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Boy we're finally moving, 40 broad, Downtown Boston, here we come!

Big kudos to Nook and Rad Sechrist for putting the posters together for me. Of course Ms. Allie Hughes for the great new company logo.

design+technology = cool stuff

John Huet is a photographer based in Boston. He's been traveling to China for the past year and was in Beijing during the spectacular 2008 Olympics. He just recently came back and decided to update his website. Me, along with couple of cool kids from Mullen Boston and in W+K Shanghai were privileged with designing some of his photos. The pictures above are some of the ones I helped out with. You can view the rest of the series at http://www.johnhuet.com

God, so after Saatchi NY's lame 15mil I "heart" NY redesign, here's another example of a big ad agency fucking up a logo. While I really appreciate the simplicity of the type and the blue can, I really do not dig the "smile" logo Arnel designed for Pepsi. Why? some might ask? I think its hard to make a round logo asymmetrical, if there's a shift in balance, there has to be a really good balance. Think AT&T, the Yin Yang, they're all essentially balanced, circle within a circle. This smile thing... well, or the smirk, or the butt crack, what ever it is, its not balanced, therefore its fugly.

Ok, this Toby Ng poster, besides that its America"N" Apparel, I know Motorola uses universe, not helvetica, Actually, Kappa doesn't use helvetica either. Although its tough, I thought graphic designers can tell the difference between universe and helvetica.

Wow, I'm not into the music, but, Wow!

Saw this cool thing walking down lower east side today

I finally watched this dvd, its brilliant. I personally don't really like the typeface, its a well designed typeface, but, as some of the designers pointed out, its over used, therefore, loses its freshness. Thank god england still reserves to Gil sans, and... I mean, if you're really into it, they also have that slightly goofier Johnston 22 for their tube stations, but I mean, see? Because its a bit goofy, its not being used in a lot of places, therefore, it retains its personality and eccentricity, thats what counts in today's world.

I loved how this dvd also talks about the roots of Helvetica, I got to finally see the inside of Linotype foundry, amongst other really really cool things, IF you're into design that is, hehe. Sagmeister has a bit in the DVD, glad I met him in Beijing.

Best take on Helvetica:" Its well balanced, a perfect harmony of push and pull, positive and negative space."

Worst take on Helvetica:" Look at it, the "O" has the same proportion as the "Y" its not designed with a personality, its an army!"

pretty clever.

I will never buy a Zune, the navigation system is not horrendous but its messier than ipod. The thing I really dig though, is their advertising. This thing on the web is really cool, the posters, short animations has little to do with the actual product, but it has to do with interpretation of certain kind of music. I prefer this form of advertising, it is making an effort to say, yeah, we get it, we love music and all the feelings it conjures up too, not because we want you to buy this music related product. In a few days, I will post what I've done for Airbus thats similar to this. ;)

From Sprout Home, pretty clever, dishwasher safe, limited microwave use, dissect while you dine. All at $10.50 a plate. Is that a dog on the green plate? Hmm.... dog...

pretty neat stuff.

Thanks to Adam, I got the link to see the title sequence of a very much anticipated film - Thank you for smoking. The title sequence is done by Shadow play Studio and you can view the title sequence here.

Adam's site would be www.adamdines.com however, for no good reason, it is banned in China, for those of you who live in this unfortunate area, you can view it through anonymouse.org go there then type in his address.