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As always when it’s about japanese design, these guys from www.take-g.com make wonderful wooden toys. Take a look:

As one colleague says, you can’t beat the japanese when it comes to paper or wood crafts.

A treat for the eyes and ears. The new ad for Audi made by The Mill (never cease to watch in awe their logo).

By the way, does anyone know how to save the quicktimes from BeamTV ? :D

Knew this in text for a while now, but now I’ve found an image that pictures it as well:

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Studio8design shows some great typo and graphic design. Enjoy.

Lest I be dying of thirst will I ever buy another drink from a vending machine.

Why ? Simple (not) . A few days ago I saw a print in a small magazine showing a new product called Limo, a sort of lemonade. The ad was nice, the bottle looked ok, resembling Philipe Starck’s sleek lemon press called “Juicy Salif“, so I decided to try it. Well, first mistake. It tastes like crap. Lemon crap to be precise. When I complained of this to a friend I was told Schweppes bitter lemon is a lot better. Today, after walking for an hour in the sun, I thought I should try a Schweppes. Since I was waiting for the tube, I only saw Schweppes in Coca Cola’s vending machines. Tried a few which either were out of power or out of Schweppes, lost a tube, but in the end I managed to find one machine that took my money after pressing the right button. After 2 minutes of waiting, reviewing in my mind all possible kicks that could make the machine give back my money, PLOP! comes out a bottle: Cappy Grapefruit.

The horror… I hate grapefruit juice. This is how I convinced myself that buying for a vending machine is pretty much like russian roulette: you never know what you’re gonna get :P I will try Schweppes though, at least once :)

Gotta love Starck’s design nevertheless :)

“Programmers are like seamstresses.
They may not be good at design, but they know how to make all the parts fit together.”
– Liz Lee

This struck my eye quite well since I often see work made by programmers that use graphic applications very well, but who lack the most basic innate feeling for graphic design. Being able to juggle the ball doesn’t make you a great footballer.

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Nice to see the good old ones. Too bad nowadays Disney people seem to think that kids can take any crap they make. Why did they think Mickey’s ears shouldn’t be 2d in any angle anymore ? Wasn’t that part of it’s iconic value, part of Mickey’s brand ? Maybe they just don’t care about that, maybe it’s all for the sales… sad…

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Very well said, this guy will blow you away.

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Fredo and Pid’jin are now 2 years old :) Happy Birthday! And yeah, you bet I’m on for the contest too :P