TripAdvisor redesigns (beta) Oct 19, 07

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TripAdvisor, the travel site that has never let me down, has cracked the lid on their new site — see it here. Overall, it’s a huge improvement — the effort and planning involved are evident in the information design and user experience. It’s much easier on the eyes thanks to the wider layout, increased whitespace, rounded corners and more. Congrats to the design team, whoever you are.

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Lovely laser cuts Oct 18, 07

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Refill7 is a very cool project from Refill Magazine (I’m not afraid to admit I’ve never heard of it.) — they’ve asked 50 artists to design their own decks by lasering through 7 layers of plywood.

There’s a ginormous gallery of the decks at Flickr that highlights the really cool and highly detailed designs with Laser cutting by Precision 20|20.

via Veer

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Puma’s Wit & Wisdom Oct 17, 07

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I finally made it to the new Puma store at my local mall to grab a fresh pair of kicks and when I got them home I was pleasantly surprised to find this clever message on the bottom of my shopping bag:

It reads:
“CAUTION: THIS IS NOT A TOY. Obviously, it’s just a bag. OK, we didn’t really think you would mistake it for a games consol. [sic] All we mean is don’t fool around and put it on your head, you’ll just look silly.”

It’s always fun to find little bits of unexpected humor in seemingly mundane places… kudos to the copywriter! Shame on the proofreader though… unless there’s an alternate spelling for “console” that I’m not aware of.

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Worst. Homepage. Evar. Aug 13, 07

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This definitely falls into the “so bad it’s good” category: Arngren

I’m sort of impressed that they managed to achieve a layout like this using absolutely positioned DIVs.

via Get Elastic

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Remote Buddy & DarwiinRemote Aug 4, 07

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Remote Buddy & DarwiinRemote — two apps that let you control your Mac with you Wiimote. WiiLi.org has a good overview of Remote Buddy or you can watch the video here.

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