Could this user-created take on a-ha’s 1985 hit Take on Me be the start of a new YouTube meme? I certainly hope so. Also, for the record, I had no idea the band was from Norway.
My wife and I have been catching every episode of True Blood and, although it’s not perfect, we’re enjoying it quite a bit. The character development is a little lacking and they’ve missed an opportunity to do really cinematic images of the South, but it’s fun to watch all the same. The one aspect of the show that is perfect is the opening title sequence by Digital Kitchen. The imagery, pace and music do an excellent job of setting the scene and providing the overall tone. I don’t watch a whole lot of television these days, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think these are some of the best titles I’ve seen since Six Feet Under—which is fitting since both shows feature Alan Ball as Executive Producer.
Terry Richardson and Barack Obama from a 2007 photo shoot for Vice Magazine. [via deleteyourself.]
The logo for Interesting Vancouver
Interesting Vancouver is shaping up to be an amazing evening and Brett Macfarlane has done an excellent job pulling everything together. I’m happy to be playing a small role spreading the word, recruiting speakers and designing the logo for the event.
If you’re familiar with Interesting, you may recognize the logo from the inaugural event that Russell Davies organized in London in 2007. The original logo was designed by Ben Terret and I fell in love with it when I first came across it in an issue of Creative Review. My familiarity with the logo made it difficult to take things in a new direction, and in the end, I decided it wasn’t necessary—the Vancouver event is built upon the previous event, and there’s no reason the logo shouldn’t be. So, using the existing type style as a guide, I created the extra letters needed for the name Vancouver and, to add a little playfulness, I reversed the word Interesting. That fact that the two words aligned when stacked was just a stroke of luck, but it made things much easier.
As with the original logo, we’re releasing this logo to the public to remix and reuse as they please:
Interesting Vancouver Logo [.eps]
If you end up using the logo, let us know (appropriate tags would be interestingvancouver and interestingvancouver08). If you haven’t got your tickets yet, now would be the time.
Hopefully I’ll see you there.
Here is a collection of ads running before the films in the 2008 Vancouver International Film Festival. Excellent work by TBWA\Vancouver.
When Google launched their Chart API I had panned to spend a bit of time playing with it, but time was tight and I quickly forgot about it. With the current economic crisis in America and the doomsday graphs that accompany each article about it, I was reminded of the Chart API and have taken a quick look at it. Man, it’s dead easy. While the Venn Diagram to the left isn’t the most complex, it took about two minutes to create.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
—Steve Jobs, 2003
I listen to a number of podcasts every week and have recently added another to my must-hear list. The Moth is a non-profit, story-telling organization in New York and their podcast is a collection of some of their best stories from the past 11 years. I’ve only listened to six episodes so far, but it has quickly become one of my favourite podcasts. Highly recommended.
At the end of August, I’ll be heading down to Seattle to check out Flatstock 18 at Bumbershoot, the annual music and arts festival. Flatstock is an art show featuring rock posters by a number of artists including Doublenaught, The Bird Machine, Art Chantry and many others. I don’t expect to be coming home empty-handed.