Great look into the thought and concepts behind the Barack Obama ‘08 Presidential Campaign.

I must say on a personal note, that the new direction of their marketing really helped pushed the core concepts of Obama’s campaign of “change.” His website was unlike any other, their use of Social Media really enforced their grass roots, bottom-up, approach that ultimately led to victory.

Oh that Gotham font, how I love thee. Which reminds me, I really need to watch that Helvetica documentary that’s been in my Netflix queue for months now.

For more cool Barack Obama artwork, I highly reccomend checking out:

Design for Obama - Gallery of artwork with options to print on your own copies
Zazzle - Has some great pieces to purchase prints of

Didn’t you?

It’s a 1968 Bertone Carabo Concept car with a Alfa Romeo V8, apparently Jay Leno owns it, apparently there was only one made and it’s on display in Arese, Italy at Alfa Romeo’s museum. Apparently this car was the inspiration for the famous 1971 Lamborghini Countach (one of my all-time personal favorites) according to jaylenosgarage.com. Another wedge shaped supercar.

I’m absolutely fascinated by these long hard angular body lines. Not to mention these particular photos have a really neat vibe to them. The washed out grainy film and a model who’s jumpsuit screams 1960s, combined with this unbelievably futuristic and advanced design. Well, I guess Lamborghini has continued that trend, maybe that’s why they’re so damn expensive and why most of us haven’t gotten ours

My proofs were emailed to me this morning for my approval. I’m getting these puppies printed on 14pt glossy stock- double sided. I am using uprinting.com for the first time. Paying a few extra bucks for a faster turnaround time and shipping because I need these in hand soon. So far uprinting is pretty good. I had an issue with their file uploader with my pdfs. For some reason the wood grain dropped out of the preview thumbnail so I just uploaded TIFFs instead. Seemed to work ok.

Can’t wait to see them all printed up.

As part of Google’s mission to organize all information on everything and everything that ever happened in the world to make it accessible t anyone and continuing goal of expanding their image searches, they have partnerted with Life Magazine hosting over two million photos with plans to add all 10 million Life Magazine has in their archive. Life has said that over 95% have never been seen by the public or ever published.

The images owned by Life date back to the 1750s. Wow.

Each photo has the photographer listed, location, date, and description. Also looks like you can order prints of all the images as well. Very cool.

The photos aren’t the highest of resolutions but they’re definitely feasible for any type of screen use. Great to draw inspiration from as Life Magazine has captured incredible moments throughout the world. Truly incredible stuff.

Above is a few images I really liked after browsing for a few minutes. Who knows what some more time could turn up.

Here’s the every important link to check it out: http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Wow. I am really excited to get my hands on this piece of software revealed today at the Adobe MAX Conference in San Fransisco this week (and jealous of my co-workers who got to go!).

Basically what it does is streamline workflow for Rich Internet Applications and interactive apps from design to development. The designer can mock-up an beautiful looking interface and begin to simple markup defining what each element’s functionality does. Functionally seems to be based on layers from Photoshop or Illustrator. One button gets it’s own layer. Bring it into Catalyst, select that layer and define it as a button - even modify it’s mouse over and out states much like the old Image Ready, except seemingly much simpler.

From there it can be imported into Flex to be developed into a full fledged app for distribution online or as an AIR app. The developer adds in all the business logic and advanced functionality.

Oh yeah, all the while you can go in and make change say in a button color and it’ll update across the board without distributing code. Doesn’t seem like things need to be re-imported as well. Awesome!

However, I don’t honestly see designers making too much use out of this - at least not in a larger shop where a designer and developers roles are well defined. Much like a designer handing a PSD over to a developer without and slices. If anything it’ll help developers quickly build their applications based on (hopefully) well organized designs as well as rapidly prototyping projects for client presentations or iterative “Agile-methodology” development. Here’s to hoping the generated code throughout all this is clean and well structured.

Check out the official site from Adobe: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/

Oh yeah, could they be any more stereotypical with their “designer” and “developer” actors? Could he be any more hunched over and can she be and calmer and collected sipping her coffee in her lovely well lit space?

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