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Do not pass go do not collect $200

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Welcome to the itunes store. Now go home.

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.

We’re not into Intuit

Friday, June 18th, 2010

We'll be back soon with more shenanigans.

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.

Nuclear Security Summit Logo

Monday, April 19th, 2010

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, Illustrator Dies

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Yellow Submarine

Yellow Submarine


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.

Texas License an Embarrassment

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
New design for Texas drivers license

New design for Texas drivers license

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

SXSW Poster

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

One Night Only by Ward Sutton

One Night Only by Ward Sutton


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