Let us cling together as the years go by,
Oh my love, my love,
In the quiet of the night
Let our candles always burn,
Let us never lose the lessons we have learned...
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Earworm of the Day: Queen - Teo Toriatte (Let us cling together)
Let us cling together as the years go by,
Oh my love, my love,
In the quiet of the night
Let our candles always burn,
Let us never lose the lessons we have learned...
25 Years of Apple Technology
This post by Alison Bechdel reminded me of the first Mac I worked with in 1987, a Plus at an agency in State College. Crazy to think back on working on such a small monitor, and working with the OS, which at the time was amazing GUI.
I bought a similar Plus model at Surplus and Salvage a few years ago, just out of nostalgia. The first Mac I owned was a LC II, which I did freelancing work on in between the stint at Graphics II and getting hired Penn State in 1993. Today, we have an iMac, iPods, and an iTouch at home, and I use a Tower at work, and my daughter-in-law has an iPad. Apple’s technology and the way it has become ingrained in our lives is fascinating, and I wonder what things will look like in another 25 years.
Triangular Letters
“[T]here was a time when this folding was not considered unusual at all, moreover the mails folded in this way were the most valuable the postman could bring; and, as the story unfolding from the few objects on the picture indicates, for several people they remained more valuable than any other a postman can bring them any more. These are the письма-треугольники, the ‘triangular letters,’ the standard form of soldiers’ correspondence during the Great Patriotic War…”
Read the rest here.
Planned Obsolescence
via fast company“From lightbulbs to iPhones, tech has a history of being produced with planned obsolescence. And our children will never know the alternative…”
Read the rest here.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Business Cards of the Day: Mix and Match
Middle Row: I have a feeling that the cake card is a stock image since the type is seemingly an afterthought. DCNR — pretty typical official government state agency formatting of text. Ranger Onavage is a quite the talker!
Bottom Row: One24 — even looking online, it is hard to tell what this card is about, but it appears to be a get-rich-quick [within 24 months!] scheme. Apparently she is not making enough to get new cards printed and just scratches over the phone number at this point. Maybe in another 24 months she’ll get new cards? The card next to it is for a photographer “of the unusual and extraordinary.” The card reflects the subject matter and tone of the photographs for sale.
Tattly Tuesday
via swissmissEvery Tuesday, Tattly launches 4 new temporary tattoos and this week’s designs are a homage to print design.
More on these can be found here.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Sesame Street and Food Insecurity
via nytimes“The familiar address of Sesame Street is about to get a new visitor, one who could surely benefit from the sunny days and friendly neighbors there. For a prime-time special to raise awareness about hunger faced by American families, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization that produces ‘Sesame Street,’ has created a new Muppet character named Lily, a 7-year-old girl representing one of the 17 million American children that the Department of Agriculture estimates are ‘food insecure,’ meaning their access to food is limited or uncertain…”
Read the rest here.
Pantone's Converted to Process
When an electronic file is sent to the iGen [or other digital presses], it is seeing the swatch names. Even if a Pantone swatch has been converted to process, if the swatch still says "PANTONE 285" or "Pantone Red 032", the iGen is picking that information up and using its own color look-up table for that swatch regardless of any mix or alteration you may have made to that swatch.
If you do convert a Pantone spot to process, be sure to rename it, such as "285_4cMix" or the percentages like "89.43.0.0".
Above is a screen shot, showing a file with Pantone 285 and Pantone Red 032 converted to process, altering the color mixes dramatically, but still keeping the original swatch names. In this case, changing Red 032 to a blue mix, and 285 to a red mix. The resulting printout from the iGen is that what is red on my monitor prints PMS 285 Blue, and what is blue on my monitor prints Pantone Red 032.
Business Cards of the Day: Apple
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| The two on the left are from the early 1980s, one on the right is from this year. Clean designs that range from four color-apples and cool-grey type, to silver foil and black text. |
Monday, October 3, 2011
Business Cards of the Day: Vegan & Vegetarian
After a couple of trips to NYC and a vegetarian festival in Washington, D.C, I had some cards piling up to post. Quite the variety of shapes, sizes, and one is even a sticker [Action for Animals]. The two round ones above [purple and golden yellow] are actually the front and back of the same card for gobo. Very often, The Bacon is Not an Herb card [bottom row] has a QR code sticker on the back as well [seen to the right of that card] — kudos for great eye-catching use of technology!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Jain Running
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Mail-Order Mysteries
via Neato Coolville Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads! by Kirk Demarais.
Watch the book trailer here, more on the book can be found here. His main site is here, with lots of retro items to explore.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Oct. 1: Doritos inventor to be buried with the snack that made him famous
via cnn“Arch West, the Frito-Lay marketing executive credited with inventing Doritos, passed away of natural causes last week at the age of 97, and his family plans to honor his legacy in a lovingly cheesy way. The Dallas Morning News reports that at his graveside, service in Dallas, Texas on October 1, the family will be ‘tossing Doritos chips in before they put the dirt over the urn,’ according to his daughter Jane Hacker. ‘He'll love it,’ she continued…”
Read the rest here, and more here.
Friday, September 30, 2011
The Creative Brain On Exercise
via fast company“For artists, entrepreneurs, and any other driven creators, exercise is a powerful tool in the quest to help transform the persistent uncertainty, fear, and anxiety that accompanies the quest to create from a source of suffering into something less toxic, then potentially even into fuel…”
Read the rest here.
Peter Gabriel: New Blood
via npr“Peter Gabriel's 12th studio album, New Blood, contains re-imaginings of some of his best-known songs — including ‘Solsbury Hill,’ ‘Red Rain’ and ‘Don't Give Up’ — using orchestral arrangements and ambient sound. The album continues a career reinvention he began on Scratch My Back, a covers album with the attached expectation that the covered artists would reciprocate…”
Read the rest and listen to the interview here. Listen to a sneak preview of Red Rain on Peter Gabriel’s site, here.
Vintage Maps Trace the Meandering Mississippi
via a raven“For anyone obsessed with beautiful maps, these colorful and informative examples tracking the many paths of the lower Mississippi are a dream come true. The monumental collection was produced in 1944 by Harold N. Fisk, who drew in a rainbow of colors the path of past and current flows as the mighty river changed course and flooded over time...”
More can be found here.
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