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I’ve been working on the Decca project with the rest of the team at Delete for quite some time and it’s awesome to finally let your creation spring out into the wild! Check it out and let me know what you think.
Objectified is the follow up, if you will, to Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica from 2007. It’s been out a while but I haven’t gotten around to seeing it. It’s an interesting, albeit not very in-depth, look at different kinds of objects and their meaning in our lives. It follows much of Helvetica’s style and narrative and is all in all a balanced piece. Well worth a watch.
A list (yes, with images) of the twenty most unhealthy beverages you can get your grubby little hands on (if you live in the United States, that is). Enjoy.
When I first heard about Spotify I didn’t really understand what all the fuss was about. I had just heard its name being whispered here and there in the dark and gloomy cells of Hyper Island. When I got my invite, however, it all went pretty fast. Within a week I had a nice and well mixed playlist setup which I played over and over again. It was a liberating feeling knowing that I could reach (almost) any kind of music I desired by just a few keystrokes. Think of the possibilities with all that music in the palm of my hand.
Today, one and a half year later it’s still going strong. I’m writing this piece listening to the chilled down tunes coming from my Spotify account. I even pay for it now, so it’s safe to say it has more or less completely taken over the way in which I listen to and enjoy music.
I’m asking myself though, what happened with all those possibilities? What happened to all that new music I was going to listen to? After all, that’s why I signed up for the service in the first place. It was supposed to broaden my musical taste and collection. Truth is, after one and half year of using Spotify on a daily basis I have hardly discovered that much new music at all. In fact, I might actually have listened to less varied music since I have effectively given up my old iTunes music library. I find myself listening to the same playlists over and over again.
I guess discovering new music isn’t that easy and hassle free after all.
Google and Typekit have apparently worked together on a collaboration on open source fonts. In a nutshell, it appears to be the Typekit service, a javascript library called WebFont Loader and a bunch of open source fonts thrown into a mix together. Here’s Google’s and Typekit’s announcement. Note, though, that it doesn’t work on iPhone, iPad or Android as of yet. Still, I’ve got a good feeling about this.
Update: The previewer tool is also worth checking out.
Spotify has diversified a bit among their product line. There’s now a Spotify Open which doesn’t require an invite, and a step in between Premium and Free called Unlimited. Seems like a smart move and will probably pick up the remaining people who think 10 pounds a month is over the top. What they’ll miss out on? Mobile devices and offline playing (which for me at least pretty much only means mobile devices). Get an overview here.
This one is a bit unusual. It’s called Logorama and it’s an animated short movie made up out of all the world’s different brands. It’s an interesting take, although I lost my concentration a bit in to it.
A short feature concepted by Mother on painters working the old fashioned way, painting advertisements on walls by hand in New York City.
This is interesting. The European Union has banned the advertisement of cigarettes on Formula One cars. The new 2010 Ferrari Scuderia F1′s design does, however, still remind you of that old Marlboro logo, no?
BBC goes through their recent identity upgrade work.
Here’s something nerdy, but fun. David Desandro one day wondered if it would be possible to create a typeface using only CSS. And then he did it. It’s a nice mixture of span’s that create the inner workings of the typeface using border-radius and other goodies to perform this magic. It also looks pretty cool, in a chic kind of way. If the thought of this gives you a weird smirk on your face (like, you know, the kind of smirk I’ve got right now) I suggest you head over to his site and inspect the hell out of that code.
Update: Perhaps even cooler, how about The Opera Logo?
Scary stuff, especially the part about Facebook automatically sharing your posts with “Community pages” without your authorization.
Loving the energy spent on these kinds of things.