Free font - regular cargo
Posted on June 28, 2007
Everyone loves a freebie. Die Gestalten Verlag has put up a rather nice new free font: Regular Cargo Bold, designed by Nik Thoenen. Definitely usable.
Vintage Tamiya Decals
Posted on June 22, 2007
Nice decal sets for Tamiya RC models. In 1984 I really, really wanted a Frog, Hornet or Grasshopper. eBay time. (Early mid-life crisis coming on?)
June 22, 2007 . 02:27 PM
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Magnetosphere
Posted on June 15, 2007
A better iTunes visualizer, available for Mac & PC, from Barbarian Software.
There is magnetism, there is gravity, but on top of all of that, there is awesomeness. Watch as all the dots and ribbons go bouncy bouncy when you play music and trigger this mo-fo of a visualizer. This is the future of visuals. God help you if you smoke the reefer cause you can kiss your productivity goodbye.
Read their "about" page. They've also made a whole barrow-load of great sites, including "Subservient Chicken" for BK.
Respect.
The Visual Front
Posted on June 14, 2007
Posters from the Spanish Civil War.
June 14, 2007 . 07:55 AM | posted in Design
PC Safari
Posted on June 13, 2007
Now that I didn't expect: Apple's ported version three of its Safari browser to Windows.
It's going to be an uphill battle for market-share. I imagine that those PC users that are even aware that there are alternative browsers to IE, and are prepared to switch, are going to choose the much-hyped Firefox. Here in Germany that's apparently quite a few (about a third) - in the States about 15%.
Looking at Safari 3's feature set, I can't see any killer function: Inline search is long overdue, resizeable text areas are nice to have. I imagine it'll take more than that to get users to switch.
Later that day...
I read this over at Daring Fireball:
But the primary reason is simply money. Safari is a free download, but it’s already one of Apple’s most profitable software products.
It’s not widely publicized, but those integrated search bars in web browser toolbars are revenue generators. When you do a Google search from Safari’s toolbar, Google pays Apple a portion of the ad revenue from the resulting page. (Ever notice the “client=safari” string in the URL query?)
The same goes for Mozilla (and, I presume, just about every other mainstream browser.) According to this report by Ryan Naraine, for example, the Mozilla Foundation earned over $50 million in search engine ad revenue in 2005, mostly from Google.
My somewhat-informed understanding is that Apple is currently generating about $2 million per month from Safari’s Google integration. That’s $25 million per year. If Safari for Windows is even moderately successful, it’s easy to see how that might grow to $100 million per year or more.
Dominoes & Dice
Posted on June 12, 2007
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Ankle Injuries".
Owes a lot to The White Stripe's "Fell In Love With A Girl", but a nice piece of work anyway.
June 12, 2007 . 11:45 AM | posted in Design
ulo chair
Posted on June 11, 2007
The ulo chair is Ian Walton's degree project. It has two configurations; "lounge" and "upright". The transistion between the two is beautiful:
The rear legs are locked straight internally via 8mm PTFE coated, hardened steel shafts. In order to unlock the flexible sections in these legs the user presses down on the horizontal bar at the rear of the chair with their foot.
[via Josh Spear]
June 11, 2007 . 03:29 PM
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Däumerlings Wanderschaft
Posted on June 11, 2007
"Däumerlings Wanderschaft - an old fairytale with new woodcuts by Erika Meier-Albert". Great retro-teutonic typography.
Däumerling (aka Tom Thumb) - the eponymous hero. Not looking too happy.
Friendly neighbourhood butcher.
Chickens. Great stuff.
(found in my mother-in-law's cellar, photos by the sony ericsson)
Yacht Magazin
Posted on June 11, 2007
"Yacht - Germany's leading yacht magazine". Nice typo - seen at Lake Starnberg.
