"You know your logo is really good when someone who knows nothing about design says they love it and someone whose opinion you respect agrees. A great logo should be as loved by designers as it is by non-designers. You know it works when non-designers remember it and want it as a tattoo."
Margo Chase


"People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing."
Paola Antonelli


"Ugliness does not sell."
Raymond Loewy


"Work to live, don't live to work. Early in my career I didn't believe it. It took me twenty years to realize that you've got to pick your battles. I think I'm much better at my job now because I have more experience and more perspective. I'm not willing to fall on my own sword over every job--only the ones that really matter."
Margo Chase

Recently feature on Smashing Magazine, CommandShift3 uses some interesting type/csss treatments to showcase percentages. Also it is just awesome! The idea to vote and rate sites has been spread around alot but in my opinion this site has done it the best.

www.commandshift3.com

Hello! I know that finding the right tutorial for AS3 can be a pain, so here is one I use all the time. Enjoy.

www.kirupa.com

I believe in hope. Hope that someday our love for booze will overpower our fear of Excel.

From Work for Food.

I did this type work to show how I feel about couches and Rick James.

Alex Steinweiss is the inventor of the album cover. Need I say more?

If you find yourself at the Eiffel Tower anytime before 28 June, forget about an elaborate pile of steel and instead see the The Jazz Century exhibition at the Museé du quai Branly.

The face of TV on the web has changed forever with the new desktop app the HULU has created. I used it all day yesterday and love, especially for those with two monitors and love to work with the TV on the background (see Andy Warhol). This device also seem to have a build in qwerty pad for search meaning that soon we will see it on the Iphone.. flash permitting.

Link
(via techcrunch)

Vertus' Fluid Mask Site

With plenty of the tools of the other guys, Vertus' Fluid Mask for photoshop is one of the best out there. It has the standard masking plug-in tools, but also boasts features like auto-detect, and mask scripting. So whenever you need to mask hair you can refer to your script for hair, smoke etc.. They've also provided some pretty good specific tutorials for various masking scenarios.

Vertus has a 14 day Mac/Win trial or its yours for $150.

Check out this "Super Cat" hair masking "after" example from their site.

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