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the design contest re:frame from my friend ‘nathalie faber’ to devise new uses for the waste material left over when advertising hoardings are thrown away is still open for entries till late april…

i was back in europe’s best music venue (paradiso), for the first time in ages, last night to see UK band of the moment the XX, who are taking branding to a new level… when designing logos there are some shapes that are simply too ‘universal’ to even consider using, but you have to hand it these people they have convincingly appropriated the X shape, as if they are the first people to ever use it… and it works

plastic people ‘karl & lisa’ from an australian daytime TV show demonstrate how not to tackle customer relations ‘ well we won’t be giving you that 20 thousand dollars’… nice (this ‘painful’ link via mister ‘de waal’)

here is another image from our masterclass with young football stars (see post yesterday) this time from petra, again i forget the guy’s name… sorry

i must have missed this one i guess: if it wasn’t posted by a reliable source i would in fact have great difficulty believing it

the FBI are not only worse at using photoshop than my 14 month old daughter, but they actually used a picture of a spanish politician… are we supposed to trust these people?

i quote: "bin laden’s safety is not threatened by this but mine, certainly is"

(thanks to ‘thijs’ for the incredible tip)