I.D. Magazine 1954-2009
I.D. Magazine has decided to shutter after 55 years in publication.
“Well, I didn’t know it was hard.”Ivan Sutherland, when asked, “How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?”
IGN Rebrand & Redesign
Gaming & entertainment juggernaut IGN has rolled out new branding by Attik and a new internal site design for both public and corporate faces.
And of course, an introductory video chock full of cheese and internet cliches:
namebench will benchmark and report the fastest public DNS servers for your connection. google’s new public DNS was on the low end for me, surprisingly.
mini-Coke comes to NYC next week.
Custom Mike Tyson’s Punch Out! figures! (Link c/o Martin Slamon)
“This clock does not actually have a man inside but a flatscreen that plays a 24 hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.”
Design Matters
The internet streaming show, Design Matters is shooting a pilot at the School of Visual Arts, this Friday. Hosted by Debbie Millman, the inaugural interviewees will be Stefan Sagmeister and Milton Glaser! There will be two seatings and attendance is open to the public, details at Facebook.
“You can lend to one friend. One time. You can’t pick two friends, not even serially, so once you’ve loaned one book to one friend, that’s it…”Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos’s ironic comment on B&N’s Nook reader
