I’m sure most of you folks have seen the SNL skits with Tina Fey but just in case you haven’t these are just too precious not to share. Enjoy!
SNL - 10.4.2008
SNL - 9.27.2008
and last but not least, the one that started it all SNL - 9.20.2008
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Activist Van Jones is tackling two of our biggest problems—urban poverty and environmental peril—with a fresh, dynamic plan. His vision for providing America’s poor with “green jobs instead of jails” touts a Green Revolution that includes everyone.
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Through helping others. Here’s an interesting book that I found recently — “Rambam’s Ladder: The Eight Steps of Giving.”
The 8 steps of giving are as follows:
8 — Responsibility
At the top of the ladder is the gift of self-reliance. To hand someone a gift or a loan, or to enter into a partnership with him, or [...]
Is it me or is anyone else feeling like the “Obama brand” is beginning to over-saturate itself? In our brand-driven world, we are bombarded with brands that demand our attention and, often times that not, our loyalty. Our role as designers is to carefully find the balance between giving the audience just enough versus giving them too [...]
Is it true? Can design really make an impact and change history? If Obama’s campaign is a testament to design, then we’re seeing design history right before our eyes. For the first time in politics, we are seeing the power of design “brand” a politician by consistently delivering a single-minded visual strategy to deliver a [...]
Found this interesting article on 24-7 design heaven. The article is on Google Earth and how it adds the possibility of a layer of meaningful wayfinding. One of the projects featured is Museum Mapping Initiative | Crisis in Darfur. No longer are is Google Earth giving us simple driving directions or seeing where we live but [...]
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any uglier, the U.S. Treasury does it again and debuts a God awful redesign of the U.S. currency. How much money did we need to spend to put a HUGE purple five on the back of the $5 bill and call that aesthetically pleasing? And what designer actually [...]
While in Zermatt, I couldn’t help but notice how functional currency is outside of the United States, in particular, the Swiss Franc. As we see above, we immediately see that each franc is different and distinguishable from one another. This is achieved by a couple of basic design principals that seems to have alluded designers [...]
After a full day of gorging myself with turkey, stuffing, cranberries, ribs, steak, soup and whatever else was in sight, it makes me stop in between bites and wonder “what exactly are we giving thanks to?” Isn’t the keyword “giving” anyway? To those less fortunate?From now until December 31, 2007 Nicholas Negroponte’s “One Laptop Per [...]
