New Seattle’s Best: Best-er or Worse? – Brand New
New Seattle’s Best: Best-er or Worse? I quite like the new logo, but while it seems a departure for Seattle’s Best, it seems like more of an alignment with Starbuck’s (Best’s parent). I’m not sure that’s a wholly good thing. In other news, the agency responsible — Creature — has a hyper-flashed-out site, which keeps [...]
Diveintomark.org: Why do we have an IMG element?
From diveintomark.org this morning: And you can trace that all the way back, 17 years, through the Great Browser Wars, all the way back to February 25, 1993, when Marc Andreessen offhandedly remarked, “MIME, someday, maybe,” and then shipped his code anyway. The ones that win are the ones that ship. It’s fascinating. Go read [...]
From TED: Can Design Save the Newspaper?
This is a great video of the presentation Polish designer Jacek Utko gave at TED this February. I disagree with his premise that readers are only leaving because they don’t want to pay for yesterday’s news and advertisers are following them. I think the technological shift in publishing is far more pervasive than the disdain [...]
Meeting at 2Plural/evive, and the Curse of Flash Websites
Had a meeting at a new agency today — 2Plural/evive. I don’t know what their name is, actually. The letterhead says evive, and looks cool as a palindrome, but the website is 2plural, as is the moniker on their cards. A bit of identity crisis there, about which I’m sure there is a good story. [...]
