Miniature Photographer Lori Nix

- photo used with permission -

I found this photographer on Cool Hunting. Her photography is very interesting and has that certain something that makes you want to keep looking at it. For me it’s the same feeling that I get from looking at very interesting historical objects.

Check it out I think you’ll like it and may be inspired by it, I was.
Make sure you watch the video.

Lori Nix’s website
http://www.lorinix.net/

Video about Lori Nix on Cool Hunting
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/07/lori_nix.php

I hope my title is how you would like to be described Lori?

Design Tools Weekly Podcast

Design Tools WEEKLY is a free weekly design news podcast.
They also publish a monthly paid subscription newsletter, Design Tools Monthly, which contains all the design news that you would have to dig everywhere to find. You can download a free sample issue and I think you will find that it contains a lot of good information.

Coroflot – 2007 Design Salary Survey

Here’s a 2007 Design Salary Survey from Coroflot.com

Comment below if you have something of interest to add on this subject.

Amazon Kindle Electronic Book Looks Good

Amazon’s new e-book reader Kindle looks very interesting to me. It uses an electronic-paper display that looks and reads like real paper. The electroinc ink technology looks like real paper not a computer screen. It is not backlit. You never need to sync it to a computer or use cables of any sort except for recharging. It uses SD memory cards and better than that you can download books, newspapers, magazines, blogs and probably more wirelessly and there is no need to find a WiFi hotspot because it uses Amazon’s EVDO Amazon Whispernet which is built on Sprints EVDO network. There are no monthly wireless access fees because Amazon covers that, you only pay for the device and the content you buy.

Kindle weighs 10.3 ounces, the same or a little less than a paper back book. It is currently selling for $399.Basically you can read any book you want if it’s in their download library which now stocks more than 80,000 titles and more will be added daily. Wherever you are you just look for what you want to read and purchase it. The library includes 101 of the current 112 New York Times Best Sellers which are $9.99 unless marked otherwise. The device can hold about 200 books. All of your purchases are backed up for you online by Amazon in case you should need to download them again in the future.

I would have liked to have something like this when I was in school for text books rather than lugging a bag full of books all over campus. The only drawback is that it is currently black and white but E Ink who make the screen technology has a prototype for a color display. I would think they would look into this market if it would be friendly towards this technology but with the money the used textbook stores make on reselling there might be resistance?

Looks interesting. Maybe this e-book will take off?

Trust Your Graphic Designer

Pay attention now! 

New iTunes WiFi Music Store for iPhone and iPod Touch

Steve Jobs announces that there’s a new WiFi iTunes store for the iPhone and the new iPod Touch.

The iPod Touch looks almost just like an iPhone and has Multitouch interface, iPod, Calendar, Contacts, Calculator, Settings, WiFi, Youtube and Safari Web Browser! You can surf the web, buy songs on iTunes WiFi Store and watch Youtube videos!

The iTunes WiFi Music Store will be available later this month and to the iPhone through a free iPhone update.

Also announced is a partnership with Starbucks. When you get near a Starbucks a fifth button will appear in the WiFi music store which will tell you what song is playing at that time in the Starbucks and you can buy the music with the tap of a finger.

Also there will be free access to iTunes WiFi Music Store while at Starbucks with no login required. It will take until the end of 2008 for most major metro Starbucks to have this implemented.

Ringtones for iPhone

Steve Jobs has announced at Apples “The Beat Goes On” event which is taking place today there will be a custom ringtones builder for the iPhone in the new version of iTunes, which should be available tonight I believe, ringtone service will be turned on next week. When an iPhone is docked a Ringtones tab will pop up. It will cost 99¢ to make a ringtone from one of 500,000 songs on iTunes, there are more than 6 million songs on iTunes but only 500,000 are participating with the ringtone feature. You can pick up to 30 seconds of a song and make fade ins, fade outs and create the ringtone before you buy the ringtone.

Typography School Video

This is a cool video with points of view from veteran designers/typographers and students about the use of computers and the possibly declining use of traditional design/typography methods for both concept development and design implementation.

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20/20 Does Graphic Design

Turner Classic Movies

I love TCM. I love their graphic design and I love old movies. They (or those they hire) just do everything right.

Here are some links to some TCM artwork and info.

• TCM Flash Banners
• Elvis: That’s the Way It Is – site done for TCM by The Chopping Block
• TCM’s old site done by The Chopping Block
• AIGA Turner Classic Movies Director of the Month
• from article in Communication Arts Interactive Annual 9: Turner Classic Movies
• Info about TCM’s online movie database

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