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Homage to TED.com
Hello, my name is Morten, and I’m a TED.com addict. (“-Hello Morten”).
TED is definitely my favorite source for inspiration and ideas. I’ve spent countless hours watching and listening to all those facinating talks over the years. So what better place to look for inspiration for my new header?
The original: Ideas worth spreading
I’ve been testing out a few colors for my header the last few days, and one if the things I’ve tried is using a warm orange, or stronger red on the logo and when hovering over the main navigation. The TED logo must have been lingering in the back of my mind, because today I suddenly realized that what I was working on was basically a TED lookalike. So I simply decided to go all out, and create as complete a duplicate to the TED logo as I could, with my own little twist on their lovely slogan “Ideas worth spreading”. Pappmaskin.no is also all about spreading ideas (what other reason for running a website?), but it is also about making things, and making things happen.
My version – Things worth making
I have a feeling that I won’t be running this particular header for long, but I think it is a nice way to pay tribute to the most important website in the world. And please don’t tell TED about this, as I’ve probably spent at least 15 minutes in GIMP making this. If their lawyers comes after me for plagiarism all that time would have been wasted. And yes, that was a joke :)
Colors
The red TED color has the HEX #FF2B06, and the grey looks like #595959.
Fonts
Helvetica Neue LT Std Heavy Expanded and Helvetica Neue LT Std Light. The TED logo doesn’t quite match Helvetica, at least not Heavy Expanded, and I believe it is hand made, but Helvetica is what they recomment TEDx organizers to use, and it looks pretty nice as well, though not identical.
Inspired by – issue #2
A collection of a few things I have enjoyed looking at, playing with or thinking about recently. Also check out the previous issue for more inspiration.
#1. My little Darth Vader!
The result is part toy, part activism, part art, and 100% fun, when artist Mari Kasurinen creates her own versions of My Little PonyMari has made over 20 unique designs, several taken from Star Wars, but you will also find Edward Scissorhands, Superman, and Chutulu in her collection. Genious! And of course: My Little Catwoman!
Inspired by – issue # 1
19 inspirational images and videos to tickly your brain like they did mine.
More after the break
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Serenity and a sense of fullfillment
A POEM BY Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004)
A day so happy.
Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw blue sea and sails.
A huge thank you to Bruce Sterling for ending his SXSW rant with this wonderful poem and actually replying to my email when I tried to figure out who wrote it.
NOODS AND DOOD!
Rachael & Ruby – With Dead Animals, originally uploaded by merkley???.
Merkley??? is worth checking out, I actually had a hard time deciding which photo to blog, there are so many great ones, but I ended up with this one. Check it out.
Motion, time and stories
Notes from a talk by Jakob Trollbäck – Trollbäck+Company at
http://www.trollback.com/
About emotional response
1. If design doesn’t move you or give a better understanding of things, then what’s the point?
How does people react to your messages. Do we inspire people?
Inspire using people, photography, music, audio, form, architecture, movies.
2. As soon as something is moving, there has to be a story.
About kinetic and static energy
3. Movement/animation: If it is important it must have weight and gravity.
4. Break isolation by bringing in the world
5. Create wonderful experiences people can be part of.
6. Trends are annoying
7. God bless the programmers
Study:
Composition
Movement
Color
Rules (and then break them)
