Tilt-Shift is All the Rage

Get that Tilt-Shift look without the mess of lenses! AlienSkin offers a handy-dandy hack.

Wow. Typography.

Type is boring, right? Okay, maybe the way I use it. On the other hand, PSDtuts+ has 53 examples of Mind-blowing Uses of Typography that will have you kowtowing and saying, “We’re not worthy. We’re not worthy.”

27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis

Will charts help take the sting out of watching our mortgages, jobs, and 401(k)s spiral down the drain? Have a gander at
27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis and let me know.

via FlowingData

Periodic Table of Typefaces

More art than science—but definitely all geek—download the JPEG Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces from Squidspot.

via Lifehacker

A photo is worth a thousand...

tons of garbage.

What are we THINKING?

This amazing series is by artist Chris Jordan, of Seattle.

He calls it "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait."

As astonishing as his statistics are, what he has done with them is even
more astonishing.

via email forwarded to me by Connie Torii; courtesy of Karl K

Pepsi Logo Response - artwork by Lawrence Yang

A fun interpretation of the new Pepsi logo. Now, when I see the new Pepsi logo I can’t help but see the same thing.

Pepsi Logo Response - artwork by Lawrence Yang

Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament

via email from Roland

One of my colleagues invited me via Facebook to the Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament

Although I've never heard of it, it looks interesting.

It is happening in San Francisco:

WHEN:
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Doors open 5:30 PM
Show starts 6:00 PM

WHERE:
The Galleria
101 Henry Adams St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

San Francisco will host competitions in 2D, 3D, and Motion Graphics for Digital Design Tournament 2009. See the Competition Formats page for the rules and details of each of these platforms. When you're ready to roll, enter the Call for Competitors here. Judges from all three design disciplines will be announced in the coming weeks. Check back soon to find out who will be hovering over our competitors' shoulders onstage.

Roland