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YouTube - DEADLINE the making of > Video taping by Jay Tseng,
Edited by Bang-yao Liu
Point/Counterpoint > An important list of the subtle differences between the tech centers of SF and London. Important because more than half our studio has a foot in either place.
Ivory Press | C photo magazine - A New International Magazine of Photography > Foster's Wife sets up a rare book shop of artists and bookmakers.
Screensaver "Factory Safety" [Art Lebedev] > Art Lebedev create a serious yet enjoyable safety screensaver for a factory client. I enjoyed it even though I work in an office...
The Future of Wild Fish Project [Central] > What we're working on here at Central
Friday Edition Amazered > Truly inspiring. We're not sure we should leave the site looking like this. It adds a dazzle we sorely lack in our office. Now where's one of my cats...
Angry bored octopus goes wilding - [Boing Boing] > Funniest headline + article I've seen in a long time: A octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp.
The Wallet : What A Bear Market Might Teach Us [WSJ] > Two quotes: "The most important lesson that I learned, I believe, is that money is not wealth." & "Life may not always have been easy, but it certainly was good.". Personal and illuminating piece from WSJ writer Jason Zweig.
Election maps 2008 > Mark Newman (cousin) updates his cartogram election maps, insanely fast, to show this year's results.
Unboxed - Design Is More Than Packaging [NYTimes.com] > The only smart thing said or written about in this article: "It would be overreaching to say that design thinking solves everything. That?s putting it too high on a pedestal," Mr. Kembel says. "Business thinking plus design thinking ends up being far more powerful."
Another Frightening Show About the Economy [This American Life] > Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson - the two guys who reported our Giant Pool of Money episode?are back, and explaining in alarmingly simple terms why shit happened, and how it might have been prevented.
313 - A Handy Map of San Francisco Bay [Strange Maps] > This 'Handy Map of San Francisco' does not say why or whether it is absolutely necessary to paint your right thumbnail black to create the effect of San Francisco.
Making money twice - [37signals] > That's roughly $765,000 over a few years off roughly the same content. Insight and ideas about how we run our business.
World War II Codebreaking Remembered [The Encyclopedia Vulcanica] > And that most importantly, were it not for the works of invention and genius performed at Bletchley Park in contribution to defeating the Nazis, your entire way of life could be markedly different.
Big black holes [Jason kottke] > Put another way, if you had 99 duodecillion dollars, you could buy as many PlayStation 3s as you wanted. Blows your mind, right?
I finally got around to cutting the Designer’s Guide to Brand Strategy in half and making it freely available online. I think I may have made the most valuable portion of it available, which I’ll guess I’ll find out soon enough if no one purchases the Guide.
I’ve begun working on a new, equally ambitious title and I hope that a new surge in downloads and purchases keeps me motivated to complete this in record time.
This Guide was designed so that it could be easily read on-screen in a PDF viewer, with the type and page-size specifically large enough to do so. If you do print it out (either version) it definitely has a nice heft to it. As well as being educational, the Guide can be used for many additional things like raising your monitor or impressing passers-by with how big a pile of paper you have on your desk.
Download the free version from the link at the bottom of this page.