Found via MattRod’s Twitter stream, the above video from SlateV talks about their low budget ad that managed to get some insane number of viewers for a mere hundred bucks. How long can this last?

I’ve been staring at the above image for a while that is in the post THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE. I’ve never been a fan of Pokemon. I think why I keep coming back to the bold colours and shapes is that it follows the same best practices that a memorable brand rely on. At a quick glance a person knows exactly what the “thing” is. In this case a Japanese character.

I think it’s quaint that MoMA has acquired the @ symbol as they state on their site @ at MoMA, but aside from a lot of blog posts pointing to it—so what? Why now, why not when email was ubiquitous? Now that Twitter has appropriated the @ symbol as their own communication symbol did it finally grab the attention of MoMA curators? They go into detail about what they actually have which is fine, it just sort of seems like the timing is a bit of a side show.

There was a ton of things in the post How to Spark a Snowcrash, & What the Web Really Does that I could relate to, especially in terms of why I publish Design Notes. I’m pretty sure I’ve even covered some of the topics in posts. But what was helpful with Emergent by Design’s post was that it expanded on why sharing info is a good idea to why it’s a valuable way to expand what a person already has the potential to do. Post found via andjelicaaa’s twitter stream.

Getting back into a normal Link Drop Today pattern of posts I thought I’d start with some cool type design. We’ve all seen the type as object thing being done in fascinating ways but here’s a nice addition in that it doesn’t feel flat. All the x-ray fuzziness make it something stand apart. Designed by Katerina Orlikova and found via Young and Brilliant.

According to Hitwise as mentioned on the Next Web, Facebook now has become the bigger entry point in terms of the web, not Google. It is worth noting that most links coming from Facebook are from trusted recommendations while Google is search.

Keeping politics out of it, the Air Iran Logo as a mark is pretty nice. Andrew Pollak has found a couple more images of it implemented that are worth looking at.

I came across this yesterday that the Guardian has started a new section on Service Design. It is a great step forward considering most design topics in newspapers only talk about design as an object to buy.

While this commentary of Magazines on the iPad from Felix Salmon won’t be the last in the debate of the iPad and magazines, it does cover a lot of ground in the disconnect between Wired.com and the magazine. What seems kind of sad to me is that Wired the iPad does a disservice to treating the reading experience as an extension of paper, not something new. Of course I haven’t even read the magazine with an iPad so my opinion could change, but by the sounds of it, Wired’s system is purposely dividing itself in a manner that isn’t warranted. It looks like an ugly split between the paper people and tech people.

The above images visualize the seasonal colors of images on Flickr. Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg created an algorithm that plotted color from photos. Summer was at the top and moved clockwise.