Minimalist pixel chars become Lego Ad? Mar 20, 12, 8:13 a.m.

just noticed pics from this ad campaign being passed around/reposted like crazy the past few days - Lego Minimalist characters 'Imagine' ad. Simpsons, Smurfs, whatever...all sorts of pop culture characters in minimal 3d block form.
But did JVM simply use an idea of some drawings that were floating around over a year ago?

the campaign pics, as seen on countless sites:
http://bitchslapmag.com/2012/rig…

Gizmodo story on Simpsons/Futurama one: http://gizmodo.com/5666584/futur…

A reddit pics post that might be the original? http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/com…

Things to check out in San Fran Aug 21, 08, 5:20 p.m.

Hey all,
I know more than a few of you have visited/hung out in/are from SF --- going to be down there midweek next week through the weekend ....what to do?
going to go down the coast to surf a bit at least one of the days

places to stay people have recommended in the past included: The King George, The Pickwick ....others?

Defo gonna stop in Ritual Roasters for a coffee or two..hehe

NY Times Olympics flag Aug 6, 08, 4:25 a.m.

I like all the great infographics the Times has been putting out (http://www.nytimes.com/interact... ?)

but this I could do without:

I mean, come on ...kind of a slap in the face to what the Olympic rings stand for...even a bit of irony in some ways....

Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro font Jul 3, 08, 9:59 p.m.

argh

this is killing me

what is this font? slanted M, retro .....used ins ome other brand I can't think of right now

design portals dying? why? Dec 16, 07, 3:10 p.m.

just noticed another design portal, lounge72 (http://www.lounge72.com) is closed now. The comment on the PBS remarks about first Pixelsurgeon closing down too.

Curious? why is this happening? is it just the usual turnover, maintainers moving on to other things etc...? or is it something larger like the impact of the massive / major social networks like facebook overtaking more 'niche' portals ........or that there's too many blogs, too many sources of links and discussion on things like delicious and..well, just all the blogs out there...

I don't expect NT, uhh, I mean, QBN to go that way anytime soon...seems quite stable....userbase, new site and all .... but some of those other longtime portals........kaput.....
...surprised K10K has stuck around out of all of them....
DiK is in transition I see now too...

Maybe what it is,... is that the old sites, their maintainers and regular posters etc.... are reaching a threshold, where they must decide if they want to redesign to bring their 'portal' up to more social networking/bookmarking/community standards of interaction, design, etc ...... or risk basically dying a slow death....

random thoughts for the day anyways....

Long live the design portals

book: LOGO by Michael Evamy Dec 9, 07, 10:08 a.m.

http://www.amazon.com/LOGO-Micha…

any good? seems a bit more of a reference book than the showcases that are Los Logos etc...

anyone got this?

new Build site Sep 16, 07, 6:25 p.m.

http://www.wearebuild.com/

new/freshened up site. Interface is interesting .. not used to having that much info from Michael ..... nice to see!

Heavy on the jQuery/js/ajax blah blah ..... not sure why tho ..probably just for that scrolling portfolio effect

Bell Lightbox centre Aug 28, 07, 10:05 p.m.

hmm ... weird choice for a name .. .and check out the logo

New LA Galaxy logo Jul 13, 07, 6:19 p.m.

I like it.
Thought the other one was horrible, embarassing really. And that the MLS team logos mostly need work (a few exceptions, TorontoFC, Colorado, NY)....

Add Beckham to the new logo and now they've got a blazing new branding machine... seriously

http://www.huliq.com/27078/adida…

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/…

Logology Mar 31, 07, 7:30 p.m.

anyone seen this book?
http://victionary.com/

seems like a Los Logos/Tres Logos type deal.....

any good I wonder

Frankfurt? Mar 4, 07, 12:52 p.m.

heading to Frankfurt this week (March 8-11) with some friends from Canada. Looking for nu jazz/broken-beat type events/clubs? anyone? Jazz scene should be fairly decent there ... have some suggestions already ... thought I'd post

dotboom Oct 21, 06, 2:54 p.m.

ha, pretty good guys. web puppets and office stories .... something we all relate to..haha

http://www.dotboom.ca

Get a Mac ads May 2, 06, 6:37 a.m.

Hey -- who's the 'mac' guy in these?

Anyone?

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads…

< new swiss money Nov 24, 05, 8:20 a.m.

http://www.snb.ch/d/banknoten/ne…

Not up on the german etc.... -- what's that all about then? all those designs ? contest or something?

< bad eyes! Nov 22, 05, 6:25 a.m.

http://www.pascii.net/randomized…

ahhhhh! horrible!

that hurt -- I think cause I used to have a few GPs ..... damn
hehe

;-)

superman!!!! Nov 17, 05, 9:02 p.m.

supermaaaannnnnnnnn

bohhhhhhhhhh blargh whaaaaa whoa yes

And they said it was fake

okay, I'm going to bed.

:-)

elite designers vs ikea Oct 3, 05, 7:25 a.m.

what the?!?!

This is a viral ikea campaign isn't it?

http://www.elitedesigners.org/
check it out: pretty good. even though it's mocking a lot of ppl.

Trusted Computing movie Sep 9, 05, 8:10 p.m.

hey?! what happened to this? bandwidth overkill? I can't find a mention or mirror of it anywhere -- it was well done

..was here: http://www.lafkon.net/tc/

... featured in PBS early sept. 09

Wipeout Pure site Sep 2, 05, 6:57 a.m.

hey -- who did the site for Wipeout Pure?
http://www.wipeoutpure.com/

They've had some big names do the graphics and stuff in the past, like TDR etc..... always a hit with me -- looks almost like TDR or Kleber did this one again?

watermelon love Jul 10, 05, 6:41 p.m.

(< PBS)

holy what the!?

watch the movie.

it's maaaad.

And I guess 'Channel 4' is selling those cube watermelons? weeeird.

http://www.channel4.com/culture/…