Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-28

• Mon­day again? Oh no, I just sounded like Garfield! #
• Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Graph­ics Daily is out! http://t.co/2fzsIlh ? Top sto­ries today via @jobmotel_design @dontgetbored @comopho­to­shop #
• Faux Astro­naut Sui­cide Pho­tos as a protest against the end of Space Shut­tle Pro­gram | Geekosys­tem http://t.co/iTbclls #funny #sick # Read more »

Tron, with duct tape!

This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time! As a fan of Tron and ani­ma­tion I loved this, but more impor­tantly, as a fan of inter­net memes I have to say the end­ing is priceless.

The power of video should not be taken lightly by any mar­keter. If you have any doubts, check out these stats:

The “Duck Tron” video went live on Sun­day and had 20,000 views yes­ter­day around noon East­ern Time. Then Vimeo’s film-savvy audi­ence started tak­ing notice, although earned media cer­tainly helped. At 4 p.m., the brand posted a mes­sage about the video to its for­mi­da­ble Face­book audi­ence of 4.3 mil­lion and tweeted to its 1,900 Twit­ter fol­low­ers. It cur­rently stands at 288,000 Vimeo views, while approach­ing 6,000 on YouTube.” — source: ClickZ.com

I hadn’t heard of Duck Brand duct tape before, but you can be sure I’ll remem­ber it now. To quote the great philoso­pher Darth Vader, “Impres­sive, most impressive.”

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-21

• Creepy! Poke­mon ReVamp by SoupAnd­But­ter on deviantART http://t.co/hBkRr1q #par­ody #poke­mon #paint­ing #
• Beware the uncanny val­ley! 37 Impres­sive 3D Por­traits http://t.co/1MxxgoT #3D #CGI #design #char­ac­ter #
• Pho­to­shop used to help Hub­ble view the uni­verse! — Cre­at­ing a Hub­ble Galaxy in Two Min­utes http://t.co/4nQfjCY via @youtube #pho­to­shop # Read more »

Photoshop helps the Hubble!

I saw this great video on Boing Boing and I had to share. A brief video show­ing how Pho­to­Shop helps cre­ate all those great Hub­ble images of the uni­verse. It reminds me of a line from the Man­i­festo of the Con­struc­tivist Group from 1922:

PREVIOUSLY: Engi­neers relaxed with art
NOW-Artists relax with technology

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-14

• 4 Tips for Suc­cess­ful YouTube Mar­ket­ing http://t.co/LkAezEo #social­me­dia #
• 32 Web­sites With Big Back­ground Pho­tos — Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag http://t.co/QrUG0XX #design #
• Groovy man! 25 Free Vin­tage and Retro Fonts | Van­de­lay Design Blog http://t.co/NqqcJYu #fonts #typog­ra­phy #vin­tage # Read more »

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-07

• RT @FareedZa­karia: The Knights Tem­plar explained: http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/31/what-is-the-knights-templar/ #
• Seat­tle #super­son­ics audio mon­tage. Very nice http://t.co/3VLZoGL via @mynorth­west #son­ics #
• What Makes A Suc­cess­ful Face­book Ads Cam­paign? http://t.co/XyaYEXc via @luna­met­rics #social­me­dia #mar­ket­ing # Read more »

Great Read: Graphic Design Cookbook

To be fair Graphic Design Cook­book: Mix & Match Recipes for  Faster, Bet­ter Lay­outs by Leonard Koren and R. Wippo Meck­ler is more of a resource than a read actu­ally, but what a resource it is! As the title sug­gests the book is a visual cook­book for com­ing up with quick and effec­tive lay­outs for any pur­pose. Pick this book up if you have cre­ative block; using the ideas in this book can get your cre­ative juices flow­ing again!

The book is bro­ken into five parts, each sec­tion hav­ing many ideas for brain­storm­ing new, inter­est­ing and solid design solu­tions. To cre­ate an inter­est­ing new design in a hurry, think about what you you are try­ing to com­mu­ni­cate and then find inspi­ra­tions in the book’s five sections:

• Struc­tur­ing Space — basic page structure
• Ori­ent­ing on the Page — head­ers and pag­i­na­tion systems
• Text Sys­tems — text box ideas
• Order­ing Infor­ma­tion — grids
• Pic­to­r­ial Con­sid­er­a­tions — image ideas