Some marketing genius has taken a simple web application of the, now famous, Atheist bus slogan campaign and made it completely available for the masses. I salute you good sir.
Make your own slogan at the Bus Slogan Generator. Photo credit: Jon Worth c/o atheistbus.org.uk
Or see mine, after this tiny little, insignificant…. jump!
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Shocked and awed was my feeling when i saw a pingback on my wordpress dashboard early this morning. My logo “re-”design for We Heart It was mentioned for a shout out to the photo sharing community site. Thanks, Really Good Magazine, for the exposure. I should buy you a cup of coffee!
UPDATE: Someone just pointed out to me that my name’s missing a ‘D’ in it, but hey. i’m not complaining! Thanks again reallygoodmagazine.com
Any of you Southern California residents out there that may have taken a nice roundhouse kick to the left temple may appreciate this little slab of cold steak to nurse that wound! Time Warner Cable is offering 1¢ Movies on demand from a pretty decent selection of 30 movies through their On Demand service. Being a So Cal resident myself… and being a poor artist… i salute you Time Warner. We may have had our feuds in the past, like that one time when you locked up on my and fast forwarded my DVR all the way to the end of my show while i got a nice 2x speed, soundless viewing of Top Chef (and again during 24), but this totally wipes the slate clean. Thanks!
The service seems to be only on Valentine’s Day, but what else are you doing in So Cal? I mean, you could go to Morton’s Steakhouse any old night, right? Pfshhh.
Now, you may be asking yourself, “But, Luke, why are you promoting Time Warner Cable? That doesn’t have anything to do with design!” to which i would reply “You’re right, especially judging by that landing page, yuck! but, this is pure MARKETING genius.” Here’s a company that realizes that most of it’s viewers will be out of the house, or not watching television, so they give them a great incentive to keep the viewership high in the times when they predict it being low. All my speculation of course, but that’s why I’m featuring this, my dirty little secret is that i am in love with marketing.
Click here for details from the mouth of the horse itself.
Thank you @ADramaticMommy via Twitter for the tip!
Anyone in the design world has probably seen a pretty awesome design for a typographic word cloud. Well, Wordle.net has made it too simple to not try to build your own! It took me literally 2 minutes (or less if i wasn’t being picky) to build a simple word cloud from my sites RSS feed. Go ahead, give it a try. Leave me a comment to your saved gallery so i can take a peek! (or a screenshot if you’re savvy)
Full size screen capture of my “wordle” after the jump.
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Here’s an interesting site dedicated to Quotes on Designers. You can even add your own if you’d like.
Couple personal favorites:
Via One Plus Infinity [via SwissMiss]
Of course with no money exchanging hands, purely a project of mine to see if i could “update” their logo. Fully built in Illustrator CS2, this image is 100% vector and scalable to any size.
‘we heart it’ is just as it’s name says… a site that allows you to tag any photo on the web that inspires you, that you like or you just find interesting. Simple enough to manage and fun to browse. Build yourself a community and manage your own RSS feed of images you “heart”. Give it a try, and if you sign up add me as a contact and have fun browsing my “heart”. Also, leave me a comment and let me know your user name so that i can follow you too!
In my previous post (literally) i was toying around with my RSS feed footer. Trying to integrate the “community” of Design and networking that i have come to love. Well, i’m happy to report that all has worked. So if you’re a subscriber, i hope you enjoy the visuals (and don’t worry, they’re extremely low load time 12kb for the whole set) and if you’re not a subscriber (yet) then shame on you! haha. just kidding, but you should probably subscribe. i’ve been known to be called awesome. I’m just saying.
So, without further blabbering by me, here’s your american-idol-esque moment…. right after this jump!
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I just spent a little bit of time trying to edit my RSS feed footer. Lets hope this works.
I’d love some feedback. After the jump are the images i’ve made to go along with my RSS footer.
Finally. someone has heard the plea of designers and programers across the world!! Everyone who works long hours slaving over a computer screen knows the “zone” in which saving becomes less and less important because you feel as if it will break your zen. I doubt it’s just me who feels this way. I’ve gone from concept to completion on a few project all the while forgetting that happy little command+S… and don’t get me wrong, it sure has bitten me in the ass on more than one occasion.
Scenario: Working on a magazine layout for Churm Media, still being stuck in Quark without the wonderful auto-recover features of InDesign, while being in the “zone” and working for 30 minutes plus to finally come up against the beach ball… the ohh-so-hated beach ball. So, i wait… hope… wait some more, only to have the next screen fade from my yes and the “send error report” window taunt me like a little demon who knows the failure of my non-saving ways. Flash forward to THIS little helper, EverSave.
EverSave… is a free application for the Mac which saves your documents on regular intervals based on your preferences. You can save on all applications or just a select few and most importantly it seems to work with any application!
Thank you SwissMiss [via The Next Web [via lifehacker [via Cool OSX Apps]]] for this AMAZING product… and it’s FREE!
My dear love for tutorial doage (yes, that’s now a word) keeps my skills sharp and my knowledge of all things graphic design high. I generally browse through the tutorials pages looking for something to catch my eye that gives me a sense of “how can i incorporate that into one of my Magazine layouts.” On this particular day i was looking through Photoshop Lady’s website to see what new and exciting things the graphic design community had come up with this week. Low and behold, there it was. A Gel Button effect in photoshop to rival MANY gel button tutorials on the “market”. And trust me, i’ve done many of them. Most of them good, and get you to the goal you’re set out for, but this one had so much glamour that i knew i’d have to see how it was accomplished. So, not to bore you with the details or to try and explain the steps i’ll just give you a link so you can test for yourself. All in all, once i got a subject for the ‘logo’, this tutorial took me about 5-10 minutes, then add another 5 for personal tweaks and adjustments.
So without further ado, here’s my rendition of the tutorial (via 3nhanced)…. after the jump [click image for full size].
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Playing my own little game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon led me to an image, which inspired this little “re-design” or complete design guessing how you interpret it.
Okay, now let’s explain… I was on my google reader (1), found a link through we heart it (2), Liked what one of the users was “hearting” and clicked through to his profile to find the original photo (3), which was a link through a ffffound site (4), via flickr user shaderlab (5). Pretty fun ehh? So, i have to give credit where credit is due. I didn’t QUITE get my full 6 degrees, but if you count opening the browser as 1 i can cheat my score a little i guess.
On a side note, the Oracle of Bacon website will let you play your own game of Six Degrees. I was never able to get more than a bacon score of 3!! So, if you play around with some names and happen to get a good combo, leave me a comment with the names.
Full size image after the jump.
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