This short clip is by the well known designer, Michael Beirut, who is a partner and graphic designer at Pentagram. The clip is short, simple, and to the point. Enjoy!

New York City – In One Year from J. Adam Giese on Vimeo.

This film and photography was done by a friend of ours Adam Giese. Check it out!

This guys work is profoundly interesting and engaging. I have to hand it to those who can elevate the craft of Street Artwork and transform space into communicated experiences.  Take the time to watch this video!

Not a huge fan of this type of political smear web-ad. But for what it was it was well done and if Romney runs against Obama, Huntsman just did the leg work for Obama’s team.

I am not sure I get this, but Herman Cain’s latest ad for becoming president is really interesting to say the least. To explain why the guy is smoking I don’t have an answer but on Bill Maher’s Real Time one of the co-hosts this past Friday said it is because ” They just had sex.” Low Hanging Fruit…, but this I guess kicks off the crappy political ad campaign season. Happy Halloween everyone!!

Check this out Nokia made it capable of seeing the 3d world on their site. Quite cool.

http://maps.nokia.com/

I am a fan of this new site that I stumbled on today. It has a decent set of amateur fonts created by designers from Canada. Some of the fonts on there are quite nice, especially Fabrica, and Collator. Take a look for yourself!

Go to: http://practicefoundry.com/index.html

Wow. This morning, some changes happened in Washington I did not expect to see, at least not before this presidency ended. Bi-partisanship has been slim to come by in DC recently, but I am optimistic that this latest bill that passed will have a good effect.

Last month Tim Geitner slammed the “aggressive” stealing of American business technology and intellectual property last month by China. A month later, in response, America passed a a currency bill that would basically stick it to all Chinese exports.Two quotes sum up what happened in a nutshell:

“We’re seeing China continue to be very, very aggressive in a strategy they started several decades ago, which goes like this: you want to sell to our country, we want you to come produce here … if you want to come produce here, you need to transfer your technology to us,” Geithner said in September.

“We are in trade war. But today we’re fighting back,” said Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in response to passing a currency bill that he was in support of in October.

Now it’s (this drives me crazy, make sure you use the right version. Same goes for there/they’re/their etc) kind of a backwards (there is no elegant way to include ‘ass’ into a word) way of getting China to focus on the real problem: Businesses are hiding behind borders and have not been playing fair with each other; ripping off ideas and even business structures. I guess this is the only real way to slap China on the wrist for it. Even though it may not even be up for vote,  Republican House Speaker John Boehner has called it “dangerous.” I am no economist and I can’t quite grasp the entire picture of what this currency bill will do, but we know right now cheap goods for sale from China have flooded the market and removed the competition for production on US soil. The concept of Made in America has been dead for awhile. If you’re buying a screw, buy American Steel Zinc and you’ll save yourself a headache with the stuff they ship from overseas.

Opponents ie. some of the Republicans argue this is some how going to be a job killing bill, but I don’t get that. If it costs too much to ship and be tar-riffed to America, then there will be a demand vacuum that can be filled by production in our own country. Meaning more jobs here, less jobs there. Whether it is spoons, or baby cribs, or wares for Walmart’s shelves. It’s about time we start seeing some “Made in America” signs ie. American Steel Zinc screws and bolts.

Economists tell it like it is do we have the “rest of the story” or do you have something to add to this?

Sources:

http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-fury-us-senate-passes-currency-bill-031120201.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/timothy-geithner-china-very-aggressive-stealing-technology_n_977509.html