Most common web-banner formats in Norway (mest vanlig banner formater i Norge)

After some research, I (believe) I have found the most common webbanner formats in Norway.

Both the ad agency McCann Norge and webproduction company Jucicy agree that these are the 3 most common sizes: - Board: 468x400

- Topbanner: 768x150

- Skyscraper: 180x500 (can have different heights)

Microsoft Advertising Norge say they use mainly

- 300x250

- 234x60

But, they also have: 728x90, 160x600 and 180x150

This is the overview from VG banner formater
Format Pixler (bredde x høyde) Maks kB
Toppboard 768 piksler 150 piksler 50 kB
Nettboard 468 piksler 400 piksler 60 kB
Nettboard3 468 piksler 600 piksler 60 kB
Sideboard 180 piksler 500 piksler 40 kB
Sideboard 180 piksler 650 piksler 45 kB
Smalmidt 468 piksler 100 piksler 30 kB
Midiboard 360 piksler 308 piksler 30 kB
Smartboard 360 piksler 100 piksler 25 kB
Knapp 180 piksler 120 piksler 20 kB
Frimerke 180 piksler 150 piksler 25 kB

Any thougths on this?

(Bannersize image taken from Bannercreator)

Logo trends 2009

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.

Paul Chaffey: 5 laws for social media

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)

Facebook is all open, or maybe you want some privacy?

10 easy tips on how to get some privacy once on Facebook. Could come in handy if you are as paranoid as I am. No, wait! Cant be that bad. After all, I have a blog. Two blogs. Two websites. Twitter, eh... + + Ok. So much for privacy paranoia..

Create a Retro Photo and Background

A great Photoshop tutorial I got via Rune Grothaug

http://www.denisdesigns.com/
It shows how to create a old looking photo. Goody

Fonts, fonts, Type.

Looking for new fonts? Go to http://typeneu.com/

Quite unusual website layout too. But kind of works

My very first (own) Wikipedia entry: Hyperstate!

Really bizzarre, but of some reason NO ONE has written about Norways biggest rave party Hyperstate on Wikipedia. So as the big philanthropist I am, ta ta!

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperstate

Please help the article become better, and feel good about yourself too :)

Create peeling sticker effect in Photoshop - tutorial

Sometimes you want to create fake stickers on your Photoshop artwork. And here is a great tutorial how to do that:
http://9tutorials.com/2007/07/23/peeling-sticker-effect.html

Best and worst of Olympic design

Swedish mag Cap&Design had an article about the different designs of the Olympics:

http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.185259/kolla-in-den-basta-och-samsta-os-grafiken

Personally I prefer the Mexico from 1988. Pretty funky

And when it comes to the logo for London 2012, I find it looks like the Jewish museum Berlin which was designed by Liebeskind. Great museum and building. But as a logo...!?

Read magazines online for free

"Read the world. Publish the world." Thats what http://issuu.com/ claims anyways. See for yourself what you think!

Random Spam blurb!

Got this spam today. Thought it was some great writing, so enjoy the "poem"!

"The imagination! Shut your eyes, if you miss amory signor benton, then you would implicate yourself, they had acute pains, they scarified the part gawaine, it beseemeth evil a good knight to despise .,'. I , i. C of i i i j i i she had put her counters very kind of you. You speak of danger. you have creature, half seal, half fish, to look at, with almost as easily recognized, and as limited in the left barrel. He turned round once, and then water. They were all good swimmers. When the river then in an immense basin with leaden waters as willing to accompany me, pedro? I asked in spanish. Well, if my work had been given to the public this happened repeatedly, amasis said to his wife, writes wonderful for a woman. Seth had drawn the."

Nuff said.

Pessimistic youth (MTV wellbeing study 2007)

Rather depressing reading about the "well-being" of today's youth from MTV research amongst 6000 youths. In Norway one third is not happy about their life's.. Their lonely and pessimistic the study says.

According to Madeleine Thor from MTV Networks, comments that the youth feel a pressure to get a job that can give "self-realisation". "A work that doenst give self-realisation is not interresting for the youth. It might seem that adults say that todays youth are lazy, but in fact it is because they arent interested in jobs that give self-realisation."

Ah, and the most "happy and optimistic" youths are found in Argentine. Norway is at the 11. place. Japan is rock-bottom.

Unge nordmenn føler seg ensomme
http://www.dagsavisen.no/innenriks/article321574.ece

Lykketoppen
http://www.dagsavisen.no/innenriks/article321575.ece

Mener pappas lønn er uoppnåelig
http://www.hegnar.no/personlig_okonomi/article236395.ece?TipsEnVenn

MTV Networks International Conducts Wellbeing Study 2007
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6393664.html

History of branding and companies

Brands, brands, brands! Here's a great site that tells you the history of loads of brands.

http://www.historyofbranding.com/
and while this linkhas more articles, etc. on brands: historyofbranding 2

Cap&Design 20yrs present

The brilliant Swedish design magazine Cap&Design is celebrating 20 years anniversary. And they are so nice, so they let us download 23 PDF backissues for free. Go to www.capdesign.se/jubilar20 Username: Läsare Password: jubileumsläsning

Happy birthday Cap (and to all readers: enjoy the PDFs.. :)!

Steve and Bill meet again

The biggest guys in the data age met again. Thats Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for the novices.

Quite interesting how those guys are really similar (appearance, computer knowledge, voice etc), yet Steve always is a bit cooler. Just like Macs.. :P

A short summary of the meeting can be read: http://www.nytimes.com/technology/


Or, if you really are interested, see all the videos at: All things digital.
video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-prologue/

Arbeiderpartiet sier:Alle skal med!

Arbeiderpartiet har hatt landsmøte og fått seg nytt slagord. Det nye slagordet er: "Alle skal med". Leste en fin kommentar idag i DN av Kjetil B. Alstadheim i dag. Han skriver bla.:

"Slagordet høres ut som en sosialdemokratisk søndagstur. Alle skal med, enten de vil eller ikke. Men i Folkets Hus var det full begeistring."

Alle liker f.eks. skitur søndagsmorgen kl 8.... :)

Nektes iPod-hjelp

Slemme, slemme Apple... http://forbruker.no/digital/nyheter/mp3/article1255874.ece

Lov om beskyttelse av design

You might want to find out about the laws of copyrights regarding your new and beautiful designed logo..?

http://www.patentstyret.no

Stooopid is a stoopid does

Sometimes advertising doesn't go the companies way.. Here are some examples of that. (in Norwegian)NA24: Toppen av dumhet

It's deja vu all over again

Here's an article I found in the New Yorker about NOTABLE QUOTABLES.

"It's deja vu all over again," are Berra-isms, whether Yogi Berra ever said them or not.

Read the whole thing here: http://www.newyorker.com

Change default font in InDesign

Like me, I suppose there are may out there that mainly work on one specific project at the time. And usually that means one default font too. Though Adobe, like Microsoft, love Times New Roman. So here's how to change the default font in InDesign:

You can make any active font the default font in the document by first making sure that's nothing's selected in your document (Command-Shift-A/Ctrl-Shift-A), then choosing the font you want from the Type > Font submenu or in the Character palette. All new text frames you create from then on in the document will use your new default font. If you change the default font without any documents open, that will be your new default font for all new InDesign documents you create.

This works for all other formatting defaults too!

More interesting InDesign tips from Informit

Penguin plans 'wiki-novel'

A really interesting book concept by Penguin:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2003520,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10

amillionpenguins blog/

http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php

LEGO: Fra byggeklodser til bytes til byggeklodser

Really interesting article I found about my favourite toy, Lego. It's Danish though..

http://www.kommunikationsforum.dk

http://www.lego.com/

The art of conversation

Found a great article in the Economist about conversation. Here are the main rules:

"The rules we learn from Cicero are these: speak clearly; speak easily but not too much, especially when others want their turn; do not interrupt; be courteous; deal seriously with serious matters and gracefully with lighter ones; never criticise people behind their backs; stick to subjects of general interest; do not talk about yourself; and, above all, never lose your temper. Probably only two cardinal rules were lacking from Cicero's list: remember people's names, and be a good listener."

Read the whole article here: Economist: The art of conversation