Archive for May, 2010

Interesting Info + Sweet Illustrations 0

Commuting in Style by Bicycle 0

In honor of “Ride Your Bike to Work Day” tomorrow, I rode my motorcycle today. And here’s a neat blog from Copenhagen about the style of biking, including a post about these wonderful posters. From Utne, this looks like a FUN commute:

Wired + iPad = Future 0

Wired and Adobe have created an iPad version of content (created with Adobe InDesign) that looks great. Especially using fonts from H&FJ. “The point here is that we are entering a new era of media, where we finally have a digital platform that allows us to retain all the rich visual features of high-gloss print, from lavish design to glorious photography, while augmenting it with video, animations, additional content and full interactivity.”

Google Job Experiment / Jerks 0

This ad man, Alec Brownstein, had a brilliant and successful adwords campaign on Google. This video includes the gist of that experiment. Also see his funny-cuz-it’s-true website Jerks in Your Area, including this post from a jerk in Columbus, OH. I know several sweet indie rockers in the scene down there. Haha!

Foods That Will Win The War 0

… And How to cook them. Interesting historical messages and designs from 1918. Here. Not great web design though.