Soviet Posters
Posted on August 23, 2007 by C Johnson
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SovietPoster is a truly original blog that is, of all things, inspirational for designers and illustrators alike. And what makes this blog so singularly intriguing is that its source of artistic inspiration comes from behind the iron curtain.
Days of the Week.com
Posted on August 22, 2007 by Tuesday Creative
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We are Tuesday, but much like the famous dwarves, we have six roommates. So whom exactly do we share the week with?
tuesday.com
That’s us! The best weekday website of them all!
Anke Weckmann, Illustrator
Posted on August 21, 2007 by C Lin
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My latest discovery is of the German illustrator Anke Weckmann. She has a very cute illustration style that is reminiscent of the late Margaret Kilgallen. The feel of her work has a hint of San Francisco’s Mission area’s streets as well as an impression of Yoshitomo Nara’s cute-but-deadly mantra. Her drawings are lovely; the coloring muted and beautifully subdued, and the images are always neat and tidy. Weckmann has a sharp sense of humor and is unafraid to show it, and yet her drawings manage to have a tinge of awkwardness to them that is hard to describe.
What’s an iLife?
Posted on August 20, 2007 by S Running
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I was at Best Buy this weekend and needed to pick up a copy of iLife ‘08. I looked in the locked Apple software cabinet and they had about 50 copies of iLife ‘06, but no ‘08. So I found a sales tech a few feet from the Apple vault, a young man in his early twenties. I asked him, “Do you have the new iLife?” In all seriousness, he said, “What’s an iLife?” Nice.
Use of Photography in Web Design
Posted on August 16, 2007 by C Johnson
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Tutorialblog has been posting tutorials on subjects from Photoshop to web design since 2005. Yesterday, it ran an interesting post about the use of photography in web design, making this thought-provoking observation:
“Photography can make or break a website. Got a great site with lame pictures, then you’ve got a lame website.”
Microsoft’s Silverlight
Posted on August 15, 2007 by C Lin
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Silverlight is a Microsoft software program that strives to compete with Adobe Flash and the presentation components of Ajax. The program is reported to offer a more consistent experience cross-browser and cross-platform. Silverlight also includes a version of the .Net Framework and will supposedly provide an even greater scalability with Windows servers.
Artistic Differences
Posted on August 13, 2007 by C Johnson
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Swiss conceptual artist Christoph Buchel’s newest installation for Massachusett’s MASS MoCA gallery was meant to be a statement on America’s war effort through Buchel’s eclectic use of, among other things, a blown up airplane fuselage, a re-creation of Sadam Hussein’s hiding place in Iraq, and a kiddie carnival ride where bombs are used as passenger cars. The exhibit entitled “Training Ground for Democracy” was so grand in scale that it was going to fill the whole MASS MoCA’s gargantuan “Gallery 5.” Ambitious? The hefty $320,000 price tag certainly confirms that. Ridiculous? Ah, unfortunately that delicious debate will probably never truly take wing since Buchel’s installation is, according to an article run in the LA Times today, destined for the dustbin.
Future Fusion
Posted on August 9, 2007 by C Lin
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While Fusion is still in Beta there has been a lot of talk about how it will give Parallels Desktop a run for its money. Not only is it cheap, ($40 pre-order) it will allow you to run multiple operating systems like OSX, Windows and Linux on a MAC simultaneously. Oh and it’s supposedly faster than Parallels.
For a more detailed review
The official Fusion website
The Internet Turns 16
Posted on August 8, 2007 by C Johnson
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Yesterday, the Internet turned the big 16. In human years, that’s just old enough to get a provisional driver’s license, some countries will even let you drink legally, and you also get the green light to be extraordinarily obnoxious. But unlike most 16 year-olds, the Internet has spent its formative years, not leaching off mum and dad, but making enormous contributions to society. Sure it can be a petulant pain in the backside, but the Internet has done more to change the world we live in during the past sixteen years, for better or for worse, than any other invention in recent memory. Revolutionizing the way we live our lives in nearly every aspect: the way we work, the way we talk, how we shop, organize, communicate and socialize.
Improve your DSL with a Splitter
Posted on August 6, 2007 by S Running
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A few months ago I mentioned to Chuck, one of our brilliant technophiles, that my home DSL was averaging about 200 kpbs. In case you aren’t familiar with DSL, that average is bad. He suggested that I get myself a DSL splitter like this one from Wilcom. You install it into your main phone box and it isolates the phone line that your DSL runs on from all the voice lines in your house.
