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Here it is. Black Friday 2011. It’s late, I know. But do you know how hard it is to find new Christmas music that wasn’t on the mix the year before? So I have made Black Friday 2011 a little different. All digital, and only 5 tracks. Some of them are new, and some of them are not traditional Christmas songs, yet they have a Christmas meaning to me. So enjoy.

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Bravo Max – You Put The Jingle In My Jangle

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Vampire Weekend – Horchata

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The Raveonettes – Come on Santa

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She & Him – Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree

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The Killers – The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball

House Industries: Interview with Ken Barber from Gestalten on Vimeo.

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This is one of the coolest videos I have seen/listened to in a very long time. It doesn’t hurt that the song is catchy.

Imagine Dragons “It’s Time” from The Occidental Saloon on Vimeo.

Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about Imagine Dragons, the song they are singing, or the people who made the video. I just really, really, really, enjoyed the video and I just wanted you to know that.

I have always been interested in the way things look. So as a designer, I have always cared about how my workspace feels and is presented. Is it knolling? Is it clean, easy to find whatever you’re working on? And most importantly, is it awesome looking?

That is why I always have pictures of other peoples workspaces on my tumblr. But I’ve decided to take it a step further. Devote a whole blog post about a studio or workspace of someone.

Today is @studiomates, a group of creative people that work out of Brooklyn. I’ve seen a lot of these types of studios come out lately. Pay rent for desk space and be surrounded by a bunch of creative people that can help you with whatever and bounce ideas off one another. Sounds amazing. Another thing I love about @studiomates is the fact that it is all white with red accents and the Apple computers everywhere. I don’t know if I could ever get any work done there because I would be so involved with how everything looks and how everyone is so creative and doing big things in the world of design.

Studiomates from Sam Rosen on Vimeo.

Oh, and if you are interested in other things about the studio, last summer they were looking for some new studio mates to move in and some of the perks to move in and for a mere $500 a month, you get:

- An approx 6ft long desk
- Did I mention the east river/manhattan view already?
- Wifi
- Water
- Access to a scanner and laser printer
- For all of you coffee addicts, we have an amazing Nespresso Coffee Maker.
- A HUGE Ideapaint wall for brainstorming
- And then, here’s one of our best assets, you get to stream music to our Geneva XL.
- On Friday’s we usually have Beer and Beetles Rockband evenings.
- Lots of geek talk over lunch

(…) It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. (..)

This video has been out for some time now, but it’s still great to watch again.

Off Book: Type from PBS Arts on Vimeo.

Cavalier Essentials is a line of vintage products designed for the rugged, yet sophisticated gentleman. Cavalier was always briefly explained as–”If Steve McQueen carried a beat-up leather duffle bag on the back of his motorcycle; what would be in it and how would the products look?” This simple idea married an appreciation for lifestyle design and vintage accessories. All of the products possess a hand-made quality while responding to the modern influences of today’s culture.

Minnesota is known for its lakes, but not for the logo that goes along with those lakes. Branding 1000 Lakes is a project by Nicole Meyer as she tries to design a new logo every day for one of the lakes of Minnesota.

Lake logos have a tendency to be, well, fairly ugly. This project was created to rethink what they could be.

One Minnesota Lake. One Logo. Every day.

Should only take a little over 27 years to hit ‘em all. Stay tuned and enjoy!

– Nicole Meyer

This will be interesting to see in a couple of years to see what the trend was now vs what the trend will be then in logo design.

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