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Turns out you can use plastic toy soldiers to make not just fonts but expensive housewares. The War Bowl by Dominic Wilcox melts what seems like a company of fighting men into a charnel but clever bit of decoration. Since the soldiers are from the Battle of Waterloo and English Civil War, you don't get quite the feeling of commentary on current events that you got from Fire in the Hole. Also, it costs about 300 bucks.
My friend Dana notices that AOL's new homepage design looks awfully familiar...
One can imagine that webpages that have the same function will tend to look similar, but this is practically a pixel for pixel duplication.
It's so blatant it makes me wonder whether AOL isn't licensing the template from Yahoo or something... But that doesn't make sense, does it?
UPDATE: Actually, it is AOL's beta design. A lot can change between beta and launch, I suppose...
(Disclosure: That's AOL as in AOL Time Warner as in Time Inc. as in the owner of Business 2.0. Also, I stole the headline of this post from Dana.)
Tripod dog T-shirts are awesome
Talented arteeste Amanda Visell says: "I'm trying to spread the word for this site. This girl Sonia started it to pay for her dog's medical treatment as well as other dogs that are diagnosed with osteosarcoma and require leg amputation. So she makes these cute shirts and other stuff. My dog actually just came back from his week long stay at the vet today, he got his front leg amputated for the same reason, so of course I'm all emotional and trying to help." Link
Sonia is an old friend of mine, and her dog Lulu is too, so I was very excited and honored when Sonia tapped me to design the official Lulu tripod logo. Check out Sonia and Lulu's blog, I Heart Tripods, and what the heck, buy something! It's for a good cause.
Something I've always loved about dogs is that they have very little capacity for self-pity. A three-legged dog acts no different from when it was four-legged, and Lulu is no exception. Even still, I think it would be fun if Sonia gave Lu the Grindhouse treatment...
Designer Oliver Munday created this typeface, Fire in the Hole, from burned and dismembered toy soldiers. (Click the link for a full-size image.) It's clever and well-crafted, but considering how thousands of young American soldiers are coming back from Iraq similarly burned and dismembered, it makes me somewhat queasy. I have no idea what Oliver's intention was with this piece-- whether it was intended as a serious statement or just to be funny-- and his site doesn't say. If it's the former, kudos to him. Type is supposed to be a tool to convey a message; It's not often that type has the message baked in.
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