white space
More gorgeous work from White Space.
the most beautiful bottle in the world
PURUS is 100% organic vodka made from Italian wheat and water from the Alps. Designed by Jean Scholtes, Creative Director of white_space.
frank chimero
typography
On Monday I ran across this book on Amazon aptly titled Type Addicted. In the past six to eight months, I've had a renewed vigor for type (I was hopelessly addicted after my first typography class at Kansas State University in 2003). And now, once again I can't get enough of it. My new book arrives today compliments of free 2 day shipping via my trial version of Amazon Prime.
One of the blogs I check on a daily basis has had somewhat of an ongoing discussion about newspaper design. Pentagram recently redesigned the layout for the Khaleej Times and the author commented that he doesn't get very excited about newspaper design. For the most part, I have to agree on that point. Newspapers in the United States can be especially hideous. The Virginian Pilot however, proves that sentence wrong (although I can't say the same for their website).
it's hot.
I've arrived at the pinicle of complete designer geek.
This morning I ordered a 2GB flash drive off the Pantone website in 497C. I salivate just looking at it on screen. Can't imagine what I'm going to do when I see it in person.
google is a typo
I read this article this morning over at TypoBuddy:
A Student at Stanford University, Sean Anderson accidentally helped Larry Page come up with the name and spelling of Google. While Page and Anderson were in Page’s office, the two were attempting to come up for a name for the would-be search behemoth. Sean had suggested verbally the word “googolplex”, spurning Page to shorten it to “googol”. Anderson then went to check the availability of the word, accidentally spelling it “Google” in an internet domain name registry. Available it was, and the company has decided to go with this spelling ever since. Whether or not the company has succeeded because of the name is subject to some speculation, it is very interesting to see what has become of a basic spelling error. It also goes to show that not all typos result in lives being ruined and/or financial turmoil, way to go Sean Anderson (although he now works for Microsoft).