Design:
“If print is dead, it’s a pretty lively corpse.”
When Good Adword Campaigns Go Bad
Web:
or, how Kiwirail like to mix it with a bunch of racist bastards
Crispin, Porter + Bogusky are kicking arse for Microsoft
Mac:
The iPod has put an Apple product in the pockets of half the western world but somehow it’s lost a bit of brand mojo or mystique along the way.
A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn
Politics:
A beautifully animated piece based on a speech by Howard Zinn on the history of American imperialism.
How NOT to mark up a form
Code:
I’ve spent the last couple of days knees deep in someone else’s HTML and CSS. It’s not been the most pleasant of experiences…
Orange Rainbows and the River Suck
Design:
Poke London’s rather vapid but none-the-less kinda cool Unlimited Rainbow site for Orange has just won a Cannes Silver Cyber Lion but that’s not the interesting bit.
Nokia’s Global Animation Project
Design:
The always amazing Universal Everything used Flickr to crowd source a tasty motion graphics sequence for the mobile giant.
Show me another Gantt chart and I’ll scream
Design:
Maybe clients like to see them. Makes them comfortable, like someone who speaks your own language in a foreign country. But they just don’t work as internal project management tools.
Twistori – Social Voyeurism with Heart
Web:
Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs have released a clever little project based on Twitter – Twistori.
Fix broken Previous/Next Post Links in Wordpress 2.5
Code:
Stop Wordpress from including explicitly excluded categories in it’s prev/next post navigation
Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer
Art:
Synthesizing type with what looks like an old analog synth - beats illustrator!
Never, ever work directly on the server
Code:
By never ever I mean really really never, not-at-all, snowball’s-chance, just-say-no.
