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Mon - December 18, 2006Germanos SansGermanos retail graphics were redesigned using Comic Sans,
I noticed at their Plazza Mall outlet. Horrible.
Posted at 02:33 PM Back to | Read more NekoJapanese have a thing for cats (I count cats in their movies) and Neko is a cat for your Mac’s
desktop.
Posted at 02:32 PM Back to | Read more Fri - September 22, 2006Who Is Jonathan Ive?"Apple is a cult, and Apple's design team is an even more intense
version of a cult" -- read Who Is Jonathan Ive? in BusinessWeek.
Posted at 11:59 AM Back to | Read more Tue - September 19, 2006Wed - September 13, 2006Sun - September 10, 2006Play filmsFifty NFB animated shorts, including several animation classics at Focus on Animation. Great.
Posted at 11:36 PM Back to | Read more Wed - September 6, 2006RefreshingClaudia about Bucharest. Read Home, not alone and Progress marches on @ Ex Patria.
Posted at 02:19 PM Back to | Read more Fri - September 1, 2006UrbeeLiving in Bucharest? Try Urbee! It’s a smart little java app for
your phone that feeds you up-to-date info about what happens around the city.
Metropotam’s little brother... mm, or
sister.
Posted at 05:14 PM Back to | Read more Thu - August 31, 2006Bob Dylan + iPodAs Steve Jobs is known as a passionate collector of Bob Dylan’s
official records and bootlegs as well, there should be no surprise about the
latest iPod TVC.
Posted at 10:16 AM Back to | Read more Sun - August 27, 2006Style is not designLG Chocolate phone gets heavily criticized for its bad design.
“Whenever I review a product this badly designed, I just stare at the
ceiling and try to imagine how it could possibly have gotten out the
door.” Read David Pogue’s Heavily Hyped
Cellphone Won’t Make You a Chocoholic in his NYTimes blog.
Posted at 01:29 AM Back to | Read more Fri - August 25, 2006DIY First Person ShooterGlue-it-together FPS by Aram Bartholl.
Humiliation!
Posted at 01:34 AM Back to | Read more Wed - August 16, 2006Something positive, for a changeBusinessWeek: "Bucharest rivals Bangalore for availability of
exceptionally gifted programmers at rock-bottom prices." Read Romanian Rhapsody by Carol Matlack in
BusinessWeek.
Posted at 01:03 AM Back to | Read more Sun - August 13, 2006Andrei Plesu on bloggingAbout blogs as "soft terrorism" and form without content, in Note Berlineze, Dilema Veche. Arguably one of
the most ambiguous and inarticulate articles written by the otherwise savory and
reputable author. [in Romanian, via Oricum Blog]
Posted at 03:31 PM Back to | Read more Thu - August 3, 2006MS 'borrowing' from Apple. Again."The Windows Vista Industrial Design Toolkit, hand-delivered to about
70 designers, contains everything a PC maker needs -- color palette, suggested
materials, even graphics for icons and power buttons -- to create computers,
laptops, and peripherals that hew to Vista's look." Read Microsoft, Design Guru in BusinessWeek.
Posted at 02:40 PM Back to | Read more Fri - July 21, 2006I use thisWhat apps do I use daily? Have a look at i use
this.
Posted at 12:35 PM Back to | Read more Wed - July 12, 20062006 World Cup idA sports newspaper asked for my opinion regarding Erik Spiekermann being critical of the design concept for the
2006 World Cup. It's hard not to agree with Mr Spiekermann. Read Goleo de idei by Stefan Beldie in Gazeta
Sporturilor. [in Romanian]
Posted at 02:20 PM Back to | Read more Wed - July 5, 2006Where draughts are truly dangerous"In Romania, the greatest threat to life today is not poverty,
climate change or al-Qa'eda. It's moving air. Fans, air conditioning and open
windows are not - as I had thought - useful mechanisms to generate a nice
breeze, or give a little respite as summer temperatures climb to around 40
degrees. They are weapons of mass destruction." Read Where draughts are truly dangerous in The
Telegraph.
Posted at 02:03 PM Back to | Read more Mon - June 26, 2006Logo makeovers coverageSee A Face-Lift on the Familiar diagram at
NYTimes.
Posted at 03:18 PM Back to | Read more Fri - June 23, 2006Ex PatriaClaudia of Halfway Down the Danube started a new blog,
update your bookmarks/OPMLs with her new Ex
Patria.
Posted at 02:35 PM Back to | Read more Mon - June 19, 2006MactowerMactower, haha, that's a good one. I am like that sometimes, I
suppose.
Posted at 07:47 PM Back to | Read more Tue - May 16, 2006An Inconvenient Truth"By far, the most terrifying film you'll ever see" — and it's not
even fiction. Watch An Inconvenient Truth, the trailer. [via Halfway Down the Danube]
Posted at 07:36 PM Back to | Read more Mon - May 15, 2006Pretty UglyDesigned vs un-design debate gets sorted out by Jason Santa Maria:
"Things are not either black or white. Good design is certainly not only
something visually beautiful. I will yell it from the rooftops, design is
communication!" Read his post Pretty Ugly.
Posted at 07:40 PM Back to | Read more Wed - May 10, 2006Get a MacApple's Get a Mac campaign, in 6 TVC executions and the
accompanying list of 14 reasons to buy a Mac.
Posted at 07:41 PM Back to | Read more Sun - April 2, 200630 years in Apple products: the good, the bad, and the ugly"While the company has become known for many things, from its
groundbreaking GUI to the iTunes Music Store, we know Apple has always been a
hardware company at heart. So here's to you, Apple: the good, the bad and, yes,
the ugly from the past 30 years. Happy Birthday." Read 30 years in Apple products at Engadget.
Posted at 07:12 PM Back to | Read more Wed - March 29, 2006Pre-pixelated clothes"If you’re going to be on a Reality TV show, you can buy one of
these fine products and save someone a lot of headaches later." Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows.
[Thanks Alin]
Posted at 04:50 PM Back to | Read more Tue - March 28, 2006Apple at 30"Founded in a bedroom by a pair of college dropouts, Apple may not
have evolved to dominate the industry it helped launch in 1976, but it certainly
has led it." Follow Wired's coverage on Apple's 30th birthday.
Posted at 08:06 PM Back to | Read more Tue - March 21, 2006NO!SPEC"Our mission is to educate the public about speculative, or 'spec'
work. Our target includes those who use creative services, as well as creative
professionals (designers, photographers, illustrators and those in marketing and
branding)." If you're in one of the categories mentioned above, you should
have a good, long, serious look at NO!SPEC.
Posted at 08:38 PM Back to | Read more "I'm going to f***ing kill Google."A little late is better than a little never. Digerati will rejoice
remembering 2005's biggest spoken gaffes, including the one
above, coming from the best paid comic of recent years, Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer.
Posted at 08:18 PM Back to | Read more Sat - March 4, 2006Need no anti-virus software anytime soon"These Mac security holes are a storm in a teacup. They've inspired
hundreds of stories in the press and even the national network news, but if they
were Windows holes, no one would have blinked. [...] These Mac 'threats' are
only news because of their novelty, not the threat level they pose." Read Mac
Attack a Load of Crap on Wired.
Posted at 07:07 PM Back to | Read more Thu - March 2, 2006Steve's OutfitHere is an announcement for *real* Apple fans: check Steve's
Outfit 'The definitive wardrobe source' page. While it's still
online.
Posted at 03:15 PM Back to | Read more Tue - February 21, 2006Coming backI know many people who returned to Romania after living abroad for a
while: friends, partners, colleagues and clients. They brought with them both
knowledge and a sense of civility—good citizenship. I don't know Petroniu,
but I read his blog. He never thought he will — but he came back. Read
Declaratie pentru Romania. [in Romanian]
Posted at 03:23 PM Back to | Read more Wed - February 8, 2006Dealing with rejectionThose who don't know that advertising is 90% about dealing with
rejection, have a look at the timeline of Go Daddy's TVC (to be aired during
Super Bowl XL) submissions to ABC.
Posted at 06:28 PM Back to | Read more Tue - January 24, 2006The 2006 BloggiesGo vote for the 6th annual weblog awards: The 2006
Bloggies, or at least see what's new. Have a look at their shortest
definition of a weblog, ever: "A 'weblog' is defined as a page with dated
entries." Not bad. My pick for the weblog of the year?--PostSecret, heart-shredding stuff.
Posted at 08:10 PM Back to | Read more Mon - January 23, 2006The Battle of the Ad BlogsA little late is better than a little never—Ad Rag holds a 'Battle of the
Ad Blogs'. Update your bookmark lists and/or your blogrolls.
Posted at 05:37 PM Back to | Read more Fri - January 20, 2006RSS.MioriticsRSS.Mioritics version 2.0: 560 Romanian RSS feeds, and
counting. Categorized on keywords, platform, recently updated, latest added etc.
Fabulous resource. [in Romanian]
Posted at 05:49 PM Back to | Read more Style Versus Design"Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop
culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two
things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you
where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is
tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect
of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes." Jeffrey
Zeldman, in Style Versus Design--Why Understanding the
Difference Is What It's All About.
Posted at 11:26 AM Back to | Read more Mon - January 16, 2006Neo Sans for IntelIntel has rebranded and is now using a font, “Neo Sans
Intel”, which combines modified versions of Sebastian Lester’s Neo
Sans and Neo Tech. FontShop's blog FontFeed says so.
Posted at 10:03 PM Back to | Read more Wed - January 11, 2006Behind the magic curtainAnd while we are at it, have a look Behind the magic curtain and see what happens
behind Steve Jobs' keynotes. Or, if you prefer The Joy of Tech over The
Guardian, have a look at their alternative explanation.
Posted at 08:44 PM Back to | Read more Watch the KeynoteApple posted Steve Jobs' Macworld San Francisco keynote webcast on-line.
In order to feel the "reality distortion field"-effect you may want to click
here.
Posted at 12:37 PM Back to | Read more Tue - January 10, 2006Design a Steve Jobs Movie PosterUntil Steve Jobs' Keynote at Macworld San Francisco begins (today
at 9am - San Francisco time), have a look at the "Design a Steve Jobs Movie Poster" contest at
Mike Davidson's blog. My personal favorites? Enemy of Bill Gates, Steve Hur and, of course, the so very
appropriate Being Steve Jobs. Hilarious.
Posted at 02:01 AM Back to | Read more Sun - January 1, 2006Best typefacesTypographica posts the first part of their favorite
typefaces of 2005 list.
Posted at 08:01 PM Back to | Read more Mon - December 19, 2005Yes, yes, yes!!!"The National Association of Theater Owners wants the Federal
Communications Commission to allow the blocking of cell phone signals in
theaters." Read Theater owners want cell phones blocked.
Posted at 02:57 PM Back to | Read more Mon - December 12, 2005Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin'Excelent article on Be A Design Group -- here's a quote for those who
got loud against AT&T and UPS rebranding programs: "My advice to the graphic
designers of the world: Look at UPS and AT&T. Get used to that. Get ready to
execute like that." Read Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin'.
Posted at 08:40 PM Back to | Read more Thu - December 1, 2005Graphic design's role on the Web"The best websites are highly functional. They are task-focused. Graphic
design has an important, though limited role. Don’t try and force the Web
to be what it’s not." Read Graphic design plays a minor role on the
Web.
Posted at 05:32 PM Back to | Read more Wed - October 26, 2005Intelligent Design"Today I'm really going out there," said the Lord God. "And I know it
won’t be popular at first, and you’re all gonna be saying, 'Earth to
Lord God,' but in a few million years it’s going to be timeless. I'm going
to design a man."
New Yorker's version of the Intelligent Design theory. The intelligent version, that is. Posted at 08:20 PM Back to | Read more Mon - October 24, 2005Jonathan IveInterview with Apple's Senior VP of Design -- at
Design Museum.
Posted at 10:49 PM Back to | Read more Mon - August 15, 2005Wed - July 27, 2005Wishful thinking"Anyone using Microsoft's new Virtual Earth website for a bird's-eye
view of Apple's corporate headquarters saw only a grainy overhead photograph of
what appears to be a single, nondescript warehouse and a deserted parking lot --
not Apple's sprawling campus, with 11 modern buildings surrounding a plush
courtyard." :) Read.
Posted at 06:24 PM Back to | Read more Fri - July 22, 2005I might start singing"But What I Really Want to Do Is Design" article
in NY Times – Brad Pitt, Hayden Christensen are into doing architecture,
Lenny Kravitz is doing design: he founded Kravitz Design, a firm focusing on
commercial, residential and product design.
Posted at 01:24 PM Back to | Read more Wed - June 8, 2005Intel insideThe five stages of Intel Macs at The Joy of
Tech. [via Gizmodo]
Posted at 10:29 PM Back to | Read more Wed - April 27, 2005The Scourge of Arial« I can almost hear young designers now saying, "Helvetica? That's
that font that looks kinda like Arial, right?" » Read.
Posted at 12:04 AM Back to | Read more Sat - April 16, 2005Thu - April 14, 2005Future that never happenedUnrealized Moscow, a somehow familiar spirit for
those of us who happen to live in the Eastern Europe. For more western utopias,
less politically charged, look here: Retrofuture. Or here: Harmer E. Davies Transportation Library.
Posted at 09:54 AM Back to | Read more Wed - April 13, 2005Romanian RSS feedsRomanian RSS feeds on Bloglines. Thanx, whoever
you are. [via Troniu]
Posted at 09:10 PM Back to | Read more Fri - April 1, 2005Return of the MacPaul Graham in his Return of the Mac: "All the best hackers I know
are gradually switching to Macs. My friend said his whole research group at MIT
recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers
and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the mid 1990s. They're
about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get. The reason, of course, is OS X.
Powerbooks are beautifully designed and run FreeBSD. What more do you need to
know?"
Posted at 10:37 AM Back to | Read more Mon - March 28, 2005Wed - February 16, 2005Sniffing MicrosoftWrinkling nose at Microsoft was once a dubious prerogative of small,
indy, web-based rogue media, Linux hippies and Macintosh zealots; nowadays
anti-Microsoft articles can be found right in the mainstream media: ABC News
writes Silicon Insider: R.I.P. Microsoft? A smart
quote: "Like Yahoo! and Apple before it, Microsoft may have to die in order to
be reborn." To be taken with a grain of salt. [thanx, Gupi]
Posted at 09:36 AM Back to | Read more Tue - February 15, 2005ElsewhereKottke has a short interview with the guy
dancing in that new crazy cool VW Golf GTI commercial.
Posted at 12:22 AM Back to | Read more Fri - February 11, 2005Waiting for the long-long-LonghornSteve Jobs in Fortune Magazine interview: « Microsoft copied original
Apple Mac with Windows 95, now they're copying us again. [...] Mac OS X is so
solid that Apple is beginning to sell Macs into markets that never before would
even consider them, like the military and university supercomputer centers. Most
tantalizing of all is scuttlebutt that three of the biggest PC makers are wooing
Jobs to let them license OS X and adapt it to computers built around standard
Intel chips. Why? They want to offer customers, many of whom are sick of the
security problems that go with Windows and tired of waiting for Longhorn, an
alternative. » Read about it in Mac Daily News' article.
Posted at 10:12 AM Back to | Read more Tue - February 8, 2005Bad name or bad design?Victorinox SwissMemory Air Travel 128 MB USB Storage Device: oops,
that's a bit of harmful brand consistency. Maybe try and get
that 'Air Travel' out of its name? Shotgun-shaped mp3 players,
anyone?
Posted at 09:59 AM Back to | Read more Super Bowl ads a letdownThe Slate posts a Super Bowl Special! – The best and worst
ads this year, by Seth Stevenson. Conclusion: « Fun moments here and there,
but overall a big letdown. Since when must every ad be funny and light (and
stupid)? Where are the dramatic, spine-tingling, "event" ads? The ads that give
you goose bumps and make you well? »
Posted at 09:44 AM Back to | Read more Sun - January 23, 2005Tim Burton's 'Corpse Bride'After The Nightmare Before Christmas [1,
2, 3] and Vincent [1, 2], now Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
[1, 2].
Posted at 02:41 PM Back to | Read more Tue - January 18, 2005Live postcardBored with television? Here's a webcam feed in Sighisoara Romania (I don't know
the town, but the IP belongs to a company in Sighisoara). Mac users, paste url
in VLC
or open it's web page in Firefox, as in Safari doens't
work).
Posted at 10:12 AM Back to | Read more Thu - January 13, 2005Apple haters, unite!"Apple products suck. 'Cuz like, duh, they totally just suck." Apple haters, unite!
Posted at 02:01 AM Back to | Read more Clean your screenClean
your computer screen, for free, haha! I could not resist.
Posted at 01:58 AM Back to | Read more Thu - December 30, 2004Corporate responsibilityApple
homepage has instead of products lineup the following message: "Our
heart reach out to those hurt by the Indian Ocean tsunamis. Help survivors and
their families by making monetary donations."
Posted at 02:32 AM Back to | Read more Sun - December 19, 2004Tue - December 14, 2004Sun - December 5, 2004Changing cityscapes"New
York Changing, the current body of work by New York City photographer
Douglas Levere, is a photographic record of the ever-changing landscape of New
York City. Guided by Berenice Abbott’s 1930’s project Changing New
York, Levere revisited neighborhoods and former storefronts, documenting the
evolution of the metropolis known for constantly reinventing itself."
Posted at 11:21 AM Back to | Read more Tue - November 30, 2004Make love not SPAM!Ugly as hell, but as sweet as revenge! Time to fight back that ugly
spammers by downloading the Lycos screensaver “that endlessly requests
data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail”
featured by BBC in their ’Screensaver tackles spam websites’
article. There is a Windoze version as well as Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 flavored
versions. Unleash hell upon those assholes!
Posted at 11:57 PM Back to | Read more Sun - November 28, 2004Sun - November 21, 20042001 Designer Site ChecklistThis is a good one: 2001 Designer Site Checklist, for all you design
kinders out there. I had to tick ":: or >> or // used as design
elements," too.
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