Up until today I hadn’t seen anything really impressive as far as the user or listener experience goes, plenty of advances on the production side but little intriguing on the consumer side. With the introduction of applications such as the AmpliTube iRig and the BreakOut pedal and app the focus of new devices such as [...]
I hate celebrity endorsement ads. At their worst, they’re either lazy or just plain pandering. You know the ones I’m talking about: this guy drinks this stuff, and he’s really fast, so you should too–maybe you’ll also be fast. That sort of crap. The shame of it all is that it probably works. Like this [...]
Over the last couple years, I’ve been really interested in studying the role of typography within photography — looking at how different people capture type within an image. Walker Evans, widely considered the originator of the documentary tradition in American photography (with many thanks owed to his appreciation and collection of the picture postcard), is [...]
Last Friday I left the City of Brotherly Love for a trip to the American South. For my first ever visit to Alabama, I was heading to Greensboro to volunteer a couple days of my design time alongside a friend who works with HERO (Hale Empowerment & Revitalization Organization), a non-profit housing resource center. Greensboro [...]
I don’t know if anyone followed the The Dark Knight viral campaign a few years ago, but it was pretty awesome. An entire viral marketing campaign was developed for the movie that included promotional websites and trailers highlighting screen shots of Heath Ledger as the Joker Looks like today, another viral campaign was started for [...]
Going through a German newspaper this morning I came across a story that not only sparked my interest to dig a little deeper but also made me think this is so crazy it’s worth it to share. The following story is about Mike the headless chicken or also known as Miracle Mike. A Wyandotte chicken [...]
