Inspiration

Excerpted from 3D Typography (Mark Batty Publisher)
By Jeanette Abbink and Emily CM Anderson


Sentences

Tuaw and many other sites reported that the Korean girl known as applegirl002 playing on iPhones got a pro record deal after she accumulated more than 4 million views on YouTube. See the videos below.

It just makes sense that when something is created, whether it be a work of art or a corkscrew, its success will depend to a great extent on the degree to which the creator kept the end user in mind. But how can you anticipate with any certainty just how people will react to your latest poster design, website or application, to bring things closer to home? An updated version of the bravely-named Universal Principles of Design proposes to help you do just that.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

Excerpted from Name Tagging: COST, EDEC, SURE and FAUST (Mark Batty Publisher)
By Martha Cooper


COST

Writers give you and REVS credit for being the first to make use of stickers. Is that true?

Excerpted from Information Design Workbook (Rockport)
By Kim Baer

Adapted from Drainspotting: Japanese Manhole Covers (Mark Batty Publisher)
By Remo Camerota

Check out this new barcode design and how Marlboro managed to squeeze in great branding and still stay within the EU law that doesn't allow tobacco branding for F1 race cars.

More commentary and images here.

In my opinion this is unethical and dishonest. Perfect demonstration of Phillip Morris' morality.