There are some products that irrefutably evoke America: baseballs, Barbie dolls, Levi jeans…those little American flags they sell at gas stations. And, y’know, these products aren’t manufactured in America; but this need not make these products any less American. A distinction must be made between place of origin and symbolism. The products aforementioned project a…
Read More →Originally I was going to post something about web design. It was going to be great. I’ll probably post something like that tomorrow. But look how great this End of the World poster looks. Now THERE is a design worth celebrating. Click to enlarge It’s got everything: Minimalist design, well-focused color palette, thematics, linear readability….
Read More →There is a movement website called “Occupy Flash.” Apparently, the Flash Player plugin is part of a corporate conspiracy against, uh, something. And here I thought that companies and, well, people were using HTML websites because they weren’t (intrinsically) ugly and annoying; oh, and because they work on mobile devices. Occupy Flash does provide…
Read More →Over at Business Insider, they provide concise explanations as to why companies such as Yahoo, Skype, Twitter, and Apple have such curious names. For the literary bunch, Yahoo came from Jonathan Swift’s canonical work, Gulliver’s Travels. And Pandora comes from the name of a Greek goddess who was a little too curious for everyone else in the…
Read More →Remember New Coke? If you do, then you probably remember how mad people were about it. It was like a movie wherein Coca-Cola Classic and his wife, Diet Coke, gave birth to the Rosemary’s Baby equivalent of soda; or it was like a daytime soap opera with a murder that gets blamed on Coke, but…
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