Apple: don’t be evil!

The iPhone was one of those gadgets that had me checking my couch cushions just to make sure there wasn’t an extra 600 bucks lying around. I tried one out at an AT&T store. I watched the reviews, the lines of people waiting to get the first ones, the post-debut buzz. I read the article [...]

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Veterans of alien wars

A new tv spot for Halo3 is set in a museum with two elderly veterans answering questions about the weapons they used back in the war. It doesn’t take long to figure out that these guys aren’t talking about World War 2. At one point one of the guys picks up an enemy weapon and [...]

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Sport for designers

Coudal Partners is hosting an unusual game this coming Friday (September 28) and Friday afternoons all Fall for CS3 fans. Featuring a new name, Layer Tennis, this game involves teams of two designers “volleying” a design back and forth as each embellishes the design using a CS3 app and provided raw elements. The result of [...]

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When iconography goes wrong

Historically, Photoshop and its Adobe pals have been identifiable by their varied but similar icons: Illustrator used the “Birth of Venus” in a variety of different abstractions, Photoshop used the eyeball and beach montage, then later the rainbow feather. With CS3 an entirely new set of icons was developed, which some have described as “Periodic [...]

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Something different!

Apple recently did a profile on designer/artist Joshua Davis and his “dynamic abstraction” style. Using a process of collecting shapes from the world around him, writing programs to generate compositions out of the shapes and then generating final output in a variety of media, essentially he creates complex collages of color, symbol and abstraction.
The result [...]

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