Vintage Car Logos –

Adam Polselli’s photo collection of typography on some classic cars. They don’t make them like they used to.

From the Archives: A Review of the New MacBook Pro –

If you were holding out for a possible refresh/major update to the MacBook Pros, but are now off to purchase one anyway, here’s My 4,500 word review on the still current “reigning champ”.

MobileMe and me.com

MobileMe is the new .Mac and – from what I see &ndash the only way to get over-the-air syncing of your iPhone’s contacts, calendars and bookmarks without being on Exchange.

Is it worth $8.25 a month if you only have one Mac and an iPhone? Or even just one Mac? Absolutely. You get twice the current storage (10GB bumped to 20GB), a very impressive suite of web apps, and of course, a name@me.com email address.

The Ideal .Mac Service –

Me on .Mac last August:

Right now, the only hook for .Mac is the syncer.

Kyle Baxter on .Mac –

The iDisk access concept is pretty smart, but even if the only thing we get tomorrow is over-the-air synching of our iPhones, I will still be a happy customer.

‘You Don’t Have to be a Horrible Amateur’ (PDF) –

7 Type Rules for Amateur Designers

If you want professional results…hire a professional.

But that doesn’t mean you have to be a horrible amateur. There’s no excuse for being below average, is there? Here are six more tips.

Seth’s Blog –

I inadvertently got my wife hooked on Seth Godin last week when I ordered some of his books off Amazon. She saw me reading Permission Marketing and asked who in the world would put a picture of their bald head on the cover of their book.

I told her the guy is a great writer, and has awesome ideas. They’re the kind of ideas that may never apply to you, but you’re glad you heard them, and you hope the right person does hear them, because you know it will make the world a little bit better.

One of my favorite posts (one that after I read it, I had the exact reaction described above) is this one on McDonald’s dipping sauce:

99 people out of a hundred take one or two packets of sauce. One guy takes 20. This is infuriating. You lost money on this guy. He’s a pig. He probably hordes the sauce and uses it on his eggs in the morning or whatever.

Title Case Plugin for WordPress –

This is a PHP port/WordPress adaptation of John Gruber’s title case code. Once activated, it will automatically filter post titles as they are output and put them in proper Title Case

And for the Ruby or Python (see comments) users, check out Dan’s thread.

Forget ball-bearings, it’s all title cases these days.

British Teen Suffers Painful Shark Attack in His Bedroom.

“Hey Sam, how’d you get that scar?”

(via the Wife)

Jonathan Ive :

The word design is everything and nothing. We think of design as not just the product’s appearance, it’s what the product is, how it works. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

From a phone interview with Claire Beale, post his recent D&AD Black Pencil awards.

Design Will Define You (Whether You Embrace It or Not)

Joshua Blankenship:

If design doesn’t show up on our radar until the end of a project and we see it as nothing more than the icing, we’ll probably get a pretty looking, icing-covered poop cake.

That quote doesn’t sum Joshua’s article at all, but I had no choice but to quote the poop cake sentence.

From his interview with Chris Bowler comes this awesome observation by Dan Benjamin regarding people’s ability to develop and design –

It’s possible to deeply understand code, databases, Photoshop, CSS, and even be able to write very well, but it’s the skill you practice on a daily basis, what you spend the bulk of your time doing, that you build up expertise in.

I didn’t quote the whole statement because you should read the interview.