Fresh take on Cal!

In September photographer Elena Zhukova, her assistant Leon Brauer, and myself spent two days traversing the campus via golf cart in pursuit of capturing the energy, diversity, and spirit of UC Berkeley. The project was spearheaded by UCOP's creative director, Vanessa Corrêa, who is conducting similar photo shoots at each UC campus.


All photos are now available for use in campus publications and websites and can be previewed here.

Please contact Kathryn Bader, Office of Public Affairs, if you'd like a high res version of a particular photo.

UCOP is already using some of these photos, as well as photos from Santa Cruz, on the University of California website.

Visualizing Data

Couple of amazing things here. I feel like he should credit his printer though.

http://jeremychristopherdesign.co.uk/

http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2010/07/23/ftse-100/

Moment of Old Snark

You may've seen this already, but I haven't. And sincere apologies for being "partisan" here... but I found this video criticism amusing and well done from a design standpoint.... If Microsoft Packaged an iPod

Redesigned Album Covers

Witty minimalism.

If Zeppelin were Bauhaus

Proud parent

As some of you know, last year's General Catalog was featured on the 4/27 episode of Parenthood (NBC, Tuesday's at 10 PM).

[I have to admit, it was a little like seeing my kid singing up on stage in their first holiday pageant.]

The printed page is not (quite) dead...

Can the hundred dollar bill get any uglier?

redesign:related brings us the U.S. Government’s latest treatment of Benjamin Franklin’s favorite unit of currency, the one hundred dollar bill.

new 100 dollar bill redesign

Judge for yourself whether the new look is a good or a bad thing, but I've put my vote in the title of this post.

RIP... please?

He's in a much better place now... wish I could say, he lived a good life.

Some remembrances:

He was my grandmother's first internet experience, if you know what I mean ;)

What a rat bastard.

And another:

One cannot say the death was quick, and without pain, but remember we shall the many times IE6 was part of our days.

And:

IE6 was known as a friend, but also as an enemy to many of us. He was a tough guy, always around, even if you didn't need him. And that is exactly how I remember him. As someone who never gave up: Deep inside he must have known a lot of browsers were better than him, but he kept on fighting against them. More and more enemies came to make his life difficult, but with the support of Microsoft he was staying in everyones life. His strong charism even made lot of webdesigners and programmers program code especially for IE6. That must have been very special to him.

Let's remember IE6 with those thoughts... Now it's time to move forward: Life goes on... even without IE6. Thanks (for dying).

To leave your remembrance, click here.

MTV logo zoomed

THE OLD LOGO

I stopped watching MTV about 100 years ago, roughly 80 years before the channel completely gave up on playing music videos. It seems that the cable broadcaster has revised its logo, completely divorcing itself from the notion that MTV has or even has had anything to do with music.

Creative Review - MTV logo changes, stays same

Helveticookies

Helveticookies

Because I can't resist posting any stupid Helvetica-related thing to the DA Blogspot. And I like the word.

I'll try to be more substantive next time!

300&65 Ampersands

I knew there were a lot of ampersands in this world, but one for every day of the year? 300&65 Ampersands

via Daring Fireball

Nice Illustration, H.!

looking for clients in your spare time?

Bring them to you via Brandstack. Post your design, set a price, and lie in wait... and wait... and wait. Or maybe not. I have no idea. But it might be worth a try, considering how many organizations could use a good idea -- and designers who could use a little extra cash right about now...



How often do you get to create the business name and the logo?



How often do you try to sell something you create on a whim?



About Brandstack:

So we built Brandstack and invited designers from all over the world to sell their unused designs at a price that start-ups can afford. An entrepreneur can browse the brands on the site, choose the one that suits them, get it customized by the original designer and download the files. Itʼs quick, value for money and some of the brands even come with their own domain names for a great head start. All brands are original and removed from the site once sold.

The process is still collaborative but the entrepreneur says goodbye to the brief and in return gets a world-class brand at a rate they can afford and the designer gets paid for a brand that was previously sitting idle.

Brandstack. Everybody wins.

Really? That would be refreshing.

The Ikea Outcry: "Verdana!? For shame!"

Latest Ikea Design Has Critics Fuming August 30, 2009
Ikea, the Swedish furniture chain, said Sunday it never expected such a backlash after switching typeface in its latest catalog.

What can't Google Maps do?

Replace the world with your work and create a zoomable portfolio via Google Maps.

Google Maps Mania: Design Portfolios on Google Maps

It's like Wikipedia…

…but for type!

Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces

HTML tables + color = design

via Townsend Center for the Humanities

Talk amongst yourselves...

Have you visited Type*Daily?

It’s like popurls, but just for type!

Type*Daily: Typography, fonts, & lettering news aggregator

Have you ever been unable to delete a swatch in InDesign?

I finally found an easy solution posted at InDesign Secrets Blog... Here it is:

Elizabeth Lass
November 28th, 2007 • 3:53 am • Link
Hi, This actually happens to me quite a bit. I found a good trick online quite a while ago, and I’d like to give them credit, but I’m afraid I can’t locate the source. But the trick goes like this:
When a spot cannot be deleted from the swatches palette, and you know for sure it’s not in use by any artwork, create a rectangle and fill it with the offending swatch. Cut the object and paste it into a new doc with no other swatches. Save it as a PDF set to “Press” or “Print” (don’t let the color be converted). Place that PDF into your original doc, then delete it. In my experience, the bad swatch will now be ‘unlocked’ and you can trash it in the palette. IMO, this is faster than saving over to INX, and shouldn’t cause any further problems. {Thanks for the awesome blog and podcast, btw!!}

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It really works.

Coffee Cups - a set on Flickr

Styrofoam coffee cups and a black Sharpie marker. Damn—these are good:

Coffee Cups - a set on Flickr

Yammer?

Yammer is the "Twitter" for businesses.
I'm using it in our department to share common files... the kinds of identity images frequently used in PowerPoint presentations or Word docs.

It's already restricted to the "@berkeley.edu" community, but you can also set up a Private Group visible only to people you invite in. I don't quite remember how I got in, but try signing in here... Sign in with your berkeley email.

More About Yammer

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When Is Social Networking Kosher In The Office?

National Public Radio – November 24, 2008

"Essentially, what it's allowed us to do is have a lot more conversations without necessarily having meetings," says David Sacks, CEO of Yammer. "And you want to reserve e-mail for communications where you really do require a response. But if you just want to have a free-form discussion, Yammer really excels in that."

Read and listen to more at National Public Radio