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October 10, 2014
Los Angeles’ Old Theaters
Last Sunday, while I was in L.A. for Adobe’s MAX conference, a ten mile stretch of the city was shut down to auto traffic as part of the city’s ClicLAvia series, which runs a few times a year. It’s a chance for Angelenos to experience the city on foot or bicycle—rare for L.A.—and it feels…
October 9, 2014
Reactions to Project LayUp
I’ve been really flattered and gratified by all of the reactions to Project LayUp, the iPad app for design brainstorming that I’m working on with Adobe. We’ve been toiling away on it for so long in secret that sometimes it’s been hard to know if we were just talking in abstractions, without any real sense…
Curator
A few people have mentioned to me the obvious links between Project LayUp and Mixel. As I mentioned in my post, the former was heavily influenced by lessons from the latter. From time to time people send me links to various apps that also share some of the same DNA as Mixel. Here’s one that…
October 8, 2014
LayUp: A New App for iPad
Last year, Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance and VP at Adobe, reached out to me for a chat about Creative Cloud. The perception at that time was that a CC subscription was merely a scheme to allow Adobe to charge repeatedly for software that previously users could buy just once. That’s what he wanted to…
October 7, 2014
Street Art in Montreal
This excellent if flawed short film of Montreal, Canada’s “2014 Mural Festival” is a crash course in a genre of art that I know very little about. Its star is a New York City street artist who goes by the name of “Hanksy” and who appears on camera with a wheatpaste-style head of actor Tom…
October 6, 2014
Adobe and Mobile
I’m at Adobe Max 2014 in Los Angeles today where Adobe has made a slew of product announcements, including several new and reworked mobile apps. The company has apparently doubled-down on its cloud- and mobile-first strategy, with lots of new features and services designed to bridge workflows from phone, tablet and desktop seamlessly. TechCrunch has…
The Most Honest Awards Acceptance Speech Ever
Last week Jerry Seinfeld won a Clio Award—according to Wikipedia, “the world’s most recognizable international advertising awards” and delivered an shockingly unconventional acceptance speech about the meaninglessness of awards, advertising and achievement. It’s probably the most incisive bit I’ve ever seen from Seinfeld, and almost assuredly the most honest awards acceptance speech ever delivered. +
October 5, 2014
October 3, 2014
L.A. Next Week
Tomorrow I’ll be flying to Los Angeles to attend this year’s Adobe MAX conference, which runs through the 8th. If you’re attending please say hello—and join me late in the day on Tuesday when I’ll be taking part in the “MAX Sneak Peeks” session (hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt!). I’ll have a few minutes on stage…
Æsop’s Fables Rendered with Google Fonts
This single-page project from designer Phoebe E. shows what can be done with Google Fonts—Google’s cache of suspiciously free, largely useless but occasionally worthwhile typefaces for Web usage. It uses hand-picked tales from “Æsop’s Fables” to showcase what can be done with the gems hidden among Google’s catalog—all you need is an above-average ability to…
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