Say “thank you,” one more time, motherfucker.
Sen. Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, according to CNN estimates, making him the first African-American in U.S. history to lead a major-party ticket.
With apologies to Sam Cooke: It’s been a long time running, but I know a change is gonna come. Yes, yes it will. Visit site »
Tom Ford’s latest campaign is decidedly NSFW, but also includes some beautifully provocative photography. Overall, I really like these images. But what the hell is up with that last one? Seriously, that’s not a good photo at all in my judgement. It’s compositionally all over the place, and the lighting is downright awful. The shadows the people are casting are painful to look at. It just feels really, really out of place in an otherwise great collection of photography. Via Rex Visit site »
Besides the afore mentioned piece from Ms. Bolton, there’s also a great piece from Mr. Boulton in the latest A List Apart. Mark talks about fostering ideas. He notes that the brilliant moment of creative inspiration is rarely a great idea in and of itself — it needs to be honed and fostered, and he presents some suggest on ways to facilitate that process. Visit site »
My good buddy Boltron has a great little piece in the latest ALA about writing a style guide for interface design. Style guides are commonly used for more overarching brand guidelines, but much less commonly address interface design for digital products — which is a shame, because they’re really very appropriate for many organizations, especially larger ones who have several different teams doing this kind of work (like, oh, I dunno…the company Jina works for). Visit site »
A simple but effective rundown of each presumptive nominee’s position on various social, economic, and military issues. Visit site »
Loved this piece, which I found via Kottke. I was only 13 years old, but I was working at a baseball card shop when Upper Deck came along and reinvented the baseball card, choosing Ken Griffey Jr. (who Topps didn’t even put in their 1989 set) to be the first card in their final annual edition. Somewhere, I’ve still got about 15 “Griffey Cards,” (as everyone called them then). I remember we sold them for anywhere from $17-22 in the store, and I remember we’d open box after box of Upper Deck packs just to find them. Good memories. I miss you, childhood innocence. Visit site »
A long, but well-written profile of Mr. Obama. Visit site »
Frightening thunderstorm and tornado clouds here in the KC area. I wish Seattleites were here just to see what a REAL rain cloud looks like.