My little brother has been taller than me since grade school. But, he’ll never be as old as I am. Hence the celebratory AthosBot in his honor.
Cheers J
When redblackbrown readers aren’t contemplating rebuilding their houses chances are they are in the thick of a website redesign. W3C Sites is a collection of sites that conform to W3C HTML standards. What’s cool is the sizable and searchable gallery. Not only can you search by discipline but also by country, client type and even by web standard (eg. valid html 4.01 vs. valid xhtml 1.1). It is really cool to see examples from other countries that you would not normally stumble upon. Got a compliant site of your own? You can submit it.
Cindy’s city bike arrived yesterday (a Velorbis Victoria Classic of Danish design, built in Germany and shipped through Boston via The Dutch Bicycle Company) just in time to ride over and vote in Saint Paul on a spectacular fall morning. Then a stylish and casual ride to work. What a way for a designer to travel! For more cycle style inspiration check out Copenhagencyclechic.com
Thanks to everyone who came to participate in the Use Your Voice event organized by Colle+McVoy’s own Nina Orezzoli. We got a lot of attention and a few questions and if even one more person is prompted to vote it was worth it. Here are a few images of the scene at 9th and Nicollet. A few more on Flickr
If you don’t vote you are allowing yourself to be silenced – giving up your voice on matters that are important to the future of our country. Moved By Silence is staging an event at 9th and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis to remind the public how significant that form of self-censorship is. Gathering starts at 4:30pm Monday, November 3 (tonight) with a dramatic five minutes of silence happening precisely at 5:15pm. Be there tonight and be at the polls (find your polling place on Google) Tuesday morning.
The AIGA continues its tradition of organizing the creation and distribution of Get Out the Vote posters. This year a small number have been printed as a limited edition set. However, each poster in the collection, which currently stands at 313, can be downloaded as a PDF allowing you to print your own favorites. There is still time for members to contribute a design and if even I can pull it off (above) I know you can do a smashing design.
Loving these simple and charming illustrated ads for Alka Seltzer Courtesy of Brainstorm9 a blog written in one of the truly impressive array of languages I can’t read enough of to even tell you which one it is. Oh wait…I see a British flag. Looks like you can read it in British if you want ;) It’s a literal translation which is actually kind of amusing to read.