Remember when a cell phone was just a cell phone? When things like internet access, camera quality, and IM capabilities didn’t impact your final decision when buying one (since most of these features were limited or nonexistent at the time anyway)? As long as your phone made clear calls, clocked sufficient talk time, [...]
Staying on the theme of innovation…If you have a some innovative ideas in mind that you’re dying to share with the world, and you just so happen to find yourself in the vicinity of Monterey, California this weekend, make an effort to stop by the Bil Conference. Unlike many of the super exclusive tech/design/idea-sharing [...]
50 of the world’s most innovative company’s according to Fast Company. It’s a pretty diverse list made up of design firms, internet startups, sportswear giants, and electronics companies, just to name a few. Peep the top 10:
1. Google
2. Apple
3. Facebook
4. GE
5. Ideo
6. Nike
7. Nokia
8. Alibaba
9. Amazon
10. Nintendo
Not many surprises here [...]
Convinced that “systematic branding efforts” have much to do with Barack Obama’s appeal to voters, Newsweek’s Andrew Ramano called on veteran graphic designer Michael Bierut to examine some of the key branding and design elements that set Obama apart from the competition.
He’s the first candidate, actually, who’s had a coherent, top-to-bottom, 360-degree system [...]
When most producers release beat compilations over the web, they usually go to great lengths to protect their material from unauthorized use. Sometimes using air horns, voice drops, and other clever and sometimes annoying effects to make it difficult for beat thieves to record vocals. Fortunately, Algorythm isn’t like most producers. For [...]
Might we finally hear news about the delayed iPhone SDK’s and the future of 3rd party iPhone apps? It looks that way:
Apple distributed invitations Wednesday morning for “an iPhone software road map” event next week, which means we’re finally going to hear details on the plans for an iPhone software development kit.
As you might [...]
Aside from being two very unique subcultures that spawn their own internal trends and movements, Skateboarding and Go-Go share very little in common. Recently, however, Kickballers DC and Shut NYC blended the two together to create these limited edition skate decks that feature none other than “The Godfather of Go-Go” himself, Chuck Brown. [...]
Given the fact that music and MySpace go hand-in-hand these days, it should come as no surprise that the insanely popular social networking site is now looking to launch its very own online music service. As part of a joint venture that would include the record industry’s ‘big four’ (Universal Music Group, Warner Music [...]
Paul Mawhinney’s music collection is pretty ill. Insane even. So much so, that those two shots pictured above only display a fraction of his entire stash. Over the years he’s collected 300,000 cd’s, and a whopping 3 millions records (3 million, fam!), half of which he says are new and have never [...]
