Olympics 2008 Review: The Graphics

Having been writing about the Beijing branding for well over a year, I almost feel like I have nothing left to say. I mean, you all saw it, right.

When I was watching the games I was obviously watching the sports, but I had a keen eye on the background graphics, the …

Olympics 2008 Review: Media Coverage

Now that the dust has settled at the Bird's Nest Stadium and the Olympics flame has been extinguished, I can finally collect my thoughts and comment on the global circus that was the media coverage. This year's coverage was bigger, more intense, more global, more …

The Final Week of Summer

With the unofficial end of Summer only one week away (!) I had take a moment to post and simply explain why this has been the sparsest month on this blog since I started actively blogging back in 2006. I hope I haven't turned anyone off with my lack of witty graphical …

WTF Wednesday: Branded Lip Balm

This one happened to fall into my lap via the always-insightful Randy Ludacer. Randy has a knack for digging up interesting and forgotten packaging designs, but this one totally knocked me back.

Have you ever seen branded lip balm? I'm not talking about Barbie products …

Thnk CMYK

Designing with limited colours is a unique challenge for designers. Corporate colours, production budget, and other logistical limitations often mean that we have to dig deep for ideas on how to make an eye-catching design using only a limited palette.

Sometimes we'll …

I Met The Walrus

I stumbled across this and it blew my mind.

The following is an animation to accompany a recorded [audio] interview with John Lennon, from 1969. A young Canadian sneaked into John's hotel room in Toronto and quizzed him on the subject of Peace. The results are …

WTF Wednesday: Olympic Cheerleaders

Since this is the final WTF Wednesday before the Beijing Olympics kick-off on Friday, 08.08.2008, I figure I'd post my reaction to the oddity of Chinese cheerleaders for the Olympics.

I'm saddened to learn that we Americans are exporting this silly, and some would …

The World in Bubbles

This is by far the coolest interactive info graphic I've seen in recent memory. And yes, it has to do with the Olympics.

From the New York Times comes an interactive visual display of all the medal-winning nations by year. I really don't need to explain, you should be …

The Chain Brands of New York

There are a ton of chain stores in New York. Most of them serve food. While New York, with its dynamic and on-the-go lifestyle, prefers coffee to sit-down meals, the news still doesn't sit well (no pun intended).

The top brands are outlined in a new study from The …