It's certainly Tuesday

Tuesday is my least favorite day of the week. Perhaps that's why I keep posting on it.
I've created a play list on Itunes called February and it just occurred to me that there is not one song that could be classified as "upbeat."

Here are some links for your Tuesday enjoyment.

41 children and their science experiments

Using flickr to create your personal, completely random, CD sleeve design

When good design and good information mix the results are amazing.

My favorite color just got darker

An eternal mistake, although I tend to think most decorative fonts a la Curlz and the like are mistakes.

Ill-adviced business names

Illegal photographs, we've all done it.

And the imaginary Oscar goes to

The day the billboards disappeared (it's a design article but could be interesting to non designers)

What message would you give your 15-year-old self? If only. The comments are great. And the Kate isn't me, sounds like she's made more mistakes than me.

Music of the world, literally

But how does it sound you ask? l

Glamor mug shots

One of my favorite websites and one of my favorite NPR personalities combined = Kate's a happy girl

How music and stereotypes don't match up

And from the list of things I doubt I'll ever need to know.

See also: Obsolete skills for the 21st century

I was extremely happy for Once to get the Oscar on Sunday. This made me happy too.

From Veer - I chuckled so I copied and pasted "Colourlovers has an exclusive interview with Blue Iris, recently crowned Pantone’s Color of the Year. While it’s nice to hear from the color that’s been described as “anchoring and meditative with a touch of magic”, the article is really just a puff piece. "

I'm dying to see this, Beautiful Losers.

Top 10 bad things, that are actually good for you.

Lots of logos

I'll begin with the logos...
The evolution of Tech Companies' Logos

Every superbowl logo, beginning in 1966

And just in time for 2009, next years super bowl logo . I'm glad there are no drop shadows.

More sports logos

Google logo prototypes

25 best band logos. They don't have the first one that popped into my head - Weezer, but they include some strange ones.

And non logo stuff - but some are still designy

They're definitely onto something here

The strike is over, so when do our shows come back?

This is my idea of good/bad matchmaking

30 pretty darn good photographs

5 lies your mom told

And I knew there had to be an explanation to why douche bags are douche bags

Explaining graphic design to 10 year olds in Britain, because I'm sure if you asked the average 10 year old in America what a Union Jack is they wouldn't have an answer.

This is what I'd be doing if I lived in NYC

It's amazing how modern this vintage design looks, or perhaps it's that modern design looks vintage.

The smell of space

Another reason to love the PacNW

Blueprint will still live on in my heart and on my computer screen

Oops

I think I need this

Sweet, kind of

Why graphic design is the worst brand ever.

A website that could keep me busy all day

Although Valentines is over, "Oh Heart, It is confusing that you have wandered off"

Human impact on oceans worldwide

Top cities for creatives

This is frustrating. A broken link collection (it's intentional if you were wondering)

Circular communities from above

Graphic design is...

The sound of color

Party like it’s MCMXCIX

Quick, Say something nice

Those silly kids these days and an eye chart for them

The negative calendar

Looney Toons as skeletons. Seems like I'd seen this before, but it appears to be new. Awesome just the same.

Here's a follow up article from the Obama poster of last week.

I suppose Apple is not perfect 100% of the time

More from WIRED

And here is more (some of the same) photographs by Taryn Simon

Touche

Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?

The rarest items in the world

Everyone knows how much I love silhouettes, so this was no exception.

An interview payment calculator (personally I didn't know people charged for such a thing)

I love smart branding.

And rings.. I love rings too, especially when they're witty.

Seriously LOL

Jasper Johns and his use of Gray. He's probably one of my favorite artists. Some of the images in the slideshow take my breath away.

17 feet of shark

Dear future Kate, You better not live in Kentucky. And other things I can now tell my future self.

14 years of Annie Leiobovitz Vanity Fair covers