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Comic Sans is for cartoons. Humans use something else, for the love of God!
Is there any typeface that is wrong for any/all situations?
"Comic Sans," says Grey. "Corporate types with no sense of design always use this; they think it's cool cause it's different. But It's a very bland typeface with no personality. When suits use it in slides and internal posters, horror!"
via klue.com.my
Amen. Amen, amen, amen - PREACH IT!
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Cut down on the Flash already!
I was visiting http://hotlink.com.my and it was reeeaaally slooow. And then Flash crashed.
Look how much the site depends on Flash, and how much functionality is lost when the Flash Crash happens.
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What if technology could make you feel... like buying a MacBook? @adsoftheworld
A beautiful, beautiful tvc. Absolutely evocative shots cutting in one after another.
Then the last shot reveals that they're selling a MacBook knock-off.
It's not, of course. It's a Sony Vaio. I have great respect for Vaio. (On a related note, I think the Vaio logo rationale makes it one of the most amazing logos around.) If you were to put a gun to my head and yell, "Buy a Windows machine! Buy it! Buy it now!" I'd buy a Vaio. (Contrary to what you might have heard, I won't die for Apple.)
Why then did its designers see fit to take design cues from MacBook and MacBook Pro? It doesn't do justice to Vaio, to this tvc, to humanity, to the divinity of art.
Stop the insanity. Invent something new.
On the other hand, it is crazily difficult to improve on minimalist designs. (Perhaps that's the genius of Apple design.) But it's still possible to differentiate. Remember when all computers were beige boxes? Remember what Apple did with the juicy, fruity iMacs?
("Yum.")
They look gaudy in hindsight, but they *differentiated*. They *innovated*. They *created*.
Now, non-Apple designers, please, go do the same. It's been 11 years since the iMac, after all.
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A similar rant on HP:
http://alphalim.me/pix-hp-confirms-it-i-scream-you-scream-we-all
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This is *not* what you want to see when googling to prepare for worship.
Seriously, I still do not understand why anyone thought this was a good idea. Look at that arm reaching out for you, seemingly to pull you through the screen into the mysterious world behind the lcd, the moment you touch that keyboard. The candles burn like sentinels of the doorway. See the maniacal look in the eyes. The sinister grin.
Not what they were trying to achieve, I'm sure, but there you have it.
A bland bit of clipart work made into something nightmarish by that arm. That terrifying arm.
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