This is form.

Check out this poster for the Radiohead benefit for Haiti show. Another nice poster design here.

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A great interview with Jeffery Zeldman of Happy Cog and A List Apart on The Pipeline. Zeldman talks about the first release from A Book Apart, HTML5 For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith, plus a slew of other topics. A great job by Dan Benjamin, looking forward to many more of these.

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We have been working non-stop to make this commercial happen. Anyway, you can watch the teaser here.

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Once again, Apple has chosen a rather poor name for a new product. The idea of the name makes sense, but the real world perception has proven it a poor choice.

I can’t help but think that surely these brilliant minds-behind some of the most well designed and developed products-saw this coming?

the good

The overall look is nice, as it should be. The screen size is about right, it’s thin, light and seems fast. There is some really nice UI work espically in the iBooks app as well as in iTunes and Mail. I think the inclusion of the portrait and landscape mode was important and the new A4 chip looks promising.

the bad

The use of the flash drive is nice, but 64GB won’t last long. The iPhone(esque) home screen looks weak and undeveloped. And the big ones, no multitasking, locked app store. This means you can’t run two apps at the same time, and your limited to what gets approved by Apple. There is the lack of any USB ports and no camera?

the verdict

I think the idea is nice and hopefully round 2 will bring some improvement, but the iPad is a glorified iPod Touch. If you want to watch movies and play with your favorite iPhone/iPod Touch apps on little bit larger screen then I guess this is it, or you could just fork over another couple hundred bucks and get twice the storage and machine with a MackBook Pro.

Maybe next time Apple…

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Interesting interview with Erik Spiekermann on the parallels of webfonts and typesetting. »

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A great video of Keegan Meegan Press & Bindery printing on a platen press. »

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I’m a huge fan of Typekit and the functional quality that it brings to the web. The foundries that are lining up to get their fonts served is proof enough that even the type designers want their work seen. It’s elevating the quality of web design and pushing standards even further.

Recently one of my personal favorites was add to the list, Jos Buivenga of exljbris Font Foundry. His fonts Museo, Museo Sans and Calluna are available for all your viewing pleasure.

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Stumbled upon this nice stop motion short for Field Notes. »

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As a creative or not, I love t-shirts, and the new Ampersandwich Tee by Dan Cedarholm feeds both cravings.

Filed in Design, Shirts, Typography

After reading all of the hype and hate and recouping from the move to Austin, I decided to try it for myself. You should first note that I hate wires and I have owned three of the wireless mighty mouse. My initial response: It is much lighter and feels nice in the hand. The momentum scrolling is I think my favorite part—when not using the magic mouse, scrolling seems weird. I also use the hot corners for exposé so the removed buttons make no difference. The verdict: I like it and recommend it.

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