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January 28 2012
1960′s Vintage Air Canada Poster
What an incredibly delightful design from vintage Air Canada. This has almost made my weekend, it’s utterly gorgeous.
► Found on Flickr
Thing on a Spring for C64 (with music score)
Thing on a Spring, by Gremlin Graphics, is the 8th game in my retro C64 (tagged to all other C64 posts) photo collection series.
What can I say. This was just an insanely enjoyable platform game, and the Thing on a Spring was just like a party-in-your-pants in a 16 year old spotty geek way. Rob Hubbard was my hero, time and time again he would blow our collection minds by pushing the infamous SID chip to its limits.
If you don’t know the music score then please listen/watch the video below. I’ll be surprised if you don’t find it enjoyable.
I have a rather large, and complete, collection of C64 games, utilities and hardware. I will be giving life to my C64 by posting one image a day from my collection.
If you have a request then I’ll likely be able to accomodate you unless you are asking for games that came towards the end of C64′s life, so just pop a comment below. Also posting to my Instagram stream if you want to follow the collection grow on there.
Enjoy the throw back.
Kong on C64
Kong, by Anirog, is the 7th game in my retro C64 (tagged to all other C64 posts) photo collection series.
Kong was the very first game that I purchased shortly after getting the C64 as an awesome Christmas present (the very best present EVER received). I distinctly remember going over to Brighton on the train to visist the best computer shop at the time called Gamer. There was something very cool about buying games for the C64, and I remember nearly all my purchases.
Kong didn’t really push the C64 though, but given it was one of the earliest games to come out one can cut it some slack.
I have a rather large, and complete, collection of C64 games, utilities and hardware. I will be giving life to my C64 by posting one image a day from my collection.
If you have a request then I’ll likely be able to accomodate you unless you are asking for games that came towards the end of C64′s life, so just pop a comment below. Also posting to my Instagram stream if you want to follow the collection grow on there.
Enjoy the throw back.
Wrecking Ball Coffee Branding and Coffee Bean Subscription
Wasn’t sure what to file Wrecking Ball Coffee under as it’s of interest to me on two fronts, much like Ink Butter (which has to be a typography & logo design highlight for me).
On one hand we have a wonderful brand name in Wrecking Ball Coffee with a delightfully crafted logo and tasteful packaging, then on the other we have the practical aspect of supposedly gorgeous coffee beans on subscription delivered to your door.
Given the double hit it’s likely I will not be able to resist getting a subscription.
► Found on UnCrate
Rare Vintage Type Specimens at the Open Library
The Open Library provides you with an ever growing collection of digitised vintage and rare type specimen books. They are downloadable as reasonably high-resolution PDF’s.
Lot’s of classy eye candy.
► Found on DesignersBooks
January 27 2012
Vintage Themed Posters from Paul Rogers
Why do “we” never tire with this fascination/obsession with vintage design? The work that Paul Rogers turns out inspires me no end. There are many more examples of Paul’s work over on his website.
► Found on DesignWorkLife
Pantone Superhero Posters by Gidi Vigo
Pantone Superhero Posters by Gidi Vigo—which you can view more over on Artflakes—is one of those incredibly annoying ideas that one can’t quite understand how one didn’t think of it.
► Found on DesignFetish.
COLT + RANE Ultra-Minimal WordPress Theme
If you enjoy the almost ultra-minimal then this COLT + RANE themed WordPress theme may just be one to try. You can download the theme by visiting the fixed icon located on the far bottom right of their website.
► Found on COLT + RANE.
The Future Is: Dynamic Logo Designs?
An interesting article on the increasing use, and application, of the “dynamic identity” within logo and brand identity design by Hexanine.
I particularly enjoy looking at one of the logo design example’s they pulled for SECCA (also written about by FastCoDesign) by Pentagram. So
January 26 2012
Interesting photo filters using Snappr on Mr Dylan. (Taken with instagram)
A ghostly Miss Charley waiting for lights out. (Taken with instagram)
Kong, by Anirog, for the #c64 This has fond memories for me as it was the very first game I purchased. A train trip to Gamer in Brighton resulted in Kong in 1983. (Taken with instagram)
LEGO Moleskine Notebooks
The LEGO & Moleskine notebook is a deadly combination.
► LEGO Moleskine Notebooks Found on Hypebeast
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Hidden Comments
A fair few blogs of late have completey turned off comments following in the footsteps of more well-known blogs to never have had them in the first place.
I have mostly found comments to be mildly annoying. I am not the best at replying to any comments which I feel leaves me looking a little selfish, or lazy, or both which of course is probably true.
Saying that, I have always totally appreciated when someone does take the time to write a meaningful comment—even if I don’t get round to leaving a reply—but those sort of comments are few and far between. The usual style of comments are the ones that typically get you in a bad mood upon first view.
Social Commenting
I have explored a few comment services like Disqus and LiveFyre over the last few years with the latter being the one most recently used. These do simplify the comment process somewhat, but they are not without disadvantages.
The main disadvantage is that they are quite bloated in code, resources, HTTP requests and leave your website doing all sorts of extra curriclar activity.
Given my recent website responsive redesign, and a strict focus on clean and fast loading LiveFyre proved to be a real resource hog making requests on pages not using comments.
It had to go, and I reduced HTTP requests by between 5-8 or so.
WordPress Comments
During the redesign I decided to forego any 3rd party comment system and revert back to WordPress comments for simplicity and speed. The next decision was made based on keeping my website design as clean and clutter free as possible.
Comments are messy and I have always hated how they just, mostly, mess up a nice looking website.
However, I didn’t want to forego comments totally as they can be valuable and useful on occasion. An important differentiation is that I didn’t want to draw attention to the comment section: to have comments accessible but not directly viewable.
The easy solution was to hide the comment section.
This is where I am now. The comments are not directly viewable unless you click the link which then opens the comment section up. Comments no longer clutter up the page and keeps the page looking cleaner and leaner.
Job done.