Archives for July, 2008

Comic sans turns seriousPosted on July 8, 2008

My second most hated font (after Times New Roman) is Comic Sans. It’s a stupidly goofy font and makes any use of it look ridiculous and/or cheap. I once stayed in an absolutely gorgeous 5 star resort in Thailand and everything was perfect - except all their marketing was in Comic Sans. It really disappointed [...]

Tags: Design

Iphone f**kup in AustraliaPosted on July 7, 2008

I’ve previously worked for a Telco (Hi there 3) so I know how disorganised they can be but I am still amazed and the utter disorganisation, chaos and total f**kups around the telcos and the iphone launch in Australia.
Many people have already ranted about the data pricing plans. What really gets my goat is [...]

Tags: random thoughts

The paper webPosted on

Deeplinking have a great article on original paper sketches and prototypes of popular internet applications such as Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo.

The original sketch for Flickr Places.
I find this really interesting as I’m currently working on a job where I’m wireframing using paper and I find it so difficult. The idea was it was [...]

Tags: Design

Moo do business cardsPosted on July 3, 2008

Some great news - Moo, who have previously printed gorgeous little photo cards, are now doing full sized business cards.

It’s US$21.99 for 50 business cards and they can take the photos straight from your Flickr stream, facebook or you can upload them yourself.
You have a photo on one side, and up to 11 lines [...]

Tags: Cool websites, Design

Photo gallery of see-through sea creaturesPosted on July 2, 2008

This has nothing to do with the web but it tickled me and brightened my afternoon.
National Geographic has just launched a photo gallery of translucent sea creatures complete with downloadable wallpapers.

This cowfish is my new wallpaper - not only is he really cute but I saw one in Vietnam and fell in love [...]

Tags: random thoughts

Google maps sends me to the airport or oceanPosted on July 1, 2008

I love Google Maps. I mean, I really love Google Maps, to the point where it’s constantly open on my phone and the car is full of print-outs. I don’t even have a street directory anymore.
But it really has some flaws and there are no ways of reporting it to Google, hence the blog [...]

Tags: random thoughts