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The guys over at Blog Action Day really deserves an applause. By now, over 12,000 blogs have participated in the event and that’s over 12 million readers in estimated audience!

In summary, Blog Action Day is about generating awareness on a particular subject though mass participation - this year poverty.
The idea: awareness through social media.
The weapon: blog posts.
The goal: fighting poverty through enlightment. Brilliant!

Well, for me to do my own contribution, I will ask you to consider buying a Simple Living t-shirt from Nadia Plesner Foundation. My cousine Kasper at A Question Of is delivering the fairtrade t-shirts, brought in directly from a well-established factory in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Spread the word!

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Real cool post on Abduzeedo on typography flavoured with ornaments and fleurons - or “frilly bits” as it has come to be called. Check out a few previews below:

• Full post
• Tutorial on how the Abduzeedo wallpaper was done
• Nice post with resources for brushes and vectors

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I’ve recently began reading “Choke”, a novel by the guy behind Fight Club; Chuck Palahniuk. As with Fight Club, I’m completely enthralled by the straightforward provocative story line and edgy mentality towards life and how to live it. Some things are just totally absurd while others make so much sense - either way, it is awesome all the way through.

One of the chapters I’ve just finished describes a range of different internal employee codes and procedures that contains different meanings. I’m not sure what is true, if anything, and it would be great if anybody could elaborate on it with me. Nonetheless, it’s cool - and even more cool if it proves to be true!

Hotel

• Starts playing “Blue Danube Waltz” - evacuate the building

Hospital

• Paging “Nurse Flamingo” - fire in the building
• Paging “Dr. Blaze” - fire in the building
• Paging “Dr. Green” - a patient comitted suicide
• Paging “Dr. Blue” - a patient stopped breathing

Hard Rock Café

• “Elvis has left the building” - servers/waiters need to go to the kitchen to what dinner special has sold out

Broadway theater

• “Elvis has left the building“ - fire in the theater

Gorcery store

• Page “Mr. Cash” - call for an armed security guard
• Calling “Freight check to Woman’s Clothing” - somebody is shoplifting in that department
• Page “Sheila to the front” - somebody is shoplifting in the front of the store

Airport

• Paging “Mr. Amond Silvestiri” - there is a terrorist with a bomb
• Paging “Miss Terrilynn Mayfield“ - anthrax in the building

Store (in general)

• Announcing “need for quarters for checkstand five” - signaling a hot girl is at the checkstand

Any additions? I will be happy to update the list if you have any additional info or corrections.

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Now, this is cool!

Ad for a new Nintendo Wii game featured on YouTube - check it out: http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

I encourage you to see it twice to get all the details

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With visual perfection, the japanese design agency WoW has made an animated short film called “WOW” - an artistic depiction of typo design. I like it a lot, subtle and stylish. Beautiful!

Permanent link here.

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Colors can be very intruiging and attractive. If used in the extreme, contrastive colors create a very strong, visual look with alot of energy embedded. Combining a multi-colored palette with a dark black base can turn out really exciting - judge for yourself:

Focus on the above is on the colors as they are the most interesting parts. Very effectful, but somehow also rather “flashy” in a webdesign cliché sort of way - what to you think?

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I’ve had a few “moments” earlier in my life, where I seriously considered buying a Polaroid camera. Now, I’m having one of those again. I totally love everything about Polaroids: the vintage colors, the overexposed ligthing, the neat on-the-fly film print and the camera itself. Man, the more I write and speak about, the more I want one!!

There’s a number of different camera models to choose from and it’s quite of a challenge to figure out the corresponding film that fits to the cameras. The most old school, and classiest one, I’ve stumbled upon is the SX-70 - an old high-class Land Camera produced by Polaroid Corporation. There’s also a related model called the OneStep which can’t be folded, but has a more retro vibe to it.

The one I’m going for is going to be either of the two above. eBay has lot for sale and also QXL and DBA (which are two danish online trading portals) have a few. I have totally fallen in love with a pearl white OneStep with a round lense and a great retro feel to it:

Georgous isn’t it? Found one on eBay for around 10-20$ which is ridicously cheap. Come to pappa!

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I really like dark, earth-like colors as found on brown paper and cardboard. I also like stencils and monochromatic cut-outs. And, I also like Charlize Theron.

Combined, it resulted in this:

It should be seen full-size to really reveal the details in the work. Flickr doesn’t like very large images, so you can download it locally from the website here (3 MB’s). Hope you like it!

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For the last few days, I haven’t had much spare time (if any) behind a computer. Therefore I failed to meet the “one post a day” goal. Well, I figured that as long as I’ve posted one post a day in average throughout the week, it’s OK So here’s the next submission: 3 great comic strips with some rather twisted humor. 

• Bizarro

  They once were on the back of some danish free daily newspaper - not any more. Gone, but not forgotton. Great humor!

  

  

  

• xkdc

  For the geeky masses - great simplicity and i love the nerdy humor!

  

  

  

• Wulffmorgenthaler

  By far the greatest comic strip I’ve ever seen- some screwed stuff going on in their heads!

  

  

  

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Sometimes your faithful muse leaves you. Sometimes your mind is baffling in circles and your creativiy seems totally paralyzed. Sometimes, all you need is a little external input. I’ve collected a few great web design galleries for an injection of inspiration - uncover your arm and get surfing! 

• 50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs
  Smashing Magazine      

  Even though this collection is starting to get a bit old, it’s still a great comprehensive source for inspiration.

• Single-Page Portfolio Sites
  Web Designer Wall           

  Nice collection of simple, stylish portfolios.

• Keep It Simple, Stupid!
  Smashing Magazine           

  Simple is good - it can’t be emphasized too often. Here’s a few good examples.

• 20 Creative Russian Web Designs
  DESIGN Walker         

  Let the creativity bloom! (if it isn’t too cold over there in Russia)

• 2008 Design Trends
  Web Designer Wall     

  Man - can you feel the juices rushing to your fingers, urging you to start up Photoshop! Great resource.

• 40 Creative Design Layouts
  Smashing Magazine     

  As always, Smashing Magazine delivers each time. Very inspiring indeed.

Besides the above posts, there are sites that focus only on showcasing websites of high quality. That’s literally tons of inspiration available, ready to get devoured!

Here’s a few of my favourites:

• Web Creme provides a continious stream of well-designed websites
• Designer Whore has a more artistic look at web design and supply with a broad range of creative designs
• Minimal Sites emphasizes on the minimal design (hence the name) - great stuff
• Style Boost is also a great resource to keep an eye on

There’s probably a whole lot sites I’ve either forgot or don’t know about. If you have a favourite you think should be included on the list, feel free to drop a suggestion in the comments

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