The new HTML 5 logo.

I'm afraid that people will get confused between HTML5 and The Jackson 5.

Facebook in (quite astonishing) numbers, as of January 2011

- The UK has 13.5m active Facebook users, second only to the US.

- Starbucks is the 'most-liked' brand on Facebook with 6.2m fans.

- The average user becomes a fan of four pages a month.

- 1.5m local businesses have active pages on Facebook.

- 50% of active users log on to Facebook every day.

Source: Facebook

An Exhibition for Hipstamatics

'Hipstamatics' is the first European showcase of snapshots taken using the popular iPhone app that allows mobile phones to mimic antique analog cameras (it was actually awarded ‘App of the year’ by Apple in 2010).



When: 14 January– 31 January 2011. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 

Where: Orange Dot Gallery, 54 Tavistock Pl., WC1H 9RG.

Hipstamatic Facts:
- The original Hipstamatic analog camera was launched In 1982 by brothers Bruce and Winston Dorbowski.
- By the end of 1984 the group had manufactured and sold 157 units.
- The two brothers were tragically killed in a road accident that very same year, meaning that Hipstamatic never became mass produced.
- Now the Hipstamatic iPhone App has sought to recreate the magic of the original Hipstamatic analog cameras. It's got high-res output and gives anyone the ability to hand pick which film, flash and lense is best for a shot. I for one am a fan.

CopyPasteCharacter.com

How do I type the copyright symbol? Or the Apple icon? Or that little cloverleaf on the command key? For the quick answer, bookmark this webpage:

www.copypastecharacter.com

Call it the poor man's PopChar. Pull up the web page, copy the character you need, and paste it right into your document. Try it. It really works.

Source: Creative Techs

Karen Cinnamon in the Hospital Club Magazine (January 2011)

Karen Cinnamon interviewed for the latest issue of the Hospital Club magazine (Issue 25, January 2011). Click here to read the article (PDF Format).

Steve Jobs vs. Dragons' Den

Nice idea for a spoof but there are some classic Dragon's Den quotes and this could have been even funnier! Still worth a watch...

Didn't think anyone loved Apple more than me... I'm wrong

There's a lot of Apple stickers on car bumpers, but this Apple fan covered his entire vehicle in them!




Photos: Taxi Lady Joann

Apple opens doors to Mac App Store

Apple has today (6 January) launched the Mac App Store, which offers more than 1,000 paid and free apps for Mac computers, as it looks to replicate the success of its original iPhone outlet.

The new store, which has rolled out across 90 countries, is similar to the app store for the iPhone and iPad and requiries an iTunes account to make purchases.

It contains more than 1,000 apps at launch, and Apple has also created apps for popular, existing software, such as iPhoto and GarageBand.

Now Amazon is planning to launch its own app store for Android apps. Earlier this week, the online retailer rolled out its ‘Appstore Developer Portal,’ which allows developers to submit android apps ahead of the Amazon Appstore's launch.

Source: Brand Republic

Penguin Classics team up with (RED) for typographic covers

These book covers from Penguin are simply stunning - they work well as a set, yet retain their own identities and I love the way the designs creep out onto the lower banner.

It's a collaboration between Penguin and AIDS awareness fund (RED) and a team of designers to produce new covers for eight Penguin Classics. Each cover replaces the usual black band with red, employing a quote from the text of the book as the visual hit.

Wonderful work as ever from Penguin.

I shot the serif, I did not shoot the Sans Serif iPhone App launched

This game and app should come with a warning, as anyone with a healthy interest in type will be hooked in a few seconds - no clients will get work and the creative industry will be on it's knees within weeks.

Be careful, but give it a go.

Not to be played without supervision of at least one other type aware adult, preferably not the one that pays your wages.

Enjoy!

Try it on their site, or search the app store.

Beautiful branding

Love this delicious logo and branding for Womens Weekend by Alexey Novoselov. Gorgeous.

Great idea for a digital Christmas Card

A Starry Night from Torchbox on Vimeo.

Wills and Kate memorial plates

I'm no royalist but these are brilliant. Love the designs, colours, typography and illustration and ideas. They'll be available to purchase from KK Outlet from January 15th.












Source: Creative Review

App of the week: Word Lens is awesome.

Stuart Baggs: "I damn well am a brand"

Hhhmmm... I think it turns out that Stuart Baggs is neither a brand nor a fish.

Did you know that Adobe Photoshop do a free mobile App version that you can download for free from iTunes?

Who better to offer photo-processing software than the makers of Photoshop? Adobe's free Photoshop.com Mobile app offers the following basic features with a simple swipe of the finger:

Basics: Crop, Straighten, Rotate, Flip

Colour: Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Black and White, Contrast

Filters: Sketch, Soft Focus, Sharpen
Effects: Pop, Vibrant, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, Soft Black and White

Borders: Rectangle, Rounded, Oval, Soft Edge, Vignette, Rough Edge, Halftone, Film Emulsion

But that's not all. Photoshop.com users have access to 2GB worth of photos and videos that can be viewed within the app from wherever you are.

Fab free app for all creatives. More info and link to download on iTunes here.

Feel calmer instantly...

Cick here for just you and the Sistine Chapel (you'll need sound).

An amusing response to it's critics' from Comic Sans font...

I'M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE by Mike Lacher

"Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

You don't like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don't like that I'm all over your sister-in-law's blog? You don't like that I'm on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I'm pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don't all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can't all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I'm standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.

People love me. Why? Because I'm fun. I'm the life of the party. I bring levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business' website? SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.

When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I'm banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing the clarinet, I'm shredding "Reign In Blood" on my double-necked Stratocaster. While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I'm racing my tricked-out, nitrous-laden Honda Civic against Tokyo gangsters who'll kill me if I don't cross the finish line first. I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.

It doesn't even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause I'm famous. I am on every major operating system since Microsoft fucking Bob. I'm in your signs. I'm in your browsers. I'm in your instant messengers. I'm not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.

Enough of this bullshit. I'm gonna go get hammered with Papyrus."

From Timothy McSweeney

Spotted in Ted Baker stores globally

Source: The Coolhunter

A Pot Noeldle Christmas - by Pot Noodle

Bloody brilliant Xmas ad by AKQA that mocks the schmaltz of most of the seasonal ads out there, offering a more down-to-earth, and particularly UK-based Xmas experience... beautifully observed and genuinely funny.

Light-reacting RGB wallpaper

Loving Italian studio Carnovsky's wallpapers that react to different coloured lights.

Each wallpaper features overlapping illustrations, different elements of which are revealed depending on whether a blue, green or red light is shone upon them.



The designs are now on show in an exhibition at the Johanssen Gallery in Berlin. There are three overlapping patterns, different elements of which are revealed according to the colour of the light shone upon them.






Source: Creative Review

Pantone iPhone/iPad Cases

This would indeed be the best case scenario: You take your favourite gadget and dress it up in with your favourite colour. Monaco-based Case Scenario has linked up with Pantone and as a result, they are now able to make this scenario a reality.

In their Case Scenario Pantone Universe collection for Fall and Winter 2010-2011, this means specifically that you can dress your iPhone 4 and iPad in a protective case in a limited range of PANTONE® colours.

For iPhone 4, there are nine colours ranging from the deep Pantone Blue 7462 to the juicy Pantone Pink 226. For iPad, the Fall fashion colours are Pantone Black, Pantone Cool Grey, Pantone Blue 7462 and Pantone Red 711.

Source: The Coolhunter

Geek Chic

I've just discovered these genius Echo Design Touch wool gloves (£28)that have nylon tips on the index finger and thumb, allowing iJunkies to tap away without risking frostbite (or embarrassment from trying to answer calls with their nose). Genius!

The analogue Facebook

In a promotion for French telecommunications company Bouygues Télécom, DDB Paris recently devised a way to take your Facebook profile offline...

The agency realised that while people may share their most treasured memories and photographs via Facebook, the constantly changing nature of the site means that they can quickly be forgotten, or lost amongst the amount of info stored in a profile. So Bouygues Télécom created the option of turning your Facebook profile into an actual book.





Participants could pick up to ten friends to include in their book, and also pick the timeframe covered, whether it be a birthday, wedding or other significant event. As these images of Francis Peric's book show, the styling of the books were also thoroughly in keeping with Facebook's look. The application was a huge success, with the limited edition run of 1,000 books all requested within one hour.

When Facebook becomes a book from Siavosh Zabeti on Vimeo.

Credits:
Agency: DDB Paris
Exec creative director: Alexandre Hervé
Creatives: Siavosh Zabeti, Alexander Kalchev

Source: Creative Review

Latest from the newly launched Google Street View in Germany: Naked man climbing into the boot of his car.

Google Street View has been launched in Germany after a lot of skepticism and protest from the German population. And after yesterdays new of a woman apparently giving birth on a pavement, we now have the naked man climbing into the boot of his car. What is it wiz zese bonkers Germans?

NB Notice the dog lying in the driveway, either asleep or permanently with the angels.

20 profane URL’S

1. Scrap, fresh from America... 
www.americanscrapmetal.com
 
2. Cccan you spot it? 
www.anker.com
 
3. Mr Dover appears to have opted for a childish classic.
www.bendover.com
 
4. Blinds, shutters and more... 
www.blindsexpress.com
 
5. Man and machine love.
www.carsexpress.com
 
6. Who knew a country could hurt you so much?
www.choosespain.com
 
7. It seems Dicksons wised up to their mistake. The URL now redirects. 
www.dicksonweb.com
 
8. Don’t make me swear at you! 
www.effoff.com
 
9. Looking for a change? 
www.expertsexchange.com
 
10.Google. In the Cook Islands. 
www.google.co.ck
 
11. Mixing art and surgery. 
www.graphicartsexchange.com
 
12. Never heard of a toilet? 
www.ipanywhere.com
 
13. Say it as it is. 
www.itscrap.com
 
14. The best tunes around. 
www.Mp3shits.com
 
15. An island of pens! 
www.penisland.net
 
16. More childish humour. 
www.speedofart.com
 
17. When school just isn’t enough. 
www.teacherstalk.co.uk
 
18. A site of therapy. 
www.therapists.com
 
19. Web One appear to have now changed their name to iiNet... 
www.webone.com.au
 
20. Who’s managing who?  
www.whorepresents.com 

The story of a man told through Facebook's interface

Merry Kissmas

Sweet idea for this year's 50ft Christmas Tree in Covent Garden. You activate the 50,000 red and white LED lights on the tree by kissing (or holding hands) under the mistletoe. It's there from today until 2nd January in Covent Garden's West Piazza WC2.

The Queen on Facebook: one has updated one's status

The Queen continues her foray into social networking with the launch of the British Monarchy's very own Facebook page. Below is a screengrab of the latest feed, as seen by Tim Dowling

ASOS launches an independent marketplace

Loving ASOS's innovative and bold idea to feature a Fashion Marketplace allowing smaller, independent designers to sell through their website.

The company said the "ASOS Marketplace" initiative - allowing small boutiques to sell their fashion products to ASOS customers - should boost traffic to the site and drive further sales"

ASOS Marketplace launched today along with another new feature, Fashion Finder - which allows customers to search for brands the company does not ordinarily sell.

Grandmas discover Photobooth

Are you an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry user?

Screw the iPad, I'll have an iTable!

Star Wars headphones