April 2005 – Quartz City

Dear Apple…

Dear Apple,

Thank you for the following improvements in Tiger:

Reducing the time it takes to launch an app.
Making the default screenshot format PNG instead of PDF.
Changing Safari so that when it errors out on a web page it displays an actual error page instead of that silly sheet that flows out of the toolbar.

Everything else looks kinda cool, but I like these best right now

Gebrauchsgraphik

Go directly to this Flickr photoset of selections from the German graphic design mag Gebrauchsgraphik. Do it now, I’ll wait.

[via The Cartoonist]

It’s rare enough to see a one-time “car of the future”, especially when it’s just parked down the street, but I’ve been driving past this Lagonda every day for a couple months now and can’t help but smile.

The first time I saw one was at the LA car show in 1976 or so and I instantly wanted one. OK, so I was eleven years old and it looked a lot like a Hot Wheels car as designed by Derek Meddings. In practice though, the futurism wasn’t quite as reliable as people thought and it eventually just became a big car. Still awesome-looking though.

Cover art for ILMiXor Vol. 2

Still chugging along through cover art for the ILMiXor series. Here’s art for Volume 2, subtitled “Pop Top 40 From Another World.”

That cover image came from Dmitry Popov’s terrific “Drive Back In Time” photograph series. Worth checking out when you have the time.

(previous post on ILMiXor Vol. 1 art)

Mastermind Then & Now

Thirty years ago I was addicted to the game Mastermind. The game itself was great, but it was the box cover that added to the overall allure. Who’s the guy and the girl? Secret agent and boss? Crime lord and assassin? Fast forward to 2003 and the true story of the Mastermind box.