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A curated collection of 116 (and growing) important graphic design books, periodicals and ephemera.

thisisdisplay.org

More info at www.macheist.com last days!

A good read for any Professional Graphic designer.

What they don’t teach you about identity design in design schools…
… And what you can’t learn from blogs.

The Hilton on Park Lane played host to 500 of Britains top design community on tuesday night. The spectacular setting was a great choice for the prestigious awards and the dance floor was still in full swing until the wee small hours of the morning.

Publisher of Design Week Declan Gough kicked off the evening introducing our very own Streamtime MD Aaron Green. Dominic Holland then took over keeping the night flowing with awards and humorous anecdotes, poking continuous fun at the creative audience.

Streamtime have loved being involved with the Design Week awards. They continue to highlight our clients creative achievements – and we feel honored to celebrate with them. We look forward to seeing you all again in 2011.

Click here to see the 2010 Design Week award winners.

Droplr. More than a tinyurl. Free download at droplr.com

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is proud to announce the release of “Coming Together”, a font created exclusively for Font Aid IV to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. The font consists entirely of ampersands, to represent the idea of people coming together to help one another. Type designers, graphic designers, and other artists from around the world contributed artwork to the font.

Purchase / Info

Trying to figure out if you want to be a freelance Graphic Designer? or have another decision to make. Pro Con list allows you to add your own list or browse other lists. ProConList.com

If you’re in a rush and can’t be bothered to weigh up the Pros & Cons then just let Hunch decide for you. e.g. Looking for a graphic design book.

Here is a good post with a few OS X Hints & tips and more on there way. Admittedly the featured tips are rather nerdy, but it might be worth the effort if you can figure how to run a screensaver as the desktop.

Duke Press an independent publishing collective based in London who are doing some great work. Evidence on Flickr & they have a web site.

Immerse yourself in the inspiring world of some of Australia’s most innovative and cutting edge designers and craftmakers on this tour of Sydney’s burgeoning design culture. Designed to help style lovers of all ages discover Australia’s exclusive pieces from unique designers/retailers, you can expect to discover innovative furniture, ceramics, glass, jewellery and interior design on this fascinating tour. You will meet artists, curators and retailers and experience Surry Hills’ cafes and galleries in all of their glory.

The LONDON DESIGN GUIDE claims to be the first publication dedicated to the multi-faceted designscape of London.  Organised by key areas, the guide reviews the design retailers of contemporary and 20th Century furniture and products; the design galleries dedicated to collectible design; the museum institutions that educate on design history; as well as the bookshops that comprehensively cover the subject of design.

I was looking at ‘300&65 Ampersands‘ blog today & thought, I wonder when this guy gets a calendar deal. It makes for the perfect tear off desk calendar. If he doesn’t make it soon someone else rip the guy off.

During my research I came across a post with a nice collection of calendars, which you can view here. (Please excuse the advertising)

Photoshop turns 20 years old. Happy Birthday from Streamtime, one of the other applications in the designers dock.

Whilst in London for the Design Week Awards we thought we’d look at a few UK based initiatives.  The nature of the workplace is changing as the majority of office roles no longer require dedicated space in a central office 5 days a week. OfficePOD enables a company to provide a more efficient working environment with significant cost, employee, environmental and productivity benefits.  We love this idea and think project managers will enjoy Streamtiming in peace and quiet away from the crazyness of the studio.

If you haven’t discovered Pictory.com then you are just about to waste more of your employers time.

Pictures + Stories. The name says it all.

CMYK Printing process meet Craft. A hand-made printing process, based on computer generated halftone screens.

View the project

With the increase of applications such as Foursquare was it only a matter of time before someone took the public data and turned it against the user. The web site Please Rob Me might make you think before you post.

Tonhid from bold ideas in bangkok recently released a new line of notebooks that go well with food.  From blueberry pineapple yoghurt syrup to peaches sugar rose wine club soda we love them all.  They have just setup an online shopping cart so your can purchase them from here.

The gift for the graphic designer in your life. Purchase

Fast Company list of the world’s 10 Most Innovative Design Companies & the winners are

( Above: Design by Pentagram)

Not many people do it well that is ‘Architecture & Typography’ working in harmony.

Good example of it. Over here

Live in London. Take Taxis?

Get this app. (Opens iTunes)

Wired Magazine Application / Adobe – On a tablet. Watch video here.

Some of the best designers interviewed: Over here

The key is to sketch quickly, without getting caught up in the execution or technique, that way you stay in the realm of content, without getting bogged down in form.

Srsly good. Spend time with friends no matter where they are… playing scrabble.

I’m thinking production is going to drop this week, let the studio manager know.

Download the app here (opens iTunes)

This site is something you might be able to get into. Collect, Categorize and communicate all the bits of our day.

Dolores from Sexy People Blog. Just wanted to say Hai to all the Streamtime Blog readers.

Would you clip this on your iPhone? OWLE

www.whopooped.org

Nice work on the educational rebrand, for the South African airline.

The story can be read over here folks.

As you might as well heard Google has released a new service called Google Buzz. It’s like their version of Twitter.

I’m thinking how many of these things do we really need?

I’ll give it to Google they do have the audience and the technology to do it well. But within Gmail? to me it feels bloated, the maill application and interface become even more busy. It was like when they started adding social media prompts ‘Share’ ‘Follow’ within Google Reader.

What would I do?

glad you asked, I would of contained it into a separate application.

OK so lets say they contain it and then everyone starts complaining as everything has become to disbursed (even though it is controlled by one login). Maybe they need to take a look at everything and integrate it all into a nice little package called Google.com.

KISS

Collapsible shipping container – fold and open in only 30 seconds, and shrink down to a quarter of their size. Made of a composite material that weighs 25% less than traditional shipping container material, the containers (if put into use replacing steel containers) could cut down on 10,000 return trips with empty containers a year.

During a recent password audit, our I.T. discovered someone was using the following password:

MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofyAmsterdam

When they asked why such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.

Recently I had an idea on how a particular company could enhance their product. Just before submitting my feedback on their contact page I was presented with an unusual legal clause.

We are eager to receive your comments and answer your questions! However, we are not seeking, nor can we accept, unsolicited ideas or suggestions relating to the development, design, manufacture or marketing of our products. Please see our legal statement for further information.

Unsolicited Ideas
XXXXXXXX is eager to receive your comments and answer your questions about our products and our Company. However, we are not seeking, nor can we accept, unsolicited ideas, suggestions or materials relating to the development, design, manufacture or marketing of our products. By adhering to this policy, we hope to avoid subsequent misunderstandings among members of the public who submit comments or ideas relating to products or concepts developed by XXXXXXXX’s employees.

I’m not sure if it is total genius to protect a brand / product or total arrogance.

Your thoughts?

Steve Jobs thinks HTML5 could be the future. I don’t want to get into the Flash vs HTML5 debate right now… but I thought this was a very clever example of how an HTML5 application can run in a browser.

http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

This is probably the most important post we’ve made.  At Streamtime we certainly promote safe drinking.  Creative Review have a fantastic article on a revolutionary new pint glass design that contains a layer of resin inside the glass.  Any dangerous shards are kept together preventing the razor sharp edges from being exposed if broken or thrown at your face.

A place for designers to complain about Adobe to other designers.

Sounds good to me!

adobegripes.tumblr.com

WOAH These guys work fast. Full PSD GUI file for you to mess around with and design your iPad applications.

Download over here.

The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. You’ll notice there are a few new UI elements as compared to the iPhone interface. The workable screen design is formatted to 768×1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK.

If you’re having trouble waiting for the iPad to arrive, Jess Silverstone, the lead artist for Revolutionary Concepts put together a cut-out of the Apple iPad that you can print yourself.  read more on gizmodo

Show us your type, New York. A trillion well designed posters of The Big Apple.

Designer Yuji Fujimura has come up with an ergonomic workplace that allows a comfortable body posture during extended work sessions. Full Story.

You know you love him, everyone does.  Here is a short interview on the man.

Photoshop CS4 has this technology built into it. So now can your telephone.

Not 100% sure of why you’d want to, but cool none the less. www.savoysoftware.com/liquidscale/

I recently discovered this wonderful sign at the Supermarket (the least expected place). A good example of usability/way finding.

No doubt numerous of you guys reading this have tried or are using Instapaper. This post is for the kids who haven’t given it a go.

I’ve been using www.instapaper.com for the past month now and have actually found it very useful, once I got into the habit of using it. Simplistically it allows you to save a link to read later. Mostly when I’m focusing on a task and someone IMs me “hey dude you’ll love this..” I simply hit a Read Later button and it stores it away.

The fact it is all web based, means I can connect my account up to various things such as my phone and also it links within Twitter. When I’ve got a bit of time to kill I can login to instapaper and read the articles I have saved. I’ve set up 2 bookmarklets in the browser ‘+ Read Later’ (adds a page to instapaper) and another saying ‘Read Now’ (takes me to instapaper)

For nearly a century, The New York Times had been using Cheltenham in conjunction with at least five other typefaces (including Latin Extra Condensed, News Gothic, Century Bold Italic, and Bookman) for front page headlines. According to The New York Times, the variety was common for newspapers in the early 20th century because of the cost of stocking full ranges of metal type within a family.

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When you are tired of sitting on your swiss ball – write on the wall with Idea Paint a paint product which turns any paintable surface into a whiteboard.

It only took 75 years or so, but someone finally got around to doing a first-rate redesign of the classic Monopoly board. Monopoly Revolution eschews the game’s traditional square surface for a modern circular board, while retaining all the fun gameplay of the original. New features include updated “here and now” pricing, an electronic game pod that keeps track of players’ money — via electronic banking cards — and also provides sound effects and song clips that correspond with events in the game.