These are my del.icio.us links for August 28th from 18:46 to 18:46:

• Don’t Drink and Drive – Excellent piece of ambient marketing here. There’s a car printed on the beer bottle cap. Opening the beer ‘crashes’ the car. The ‘don’t drink and drive’ message is reinforced on the underside.

These are my del.icio.us links for August 28th from 00:19 to 00:19:

• ReCoat Gallery 15.08.08 – Elph, Sheone, Otwo, Lyken, Rekor and Stefan Plaetz did a bit of painting on the wall beside Glasgow’s ReCoat Gallery earlier this month. Nice to see a photomontage of the whole piece, and especially nice to see a cut-off crate of beer poking in at the bottom.

These are my del.icio.us links for August 11th from 22:29 to 22:29:

• Forget the Film, Watch the Titles – SubmarineChannel’s collection of movie title sequences does exactly what it says on the tin: lets you watch the titles, enjoying the art of the motion graphic designer without needing to worry about the tedious couple of hours that usually follow.

These are my del.icio.us links for August 5th from 08:00 to 08:00:

• Grids are good – Khoi Vin and Mark Boulton on practical grid use online. Two great designers and communicators explaining some basics. Good stuff. (PDF link)
• The End – I really like Scott Wenner’s series of The End paintings/collages, but can’t quite shake the fact that Ed Ruscha did the exact same thing better quite a few years ago.
• Premiere issues – Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture pointed me towards this growing archive of magazine launch issues. All kinds of magazines, any genre at all, but the very first issue of each. Lovely.
• How a page gets created – Time-lapse screenshots of Matt Wiley working and reworking the design of a four-page article in the Royal Academy magazine. As Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture says; an instantly recognisable process to any magazine designer.
• Interesting 2008 – The Guardian are graciously hosting some video content from Interesting 2008.
• Baja BBQ Firepack – Brilliant, inspiring product design. Single-use barbecue charcoal, packaged in a recycled pulp container that acts as firelighter and includes a 'chimney' hole to encourage fast, hot burning before it disappears.
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Clay Shirky gets to the crux of our current social state over at WorldChanging. Fudamental change in society frees up people’s time, which they fill with nonsense at first: Gin in 1700s England, TV in our recent history.
• Design books for sale – Just in case anyone reading is interested, I recently put a bunch books from my design-related bookshelves up for sale on Amazon Marketplace. Link in the title.
• Commands – Witty typographic screenprints for Apple geeks, using common shortcut commands within well-worn phrases.
• Sign of the Economy/Economy of the Sign – The new Weiden + Kennedy offices in London sport some beautifully economical toilet sign icons.
• Monocle: design notes – The verbose but supremely smart Dan Hill has left Monocle after their first year. These are his notes on the design and structure of Monocle’s online presence. Great stuff.
• Interesting 2008? – It looks like Russell Davies is planning to do it again. 2007’s gathering of interesting people was fantastic.
• The Charms of Wikipedia – Nicholson Baker is a brilliant writer. Here at The New York Review of Books his review of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual becomes a fascinating essay on Wikipedia itself. Good start-of-the-week reading.
• Garfield minus Garfield – Reimaginings of Garfield comic strips have been done (very well) before, but this take is particularly good. Remove the cat and you’re left with Jon Arbuckle in the throes of an existential crisis.
• The Optimist's Almanac – Two good ideas here: Resurrecting ye olde format of an almanac as a daily blog, and Richard Wilson’s central conceit of posting one bad thing from history on this day, then following it with something far more cheerful.

These are my del.icio.us links for August 4th from 08:00 to 08:00:

• Grids are good – Khoi Vin and Mark Boulton on practical grid use online. Two great designers and communicators explaining some basics. Good stuff. (PDF link)
• The End – I really like Scott Wenner’s series of The End paintings/collages, but can’t quite shake the fact that Ed Ruscha did the exact same thing better quite a few years ago.
• Premiere issues – Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture pointed me towards this growing archive of magazine launch issues. All kinds of magazines, any genre at all, but the very first issue of each. Lovely.
• How a page gets created – Time-lapse screenshots of Matt Wiley working and reworking the design of a four-page article in the Royal Academy magazine. As Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture says; an instantly recognisable process to any magazine designer.
• Interesting 2008 – The Guardian are graciously hosting some video content from Interesting 2008.
• Baja BBQ Firepack – Brilliant, inspiring product design. Single-use barbecue charcoal, packaged in a recycled pulp container that acts as firelighter and includes a 'chimney' hole to encourage fast, hot burning before it disappears.
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Clay Shirky gets to the crux of our current social state over at WorldChanging. Fudamental change in society frees up people’s time, which they fill with nonsense at first: Gin in 1700s England, TV in our recent history.
• Design books for sale – Just in case anyone reading is interested, I recently put a bunch books from my design-related bookshelves up for sale on Amazon Marketplace. Link in the title.
• Commands – Witty typographic screenprints for Apple geeks, using common shortcut commands within well-worn phrases.
• Sign of the Economy/Economy of the Sign – The new Weiden + Kennedy offices in London sport some beautifully economical toilet sign icons.
• Monocle: design notes – The verbose but supremely smart Dan Hill has left Monocle after their first year. These are his notes on the design and structure of Monocle’s online presence. Great stuff.
• Interesting 2008? – It looks like Russell Davies is planning to do it again. 2007’s gathering of interesting people was fantastic.
• The Charms of Wikipedia – Nicholson Baker is a brilliant writer. Here at The New York Review of Books his review of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual becomes a fascinating essay on Wikipedia itself. Good start-of-the-week reading.
• Garfield minus Garfield – Reimaginings of Garfield comic strips have been done (very well) before, but this take is particularly good. Remove the cat and you’re left with Jon Arbuckle in the throes of an existential crisis.
• The Optimist's Almanac – Two good ideas here: Resurrecting ye olde format of an almanac as a daily blog, and Richard Wilson’s central conceit of posting one bad thing from history on this day, then following it with something far more cheerful.

These are my del.icio.us links for August 3rd from 08:00 to 08:00:

• Grids are good – Khoi Vin and Mark Boulton on practical grid use online. Two great designers and communicators explaining some basics. Good stuff. (PDF link)
• The End – I really like Scott Wenner’s series of The End paintings/collages, but can’t quite shake the fact that Ed Ruscha did the exact same thing better quite a few years ago.
• Premiere issues – Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture pointed me towards this growing archive of magazine launch issues. All kinds of magazines, any genre at all, but the very first issue of each. Lovely.
• How a page gets created – Time-lapse screenshots of Matt Wiley working and reworking the design of a four-page article in the Royal Academy magazine. As Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture says; an instantly recognisable process to any magazine designer.
• Interesting 2008 – The Guardian are graciously hosting some video content from Interesting 2008.
• Baja BBQ Firepack – Brilliant, inspiring product design. Single-use barbecue charcoal, packaged in a recycled pulp container that acts as firelighter and includes a 'chimney' hole to encourage fast, hot burning before it disappears.
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Clay Shirky gets to the crux of our current social state over at WorldChanging. Fudamental change in society frees up people’s time, which they fill with nonsense at first: Gin in 1700s England, TV in our recent history.
• Design books for sale – Just in case anyone reading is interested, I recently put a bunch books from my design-related bookshelves up for sale on Amazon Marketplace. Link in the title.
• Commands – Witty typographic screenprints for Apple geeks, using common shortcut commands within well-worn phrases.
• Sign of the Economy/Economy of the Sign – The new Weiden + Kennedy offices in London sport some beautifully economical toilet sign icons.
• Monocle: design notes – The verbose but supremely smart Dan Hill has left Monocle after their first year. These are his notes on the design and structure of Monocle’s online presence. Great stuff.
• Interesting 2008? – It looks like Russell Davies is planning to do it again. 2007’s gathering of interesting people was fantastic.
• The Charms of Wikipedia – Nicholson Baker is a brilliant writer. Here at The New York Review of Books his review of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual becomes a fascinating essay on Wikipedia itself. Good start-of-the-week reading.
• Garfield minus Garfield – Reimaginings of Garfield comic strips have been done (very well) before, but this take is particularly good. Remove the cat and you’re left with Jon Arbuckle in the throes of an existential crisis.
• The Optimist's Almanac – Two good ideas here: Resurrecting ye olde format of an almanac as a daily blog, and Richard Wilson’s central conceit of posting one bad thing from history on this day, then following it with something far more cheerful.

These are my del.icio.us links for August 2nd from 08:00 to 08:00:

• Grids are good – Khoi Vin and Mark Boulton on practical grid use online. Two great designers and communicators explaining some basics. Good stuff. (PDF link)
• The End – I really like Scott Wenner’s series of The End paintings/collages, but can’t quite shake the fact that Ed Ruscha did the exact same thing better quite a few years ago.
• Premiere issues – Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture pointed me towards this growing archive of magazine launch issues. All kinds of magazines, any genre at all, but the very first issue of each. Lovely.
• How a page gets created – Time-lapse screenshots of Matt Wiley working and reworking the design of a four-page article in the Royal Academy magazine. As Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture says; an instantly recognisable process to any magazine designer.
• Interesting 2008 – The Guardian are graciously hosting some video content from Interesting 2008.
• Baja BBQ Firepack – Brilliant, inspiring product design. Single-use barbecue charcoal, packaged in a recycled pulp container that acts as firelighter and includes a 'chimney' hole to encourage fast, hot burning before it disappears.
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Clay Shirky gets to the crux of our current social state over at WorldChanging. Fudamental change in society frees up people’s time, which they fill with nonsense at first: Gin in 1700s England, TV in our recent history.
• Design books for sale – Just in case anyone reading is interested, I recently put a bunch books from my design-related bookshelves up for sale on Amazon Marketplace. Link in the title.
• Commands – Witty typographic screenprints for Apple geeks, using common shortcut commands within well-worn phrases.
• Sign of the Economy/Economy of the Sign – The new Weiden + Kennedy offices in London sport some beautifully economical toilet sign icons.
• Monocle: design notes – The verbose but supremely smart Dan Hill has left Monocle after their first year. These are his notes on the design and structure of Monocle’s online presence. Great stuff.
• Interesting 2008? – It looks like Russell Davies is planning to do it again. 2007’s gathering of interesting people was fantastic.
• The Charms of Wikipedia – Nicholson Baker is a brilliant writer. Here at The New York Review of Books his review of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual becomes a fascinating essay on Wikipedia itself. Good start-of-the-week reading.
• Garfield minus Garfield – Reimaginings of Garfield comic strips have been done (very well) before, but this take is particularly good. Remove the cat and you’re left with Jon Arbuckle in the throes of an existential crisis.
• The Optimist's Almanac – Two good ideas here: Resurrecting ye olde format of an almanac as a daily blog, and Richard Wilson’s central conceit of posting one bad thing from history on this day, then following it with something far more cheerful.

These are my del.icio.us links for August 1st from 08:00 to 08:00:

• Grids are good – Khoi Vin and Mark Boulton on practical grid use online. Two great designers and communicators explaining some basics. Good stuff. (PDF link)
• The End – I really like Scott Wenner’s series of The End paintings/collages, but can’t quite shake the fact that Ed Ruscha did the exact same thing better quite a few years ago.
• Premiere issues – Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture pointed me towards this growing archive of magazine launch issues. All kinds of magazines, any genre at all, but the very first issue of each. Lovely.
• How a page gets created – Time-lapse screenshots of Matt Wiley working and reworking the design of a four-page article in the Royal Academy magazine. As Jeremy Leslie at MagCulture says; an instantly recognisable process to any magazine designer.
• Interesting 2008 – The Guardian are graciously hosting some video content from Interesting 2008.
• Baja BBQ Firepack – Brilliant, inspiring product design. Single-use barbecue charcoal, packaged in a recycled pulp container that acts as firelighter and includes a 'chimney' hole to encourage fast, hot burning before it disappears.
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Clay Shirky gets to the crux of our current social state over at WorldChanging. Fudamental change in society frees up people’s time, which they fill with nonsense at first: Gin in 1700s England, TV in our recent history.
• Design books for sale – Just in case anyone reading is interested, I recently put a bunch books from my design-related bookshelves up for sale on Amazon Marketplace. Link in the title.
• Commands – Witty typographic screenprints for Apple geeks, using common shortcut commands within well-worn phrases.
• Sign of the Economy/Economy of the Sign – The new Weiden + Kennedy offices in London sport some beautifully economical toilet sign icons.
• Monocle: design notes – The verbose but supremely smart Dan Hill has left Monocle after their first year. These are his notes on the design and structure of Monocle’s online presence. Great stuff.
• Interesting 2008? – It looks like Russell Davies is planning to do it again. 2007’s gathering of interesting people was fantastic.
• The Charms of Wikipedia – Nicholson Baker is a brilliant writer. Here at The New York Review of Books his review of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual becomes a fascinating essay on Wikipedia itself. Good start-of-the-week reading.
• Garfield minus Garfield – Reimaginings of Garfield comic strips have been done (very well) before, but this take is particularly good. Remove the cat and you’re left with Jon Arbuckle in the throes of an existential crisis.
• The Optimist's Almanac – Two good ideas here: Resurrecting ye olde format of an almanac as a daily blog, and Richard Wilson’s central conceit of posting one bad thing from history on this day, then following it with something far more cheerful.