Rants and Ramblings: random commentary about culture, media, politics, technology and whatnot.

links for 2007-02-10

• In Search of Serendipity | WSJ.com
  Can Online Papers Recreate a Joy of Print? You Bet — in Fact, They Already Do
  (tags: journalism onlinenews newspapers via:jeremyn)
• How do they do that? | Chicago Tribune
  What it takes to create the Bears logo and the words “Go Bears” on the sunset-red CNA Center … The images are designed on computer but the rest of the work is done manually. Every blind is changed, every light switch is clicked on or off by human hands.
  (tags: sports howto design architecture)
• Shop Spicebox: Spice Up Someone’s Life
  Beautiful Flash-based site for a company that makes nifty gift boxes.
  (tags: webdesign inspiration flash shopping gifts via:dcww)
• Caveman’s Crib
  Fun Flash tour of the Geico cavemen’s bachelor pad. Nicely done, and blessedly subtle with the ad/marketing message.
  (tags: flash webdesign advertising television interactive video via:nelsonhsu)
• The work and not work of Chris Erickson
  Flash-based portfolio site for the designer who worked on the Spicebox site.
  (tags: portfolio webdesign flash)