The music industry is funny. Apple’s itunes store is not so. There is a great deal of music that is not offered in the itunes store in the US but is available from itunes stores in other countries. Apple lets you go to itunes stores in other countries but doesn’t let you buy anything. They give you a dialog box that forces you to go back to the US store. Not very user friendly.

Quickbooks has a nice little feature where they route emails through their servers if you want to send an invoice. They use this to force you to upgrade to the latest version of their software. If you don’t upgrade, they turn it off. Yesterday their servers went down and as a result all their users could not send out invoices yesterday. Nice work intuit. Having a monopoly must good.

Fox News has discovered that the latest Nuclear Security Summit logo has a secret Muslim agenda. John Stewart does a pretty good review of the issue on the Daily Show.

Heinz Edelmann was the chief designer for the Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine. He died on Tuesday. He was a great illustrator and graphic designer.

Read more about him on the New York Times.

The Texas drivers license just got a makeover. It is uglier than the last. If Texas wants to improve its standing in the design world then they need to get a good Texas design firm to design their drivers license and safety inspection sticker. They have been poor for years and reflect badly on the great state of Texas. If they can get outside firms to do advertisements why can’t they do the same for graphic design?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6387283.html

The film and interactive part of SXSW are winding down today. The Music part is on the way! Ward Sutton is a poster artist who did a SXSW poster 10 years ago. I think it is brilliant! Be sure to check out the Flatstock show

Flatstock

Ward Sutton