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You know, in normal life you don't run into burst of brilliance all that often. But on rare occasions, you find yourself staring at what can only be described as a paradigm shift.

VW did it with the new Beetle, Philips did it with the 21:9 LCD TV, Apple did it with the iMac, Dyson did it with the vacuum cleaner, and now they've done it again with their new Bladeless fan.

It's not just about doing something better than other people are, it's about doing it so much better that all competition (the general me-to guys) are left scratching their heads trying to figure out how they can catch up (again).

The lesson here is not to "invent". Sometimes the winning ticket is to simply improve what's already been done.

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I officially want one of these. Beautiful design is simple - which as I grow, I find can be incredibly complex.

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Proud Creative has a very good writeup on their identity system for the recent Syfy rebrand.

I certainly wasn't a fan of the rebrand at first, but it's grown on me. The very well thought out system that went along with the new logo has relieved a lot of my early angst.

In any case, this is what a good identity system should look like.

Great work Proud Creative!

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Dear Carrollton Police Department,

I want to thank you for setting up an HOV trap today, and employing (at least) 6 officers to police the nasty, awful criminals riding single. Now I know it doesn't seem terribly important to get the badguys during rush hour, you know, when all the people of DFW are commuting to work, but you guys see right through to the heart of the problem. Bravo!

Even though it did cause a 45 minute delay from one exit to the next to have all of your officers walking around the road - both sides - issuing tickets, it simply had to be done. No way around it - and especially since there are so many people at that time. I mean, come on! When else would you have that density of cars traveling in one direction on a road that's already too few lanes to cope!?

In conclusion, I'm very glad I don't live in Carrollton, but just drive through it. I hope you guys got some real slime today, because all I saw were people already late to work because of your trap, that although wrong, felt forced to jump in the HOV to get where they were going. So, thank you for causing what is in my memory, one of the worst delays I've experienced in the last 3 years of commuting to Addison.

Good work, and cheers!

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Interesting writeup over at Macrumors on a recent statement by Tim Cook (Apple's acting CEO).

There is an extraordinary breadth and depth and tenure among the Apple executive team, and these executives lead over 35,000 employees that I would call "all wicked smart". And that's in all areas of the company, from engineering to marketing to operations and sales and all the rest. And the values of our company are extremely well entrenched.

We believe that we're on the face of the Earth to make great products, and that's not changing. We're constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot.

And frankly, we don't settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we're wrong and the courage

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This is truly a thing of beauty. Finally, someone realized that people want (no, need) to see their films in all of their original glory... full screen.
 
Pricing TBD at this point, but I'm starting a new piggy-bank!
 
Via: Uncrate

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I recently stumbled across this neat online tool called Cymbolism (http://www.cymbolism.com/) which lets you associate (and others) words with colors.

Color is the ultimate tool a designer has at his or her disposal to communicate feeling and mood. Cymbolism is a new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.

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I have recently decided to offer up three full EP's and a single I wrote. They are all electronic music, but range from progressive house, to break-beats, to down-tempo and ambient.

Oh, and also, they're 100% free high-quality MP3s.

So, feel free to download them, but please, if you're going to use them for commercial use, email me first and get permission.

Get 'em while they're hot!

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Hello all. My company, Ariamedia, is looking for an interactive designer. You must be local to the Dallas, Ft. Worth area, but if you're our guy (or gal), hit me up at jwollman (at) ariamedia.com.

You can also read the full post here

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I'm looking for a tool that will do what this does, but I would like some opinions or other options before I "bite the bullet" so to speak. I want to use this for my agency creative work: http://conceptshare.com/

Thoughts, opinions, other options, experience, etc. all very welcome!

Thanks!

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Interestingly, in the economy we have now, it seems that the smart ones out there are trying to capture as much cheap market space as they can. A strategy that has worked well for others in the past, and buried others.

LinkedIn: $75.7 Million in Series D with Follow-on

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Instead of constantly re-designing, or re-imagining my website, content, and context, I've opted for a more streamlined continual, iteration-style update. That way, I can keep my site fresh, but don't have to (and don't want to) put a ton of up-front effort into it, and can make small changes consistently based on feedback from my visitors (including anonymous feedback via analytics).

So far so good. It seems to be working quite well.

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Anyone else using Posterous yet? It's pretty snifty - it's kind of like a blog, plus Twitter. So, anything that's too short for a blog, but not quite short enough for Twitter.

Get your name prefix before it's gone!

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