Sleeveface
Where, as sleeveface.com explains, one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion. Some of our favorites:
Now You’re Thinking With Petabytes
Great explanatory graph of the petabyte from Reinforcement:
WordPress Summer Of Our Discontent Hack
Oh what a fun week it’s been! If you’re unlucky enough, you may have been infected by the latest hack to attack WordPress installs. It’s not hitting WordPress directly exactly, but rather it’s coming in through a file called timthumb.php. …
Vintage Ads: The Way We Were
Years ago we invested in a library of books that featured advertisements broken out by decade, and will admittedly revisit them from time-to-time for inspiration: layout, colors, fonts, all a great exhibit for what worked before, and some re-emerging trends that tend to be cyclical.
Gap Undergoes Rebranding and We Don’t Get it
Gap launched a new logo today without so much as a press release on point, and on first glance we sort of understand why. And maybe we’re being big logo-haters lately, but there are still plenty of designers and companies out there that dare to be great, so it seems we’re just experiencing a flood of less-than in recent months.
Robotic cat playroom at OHS
Play with cats at the Oregon Humane Society using ROBOTS – and you thought you were going to get some work done today…
Drake’s D+ Campaign Flunks Out
A “D+” campaign logo conceived by Drake University to encouraging recruitment wound up getting a failing grade from some faculty, students and alumni, and eventually was pulled from the college’s website promotions.
Google gives $1M to the bicycle monorail
Two years ago Google launched the 10^100 project to give millions to fund ideas that will change the world, and last week the winners were announced. Shweeb — seriously, that’s what it’s called — was one of the top five pitched ideas in the category of innovation in public transport that earned itself a stackable $1 million to develop its idea. And before we go any further, look at it. Just LOOK:
Democrat Rebranding Scores a “Meh”
Bracing for the November elections, Democrats have taken on a full-spectrum battle plan and launched a whole new brand campaign. The problem? It’s a little visually underwhelming. They’ve retained the “Change That Matters” tagline from the last elections, but the familiar DNC-over-a-flag letter logo has been replaced by a simple circle with the letter “D” inside.
textorizer – Turn Words into Art
Textorizer, a program that allows you to make pictures formed with text, is a fun little tool for getting creative with your photos. There’s a simple online interface where you can pick your image, insert your text and the generator will quickly do all of the work for you… but if you’re looking to dive a little deeper into image options, you can download the program directly to your computer and really go nuts with it.