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Making fun of Apple fanbois. Do we really say these things?

With a title as promising as Ghostly International: Of Art and Artifice—4 Days of Sound, Art and Inspiration, it's hard not to be intrigued by just what the Art Directors Club has in mind for this event, which will take place from September 13-16 in New York City. Apparently the Ghostly series began back in 1999, with this iteration serving up what sounds like some fresh work: "Of Art and Artifice is not a retrospective—it is a comprehensive state of the union, a peek into what's next after 13 years of creativity from Ghostly International, creating an essential selection of work from the Ghostly family into a never-before-seen collection." The clip above provides a taste, with more information available on the event site.

Creatives have been suffering at the hands of those employing them since... well, since always, it would seem. For example, imagine how Michelangelo felt when his patron, Pope Julius II, showed up to check out the Sistine Chapel. After a quick look at The Last Judgement, which took four years to paint, the Pope's only comment was, "Can you make God a little bigger?" If you can relate to that, then you'll want to request your free copy of the Trapped in Creative Hell poster. Brought to us by plugin vendor ThePowerXChange, along with Denver-based printer Lange Graphics and Spider Trainers, the 18 by 24-inch poster will be shipped to you gratis anywhere in the continental US.

If you live an active lifestyle and like to take your iPhone 4 or iPad along you will appreciate Griffin Technology's armored cases designed to withstand most drops and environmental conditions that would otherwise irreparably damage your device. Check out these crazy videos and some of the color options you can create with three piece case.

Check out David Wu's home office that looks like an Apple Store. This is what he writes on his blog:
Call me mad. Call me crazy. But I woke up one day around three months or more ago and decided to completely renovate my home study. Ideas came to me quickly and obviously all are Apple Store inspired.

TUAW reports that the GIMP team now provides an official DMG installer. To install Gimp on your Mac you no longer need X11. Just download it, open the downloaded DMG and drag "GIMP.app" into your "Applications" folder.

If you're not using FreshBooks for your creative invoicing you're probably missing out. FreshBooks provides simple web based (so called cloud) accounting with many powerful features. My favorites are the custom branding of invoices, automatic billing for clients on a long term contract, time tracking, physical mailing option for those old school clients who still need paper invoices and the online payment option for clients.

Veteran stock image and font supplier Veer recently launched a presence on Tumblr that shares images from a wide variety of sources, organized in photography, illustration and typography categories. No glitz, just good stuff, in the Veer tradition of thoughtful curation.

The Chilean biologists and philosophers Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana popularized the notion that as humans we "live in language." From this perspective we inhabit a world built of words, the superstructure of which is largely invisible to us. Far from being universal, language is intensely cultural and blindness to this is at the root of many a misunderstanding.