Too cool.

The 2008 Peugeot Design Competition is down to 10 finalists. You can vote for your favorite concept car...the winner will be announced October 2 at the Paris Auto Show. The winning design will also be produced as a scale model for the Shanghai Motor Show in spring '09.

They received over 2,500 submissions from over 95 countries. (None of the 10 finalists are from the US, so lets kick it in the pants people.)

122 years of English history in 1 minute and 30 seconds

Wow. Now, that's a budget.

Everyone needs a theme song.

And this is THE VOR ACE'S!



SUCCUMB TO THE HOTNESS OF THE VOR ACE!

We got the funk.

Ok, this just made me laugh. Well done Mastercard.

Click on Robot Dance

Now this is a mission statement.

Watch the whole thing, but pay special attention about 4:30 in.
Much more worth exploring here.



THE VOR ACE CONCURS MOST VIOLENTLY WITH THE ATTITUDES EXPRESSED IN THIS CINE-COMMUNICATION.
MAY THE VOR ACE BE WITH YOU.

More yearbook photos

Elizabeth- aka DJ Tanner
Irving
Maggie

New art for the office

Wayne
Ondrea

DP

Denise
Whitney


I encourage you all to yearbook yourself.

Brilliant.

If you're up for a laugh, indulge yourself and bathe in the comic brilliance that is the Ricky Gervais podcast. Joined by his cohort Steven Merchant, and their ever-daft mate Karl Pilkington, their podcasts offer side-splitting hilarity, and a frightening peek into the inner-workings of Karl's orange-shaped head. Season 5 is now available on iTunes. Seasons 1-4 are also on iTunes for download—all bloody brilliant. A few podcasts are also available for free.

Ricky also keeps up a blog called This Side of the Truth for fans to keep up with his madness.

No soup for you!

Microsoft is dropping Jerry Seinfeld from its barely-out-of-the-gates Windows campaign. MS claims this was planned all along, but that is difficult to believe given that the first two ads, while misguided, were obviously building toward a payoff, which will either not happen entirely, or will not include Jerry.

Instead of rolling out Seinfeld, MS will now try to redefine PC to rebut Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads. I won't pile on any more but to say, being forced to rebut a competitor's ad is certainly not dealing from a position of strength.

New Errorproofing Process

Basically all that is required to ensure that design proofs aren't sent out with errors: hire someone that looks like this.

For all you font geeks...

Play the font game and see how big of a creative geek you really are. I am ranked 33 in the Hall of Fame. Have Fun!  fontgame.ilovetypography.com

Anti-Theft Lunch Bag

Via Design You Trust

More on MicroSeinfeld.

It just gets worser and worser. What we're they thinking?
Oh, yeah—they weren't.

Well, I had this post about Steve Jobs' business philosophy, blah blah blah...and now I don't even want to post it so the Whitbull post can live at the top of the blog where it can be viewed straight-away. But alas, if I don't post it now, I'll forget. So scroll down...

Now the good stuff! In an interview with Jim Goldman of CNBC, Steve lays down a great nugget toward the end:

"Manage your top line, people, talent, business strategy, products, and the bottom line will follow. I've always found that be true."

Apple's success, not only as a company, but creatively, certainly backs that up, and we should be investing 100% in the same philosphy. I think we've seen glimpses of the same philosophy at work here at WBe...but we gotta bury the needle.

WhitBull has too many Red Bulls.

P.J. asks me to ask you if all your timesheets are current and this is what happens?





Believe me, I understand.

More on MicroSeinfeld

Sums up my thoughts completely. I especially like the #8 MacAddict Side by Side photo from 1996. (reproduced here). Remind you of anything?

(And yes, Wayne, the guy on the right would look divine in a pink shirt.)

O. M. G.

I'm speechless.




Apple just won the war.

Google gets it.

Google this, Google that, Google Google Google Google Google. Thing is, they just totally get it...and that's why you can't turn a corner without seeing or hearing about them. To announce their new Chrome web browser, they requisitioned a full comic book to explain the complex inner-workings of their new browser. Too fucking cool. Microsoft would have sent out a press release.

Google Chrome

Record labels are getting it - finally.

Via Music Week:

Snow Patrol will become the first artists to deliver an interactive album application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, ahead of the release of their fifth studio album next month.

Record labels have to continue to experiment and push their product into new places if they want to survive in the digital era...it would look like they're starting to shake off the wallop they've taken so far in this transition and are finally figuring it out.

The Geek(s) Shall Inherit the Earth

Perhaps I am the only person who didnt know about Google's new browser. Maybe I should not have let that Wired subscription expire.
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The 12 formats of TV ads

Nicely summed up—and classic examples.

Regardless of your political preference

This is pretty darn funny—and produced by Campbell Mithun in Minneapolis.


One of six. All very cool.

Take a look at their website too. Sharp.

(h/t DuranDurandrea)