Braun Apple Braun collectors like myself have known for a long time where some of the ideas came from that led to the perforated-aluminium-look of some Apple computers. I took a few photographs of my world receiver T1000 from 1962 (!). Radii and perforations look almost identical to the ones on a MacBook Pro or a MacPro, 45 years later. [From SpiekerBlog (en): Braun Apple]
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We Made This: 1976 Olympic logo design:
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1976 Olympic logo design
We nipped across to Radio Days (careful, the site’s got tunes) in Waterloo earlier today, which is one of our favourite shops in London, with a fantastic collection of vintage clothing, collectables and memorabilia, from the 1920s to the 1970s. (Actually, the whole of Lower Marsh Street is pretty groovy.)
Anyway, we picked up an old copy of Design Magazine from January 1975, and its feature article was all about the design of the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games logo. It makes for pretty interesting reading 32 years later, especially with all the hoo-ha about the London 2012 logo.
Apparently the logo represents a podium, a running track, and a letter M for Montreal. Podium: yep, we’re with you. Running track: um, a bit. M for Montreal: not so much, what with an M having two humps, not three.*
Since we’re feeling generous, you can read all about the logo’s development, as we’ve scanned the whole article for you. Check it out r
Update: Computer Darkroom provides comprehensive coverage of the new features.
James Duncan Davidson has a good overview of the new features in Lightroom. Mikkel Aaland also summarises what’s new. I’ve just had a play with the new sharpening option and it’s much, much better than version 1, here’s hoping the other tweaks are as good!
You can download the v1.1 updater here.
Potential new competitor to Velcro. Apparently it can hold eight times as much weight as Velcro and is practically silent. If it works well that invention’ll be worth billions. (Via Engadget.)
Mars has abandoned plans to use animal products in its chocolate, and has apologised to “upset” vegetarians. I can’t believe they were so stupid to not realise how strong the reaction would be, but I’m glad they’ve seen sense.
Public art at the Cardiff Bay barrage by Swiss artist Felice Varini.
A throughly researched article highlighting Adobe’s rip-off pricing in Europe by Nigel Moore. The Swiss and — surprise, surprise! — the UK are the worst affected, with customers paying up to twice as much as their US counterparts. (And that’s excluding sales tax.)
The O’Reilly Digital Media blog has some good tips to speed up Lightroom. For instance, rendering 1:1 (and standard) previews after import makes a huge difference, it’s well worth doing this first rather than having Lightroom compute them on the fly, as otherwise you’ll be constantly waiting for the app to catch up.
