed a way to showcase its Expression Studio and Silverlight products and sell them as integral to the creative process. So they came up with the PhizzPop Online Design Challenge and PhizzPop Tour. When the tour came to Minneapolis, Zeus Jones stepped up and won the local competition, a fact which led them to compete and win again in Austin at the PhizzPop nationals. Zeus Jones Phizzpop SXSW Finale from …
“No Logo” Was A Primer, Now We’re On To “No Product”
Journalist John Hockenberry, writing in Metropolis Magazine, wonders "how designers participate in an economy of no product?" Twenty-nine years after George W. S. Trow envisioned an era of no context, it is suddenly possible to discern an economic era of no product. For most of the postwar era, design and marketing have been all about creating aspirational narratives with the aim of getting people to make purchases. …
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New Looks for Public Works
Rob Walker drew my attention to the Obama administration's recent branding efforts for The Recovery. Portland's Aaron Draplin, who loves early 20th century design (appropriately enough) helped make the DOT logo. …
Carded
Henry Jones at Web Design Ledger is fascinated with great looking business cards. So much so he revently launched a new site called Card Observer. Card Observer showcases only the best business card designs. They do this for a couple of reasons: to shine the spotlight on the talented designers who create these beautiful cards, and to inspire. …
Tropicana Squeezes New Life Out Of Its Old Packaging
Tropicana redesigned its packaging, but it turns out people prefer the old Tropicana packaging (pictured below) over the new, which some say is generic-looking. Could a harsher criticism be leveled? According to The New York Times, the company is paying attention to its customers complaints and reversing its decision to change. The PepsiCo Americas Beverages division of PepsiCo is bowing to public demand and …
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