Make My Logo Bigger

This is absolutely hilarious: www.MakeMyLogoBiggerCream.com

Meat Hair

Yikes! What artists will do… Meat-hair-art. Yes, the artist is German.

MSDos 5 Upgrade Video

Disregard the fold

Here is an interesting web design article about how designing websites with “the fold” in mind is antiquated.

The author is from AOL where she is the Director of User Interface Design and Information Architecture.

The key point of the article is: “stop cramming stuff above a certain pixel point. You’re not helping anyone. Open up your designs and give your users some visual breathing room. If your content is compelling enough your users will read it to the end. … The biggest lesson to be learned here is that if you use visual cues (such as cut-off images and text) and compelling content, users will scroll to see all of it.”

New domain name – www.suwala.ca

For anyone part of the Suwala clan, I have registered www.suwala.ca – which points to exactly the same place as www.suwala.com (Gillian & Jason’s photos).

Look for a newly re-designed www.suwala.com/suwala.ca very soon!

Apple’s next products

Check out this contest where people have used photoshop to design Apple Inc’s next products.

Architecture in St. Petersburg

The Russian oil company Gazprom is planning on moving its headquarters from Moscow to St. Petersburg. To show just how fantastic the company is, they have solicited world-renown architects to design “Gazprom City”.

Check out the slideshow of the designs here, or the story here.

Country Rebranding

Check out this cool flash animation about rebranding of countries!

Java acronyms

My company has decided to go down the route of purchasing an enterprise document management system from Xythos. Unfortunately this is a Java system, so I have to learn a whole lot of new terminologies. Jeff Hanson has this great quote:

“Welcome to acronym hell. Sometimes I wonder if this whole Java/J2EE thing would have failed miserably, had it not been for the availability of the A-R-chive acronym derivatives. As you breeze through literature and Web sites that discuss Java and J2EE, you will see such acronyms as RAR, WAR, JAR, EAR, and possibly even TAR. I predict that someday, Java and J2EE will enable you to jump in a CAR, drive to the BAR, get in a WAR discussing PAR, hit somebody with an OAR and then turn and run FAR. Where’s my rimshot?”

I hope that the pain of Java is worth it – Xythos has a really cool, really easy to use system. Imagine having access to your network drive anywhere in the world that you have an internet connection – and all without any security concerns! Pretty cool to me. Let’s just hope Java doesn’t ruin the day.