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Well, actually someone did release the song “Hee-ho and a Bottle of Rum”, but I haven´t found it before now. I´ve heard this song live before, but getting a free mp3 is all good! Rockettothesky played 29.03.2008 at the The Rhâââ Lovely Festival in Belgium. Together with The Silent Ballet they released the compilation “2008 Rhaaa Lovely Festival Compilation”. It has several other bands such as Magyar Posse, Rien and The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet… Download the whole album for free now

Always fun to get inspired by seeing new and inventive business cards. Hongkiat.com (great site btw!) has done a great job gathering over 100: Business Card Design: 100+ Creative Examples, Useful Tutorials and Templates

Creative Review has yet again analyzed logos for 2009 and these are the logo trends for 2009. To be honest, I find that they have so many “trends”, 13 in total, that it hardly can be seen as a “trend”. Also, some look very similar to last years trends, such as VariDot:

But its still an interresting read.

Saw the TV3 commercial the other day and really enjoyed the song, it turned out to be Lisa Mitchell with “Neopolitan dreams”.
http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=42216251,t=1,mt=video Check out her
http://www.myspace.com/lisalisamitchell

Wanted to listen to The Bucketheads “The Bomb” on Youtube, found a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2THjmRLyp8

BUT, heres a new one: the sound is disabled! Under the video it says:

NOTICE
This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled. More about copyright..

I understand that Google needs to earn money and copyright is important, and am not sure how they can do this with so much usergenerated content (and seems as they dont really know either..) But if they continue like this people will just go to other sites like Vimeo ..

Paul Chaffey comments on Paul Gillin’s book “The New Influencers“. Shortly summed up these are the 5 laws:
1. Thou shalt link.
2. Thou shalt not diss.
3. Thou shalt be transparent.
4. Thou shalt comment.
5. Thou shalt not blather.

(Chaffey’s article is worth the read, but it’s in Norwegian)

Laptopstand like iCurve (or Elevator as it is now called) are great. But you might wanna go cheaper. Like MacGuyer you can use paper and cardboard: http://www.cardboardlaptopstand.co.uk/

But why pay, when you can create it yourself!? Laptop cardboard tutorial

Or even from a clothhanger.

Need a button for your website? A breadcrumb menu? Out of inspiration? Look at http://patterntap.com/ The site gathers sreenshots from several sites and makes it fast and easy to get inspired (or copy..;) Here is an example for “Audio”.

In 2007 I designed the logo (but not the website or application) for the Norwegian startup company Kikora. The company makes software for math teaching to pupils and students. The logo I created was using the idea that the solution for good math teaching is “equal to” Kikora, hence: =kikora. The colors chosen where supposed to show that they were a serious company. I also made a color scheme that had more vivid colors too, but it was turned down. (See the whole designmanual here.) This is my design: 1.

Two years later they got it redesigned by Miksmaster. They have done wonders with the website and the application as Kikora didnt use any designer on it before. BUT, and I know I am biased here, how did this redesign make the logo better?!
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