January 2012
CANADIAN INVENTIONS →
not just the land responsible for pacemakers and poutine… we’ve also given the world: wonderbra, frozen food, trivial pursuit, pablum, caulking guns, paint rollers, 5-pin bowling and sonar… just to name a few
Follow up—how does one take a year-long... →
BMD Designs the 'Coolest Wine Bar Ever' →
Creativity ‘Behind the Work’ by Shareen Pathak, Dec 29, 2011
The Joy of Quiet →
By PICO IYER
NY Times Published: December 29, 2011
ABOUT a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most...
December 2011
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Cowbird · A witness to life →
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WatchThis short animation consists of three segments that take a playful look at Christmas: a rendition of “Jingle Bells” in which paper cut-out figures dance, a dime-store rodeo of tin toys, and a story of decorating the perfect Christmas tree. This holiday film received many awards and an Oscar nomination.
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“Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it....”
– Alex Kozinski, the first Chief Judge of the Federal Claims Court, and a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1985.
'Comic Sans Project' Seeks to Save the Web's Most... →
Some fonts get no respect. This is true of Comic Sans, the ’90s-era Microsoft typeface that sought to emulate comic book text and failed miserably, by most accounts. The font’s childish, unsophisticated scrawl and overuse by armchair designers has rendered it taboo in most artistic circles, an…
WatchBMD has a Christmas Tree. In the spirit of the season we decorated it. Happy Holidays!
