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Simplicity

Why did I chose this title for the following video? For the reason that if Microsoft would make the features as accessible as Apple does, the users would use them and would know about the power of their products. However, simplicity for me means that the features are easy accessible which comes from a intuitive way of leading the user. As a consequence, if you have an iPhone in your hand you appreciate it straight away.

The following video shows an experiment where random people, which never have used Windows Vista, can have a look at the new Microsoft OS “Mojave” - which is in fact Windows Vista. They are excited about the features Naturally, these are people which have never used Vista, but even people which have used Vista would be surprised about the features.

(via frogblog)

D.BILLY

Rrring (Payphone)

Fooosh (Hydrant)

Crackle (Speaker)

by D. Billy

Breakfast

Nice graphics on this chocolate tin of the 1970’s. Nevertheless I doubt that it tastes like Swiss chocolate powder.

Uploaded by Neato Coolville

Meet the world

Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He is part of the team (with Luis Silva Dias, João Roque, Andrea Vallenti and João Roque) that produced the flags campaign which has been circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail.

Icaro gave us a small statement about the campaign, translated by Isabell Erdmann:
The magazine Revista Grande Reportagem is a Hard Journalism magazine, on the same line as the Times. The idea was to bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today. Read more… See more…

The development of tech companies’ logos

Alex from Neatorama recently posted an interesting article about the evolution of tech companies’ logos. To create a corporate design and most of all the logo of the company is exceedingly difficult which I experienced by myself when we formed our start-up company Join4Music.com. A logo has to express the core message in an easy way, has to be clean and functional, has to show the key benefit (which also comes with the name), has to be timeless i.e. not following a current trend and so on. As you can see; to create a logo includes a bunch of criteria to fulfil. Here is the development of the IBM logo:

More logo evolutions: the evolution of tech companies’ logos

You know you’re a graphic designer when…

You watch the superbowl just for the commercials

You can spot bad typography from 100 yds away

You are pro-facebook because 95% of the myspace accounts burn your retinas

You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes

You are completely immune to subliminal advertising

You look upon a well-designed project with either:
sympathy OR extreme jealousy

Your hand is permanently stuck in the shape of a mouse

You tell stories of exacto-knife inflicted wounds with grizzled sort of pride

You practically take caffeine intravenously

You have an appreciation for everything unique

You’ve been spending three days non-stop on a project and it still looks like shit. You find yourself overcome by Deathlust.

“You find your pulse increase at the sight of a lovely ligature, glasses steam up when an unusually elegant arm, leg, or tail comes in view, and a well-kerned paragraph is apt to make you break into a sweat with excitement.”

“You know you’re a Graphic Designer when… you buy a CD or DVD for the artwork, even if you have no idea what the actual music or film is like”.
(even worse, you don’t actually watch or listen to it, just stare at it for hours and hug it in adoration)

“You know you’re a Graphic Designer when… you look at the clock and see it’s about midnight and think ‘I’ll go to bed now’… and you actually go to bed about 2-3am”.

“You know you’re a Graphic Designer when… you need someone else to point out that you’re sitting in a room in front of the computer with all the lights off, and haven’t noticed”

“…when you know what “kerning” is and you really, really like it.”

“… when you wear two [ke] [rn] pins on your bag, and only you know what the mean. To others its probably a band of sorts..”

Forget the boy-wonder and the man of steel; your heroes have names like ‘Tibor Kalman’, ‘Stefan Sagmeister’, ‘Paul Rand’, and ‘Paula Scher’.

You don’t wear black to look cool, you wear it to hide the gauche.

You have a thing for chairs. You don’t know why.

You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD

Nice panorama picture

This image was bookmarked by several people on ffffound.com.

FFFFOUND is really a good source of inspiration! Unfortunately, it is still in private beta.

Business Cards

The fact that I am currently applying for a job prompts for the first blog entry: Business Cards. I have thought that it would be a good idea to create a business card, although I think that it is kind of odd to have a business card without a company on it… However, “dailypoetics” has an awesome collection of very creative business cards. Here are some examples:

The whole set on flickr >>