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Archive for November 2007

links for 2007-11-14 through 2007-11-16

Adobe CS3 Install: Punishing Experience -
Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Breaks Down His Kung Fu Samples by Film and Song -
Vanity Fair covers - by Annie Leibovitz

links for 2007-11-11 through 2007-11-12

G4 / AOTS / Lesbionic Woman - a parody of a show I haven’t even watched yet. I think I like this version more.
The Nerd Handbook - the funniest thing i’ve read in a long time.
Joss Whedon from the Front Lines - weighing in on the WGA strike

PSST! Things First.

Bran Dougherty-Johnson from Grow Design Work and PSST! Pass It On writes on his blog about creating an organization based on two previous manifestos here and here. If you wish to comment/discuss, you should do so on his blog.
It’s a good read and it’s getting some response, maybe it will get some steam. I’ve [...]

links for 2007-11-10

Audioengine - Powered stereo speakers.
Firmastyle - Moscow design and motion graphics
By Default Dot Org - New York based designer, Anisa Suthayalai
the c4d base - Tips & Tricks, Textures and Tutorials for Cinema4d and Xpresso

links for 2007-11-08 through 2007-11-09

rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs - if only there were powerpoints too.
Motorola Razr2 / Gondry’s Dream - a site for the making of the spot
three legged feed - Directors/Animators Three Legged Legs Blog
Naked light - Non-desructive, node-based compositing, infinite resolution image editor.
Sleevage - Blog covering Album Cover Art.
Animation Backgrounds - dedicated to the [...]

Commercial work has always paid the bills, but many graphic designers have now let it become, in large measure, what graphic designers do. This, in turn, is how the world perceives design. The profession’s time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential at best.
max bruinsma via Bran

links for 2007-11-06 through 2007-11-07

WidescreenMailPlugin - two-column vertical view plugin for Mail.app, now with two-line preview.
Showdown at Fort Sumner - the Paramount/Dreamworks breakup.
This is not a weblog - free thoughts on lettering and type

Twittered on 2007-11-05

thanks @riondotnu for being most awesome for the ffffound invite! now, has anyone been able to put their ffffound feed into tumblr? #
rip to Cali for holidays for myself. #
Just realized Xmas is 7 weeks away. Already pre-calculating all my paychecks foe the rest of the year seeing if I can buy all the gifts [...]

links for 2007-11-03 through 2007-11-05

Multicolored and Multilingual - a pictorial tour of exotic color names.
Dobak Zsolt // aka. Hicky2 - Graphic design and digit artist
Atmostheory - The Graphic Work of Christopher David Ryan
Layout Gala - a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download.
TaskPaper - Getting Things Done without distraction

Twittered on 2007-11-04

Watching Motion Panel at OFFF, Orion from Buck, Vivian from Tronic, Marco from Psyop and more speaking. #
Watching Rob Chiu & DSTRUKT present kick ass work. #

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