Robothon 2009

For those of you who are interested in type design and technology, LettError has posted videos from the conference on blip here.

Polaroid PoGo

With traditional Polaroid film slowly becoming extinct the Polaroid PoGo looks promising. The device “is a pocket-sized, inkless digital printer that produces full-color photos wirelessly from cell phones and via PictBridge from digital cameras.”

More information on PoGo can be found here.

Brooklyn We Go Hard

Beautiful typographic treatment for the new Jay-Z video by Evan Roth.

Blog posting from Evan Roth here. Source code, yes source code, here.

Freecom XXS

An elegant external drive designed by Sylvain Willenz. More information can be found at Sylvain Willenz Design Studio here. Short article on the drive at Metropolis Magazine here.

Freecom site here.

Photo from Sylvain Willenz Design Studio.

WIRED photo essays

I came across some interesting photo essays on WIRED’s site today, see below:

Classic Computer Manuals and Plans from Apple and IBM here.

A Photo Essay of Classic Instruction Manuals here.

A History of Microsoft Windows here. It is interesting how much in the early days Windows shadowed Apple’s OS and now Windows is shadowing Linux.

“I’m a PC” part 2

Microsofts’ new “I’m a PC” ads appear to have made using CS 3 on a Mac. I don’t think there is any need to say anything more.

Thanks BoingBoing.

BoingBoing link here.
Full Roughly Drafted post here.
LuisDS image on Flickr here.
Cult of Mac post here.

“I’m a PC” part 1

“Apparently there’s something worse than being despised and that is to be utterly irrelevant.” – 37Signals

The above quote is from 37Signals “I liked Microsoft better when they were assholes” post which I couldn’t agree with more. After the flop of the Seinfeld and Bill Gates ads and now the “I’m a PC” ads I am curious what Microsoft will do next and if it will alienate them more . Daring Fireball’s commentary referenced in the 37Signals post expands on the Microsoft dilemma, “There’s Nothing There“.

Future of Web Design, NYC

“The Future of Web Design brings together leading talents from the world of contemporary web design to share their knowledge and insight. An audience of over 800 professional creatives will listen to the people who have designed some of today’s most successful sites.” – AIGA

Future of Web Design
November 3-4 2008
Roseland Ballroom
NYC

Speakers include:

Rey Bango (jQuery & Mozilla)
Hillman Curtis
Ryan Singer (37signals)
Nicholas Felton (Megafone)

A full list of speakers listed here.

Media of past events here.

Video also at Vimeo and YouTube.

A mystery unlocked?

Has Gary Hustwit’s film Helvetica unlocked the mysteries of type and graphic design? Probably not, but it good to see people who aren’t graphic designers or font junkies getting interested in the craft. The NYTs discusses font design, including FontShop’s FontStruct, and how people are making type design personal.

Read the entire article here.

Offf Photos

I have been meaning to wirte something on Offf NYC but I have been getting side tracked. I came across this photoset on Flickr that hopefully will hold you over.