Two If/Then sites nominated for Seattle Weekly Best of the Web 2010 awards

Two sites we’ve designed - henryart.org and fryemuseum.org - are up for Seattle Weekly Best of the Web 2010 awards. We wish them both good luck!

Ten Type Commandments Deck

Here’s the Ten Type Commandments deck for those of you who went to the Graphic Artists Guild talk this afternoon. I hope you all enjoyed it. Download from this page.

Graphic Artists Guild Talk: The Ten Type Commandments

I’m giving a talk on March 31 for the Graphic Artist Guild of Seattle. They asked if I could give a primer on typography and I thought I’d have fun with it. Ned Harrison did a great job with the illustration. Here’s more info from the Guild website. The talk will be held at the Pryamid Alehouse at 11:30. See ya’ll there.

New Account Icons Please

Apple is a company that prides itself on design…unless you’re talking about icons for your account. Some of these have been around since OS X started, and all of them look like they were from a 90s PhotoDisc CD. Apple, please give us new icons on the next release of OS X.

If/Then Holiday Tattoos Arrive!

Happy Holidays! The FedEx delivery guy just showed up with the limited edition 2009 If/Then tattoos and made our day! Designed by our very own Mr. Rob McMurray. That’s him putting on the gun show.

Want one? Send us a SASE. While supplies last. Blah, blah, blah…

Special thanks to TattooFun.com for making it happen so quickly.

Talk at UW

This coming winter, we’ll be teaching a class at the University of Washington. To introduce us to the students, Karen Cheng invited us to give a talk to the school. It was great meeting some of the students and we look forward to teaching there in a couple of months. Above is a cool poster made by Joey Flynn. And James Davidson took some great photos of the event.

Welcome, “We Care”

Parking lot signage. Rather poor choice of quotation marks in the context of a parking sign, given how parking lots are known of their “care”. Obviously, once payment is received, caring will commence. And it will be limited by the amount of “care” time you purchase. It can end in 2, 4, 6 or 8 hours. Then there ‘s the early bird “care” rate. Somewhat cheaper than regular, but still a rip-off.

Webvisions / NW Dev. Group talk

We were invited to speak at the Northwest Developers Group / Webvisions speaker series. The subject was the future of the Internet which is a rather big topic. The upside of it is that I could have made it all up. It’s the future, after all, no-one’s been there to check and see what it’s like and come back to refute anything (Jet packs. I’m still waiting for mine…)! Take a look at the presentation when you have a moment and see what this was all about.

Unexpected Bug/Feature

Continuing with the spirit of my last post, I recently received an unexpected gift from TextMate. There was no accompanying bug or crash, and as soon as I scrolled up and down (after taking the screenshot, of course), the text rainbow disappeared.

Impressive Spam

We’re used to dealing with spam, but we’re seldom impressed by it. Today we were pleased to discover a blog-post-worthy viagra ad in our collective IF/THEN inbox. Some unknown spammer lovingly crafted the word “viagra” using colored table cells. It’s simple, uses web-safe colors, resizes nicely, and is sure to please.