Rene Magritte on my Mac

I really love Rene Magritte, so what could then be better than to place him on my MacBook Pro? Etsy.com has some great dekals for $13. But which is best?

Improve the iPhone usabillity

The iPhone's interface is in many ways amazingly simple and intuitive, but it would be good to customise it. In lack of this option, I hope Apple reads my post and make my suggested improvements.

1. Phonebook: Favorites
Ther iPhone relies heavily on icons, though the "Favorites" tab under "Contacts" does not. It is a normal text list:

Using the Contacts photos would be much easier and allows for my contacts without scrolling. The application "My Phone Plus For Facebook" has done this already, displaying 9 contacts as opposed to the current 8:

However making the icons the same size as the rest of the iPhone's icons would give a total of 16 favorites (considering I have several hundred contacts, 16 is not that many..:)



2. Many applications installed gives loads of scrolling
If you are like me, then you have many apps installed. This means right scrolling and scrolling the screen to the right. Vertical scrolling has though not been used:


Small circles could indicate where one is:


3. Most of my contacts have birthdays noted in the phonebook.
Why isn't this info linked up to the calendar? Or at least one ought to have the option to get notifications of birthdays. (I use fbCal to have birthdays in another calendar on the iPhone, but I tend to forget to look at it. Hence the desire for birthday intergration.


4. Improve battery life A product can be as fantastic as it wants, but when such a basic feature isn't in place, then quite alot falls apart. I mean, if I make it through the day with one charing I am happy. Heavy usage makes it last maybe 7-8 hours. Sorry, MAC. Please improve.

Great typography sites

Webdesignledger has made as great list of 10 Incredible Sites to Improve Your Typography Skills

Personal favourites include:
Helveticons.ch
Great websitedesign, great icons. All based on Helvetica Yummy.

Typesites.com
Proper reviews of website typography. Good stuff.

More business card inspiration

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

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.

Buy a logo, domain or even business concept!

Why bother think, when someone else can? Buy the lot at
http://incspring.com

Cheap laptop stands made of cardboard

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.

Find inspiration from other websites

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".

Kikora logo changed (for the worse)

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?!
2.

New Statoil logo reminds me a bit of Organdonasjon

Not that much, but a bit. Then again, a star is a star I assume... :) (not really ready to comment on the new logo. Not decided what I think of it yet. What do you think?

Designer lamps that rock (a give light!)

Having a house in Norway (or most other places for that matter), means needing light. But you dont want just any light. You want a sexy lamp to accompany that light. I present: 4 lamps I want for Christmas. (a bit early maybe, but...)

The Sticker Lamp (Tall & Tiny) by created by Italian designer Alicero Signoli.
Buy them at PA Design












The Liquid Lamp by Caina’s Design Shop. A bit pricey at US $262, but really cool













Neon Lamp
(created by yourself) thanks to design by OpenDesignClub and Instructables.com













Or the slightly more futuristic (non existing) "PC lamp" by designer Seungchan Lee

Kvasir has new logo too

Norwegian serach engine Kvasir.no has a gotten a new logo today(and a new site that currently seems to be down..) Guess which one is the new one...?!

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

Why are all these icons for free!?

They all look great: http://iconpot.com/ is my honey pot!

I am a nerd: more cool Lego robots

Just found this fantastic Lego robot on Flickr:

SAFS Heart

by someone called Gambort. He/She has a album called Mecca filled with cool Lego robots. I love the Internet!

Logo design tips by Designer Daily

Designing a logo? In need of some guidelines? Read the "10 tips for a logo design that works" by Designer Daily. Some tips are obvious like 1. use vectors, but either you are a newbie or not, keep these tips in the back of your head. Some rules might be good to follow!

Ah, and then there are a bunch of commentaries suggesting even more tips.

Looking for business card inspiration?

Some great businesscard designs can be found on Reencoded

Good looking icons

This site has loads of really good looking icons and templates to download. Quite complex design too.

http://www.httpartist.com

Lego art by Nathan Sawaya

Lego is and always will be great. Nathan has taken this a tid bit further... See his portfolio on
brickartist.com

See how he made Master chief in the below video.

MTV Shows

Create your own desginer belt: Apple Mac Pro Mouse Beltbuckle

Finally a thing to do with your all electronic trash.. Instructables has a great site with loads of tutorials and tips how to create fun stuff, just like this really nerdy beltbuckle: http://www.instructables.com/id/Pro-Mouse-Beltbuckle/

Stylish looking suitcase and other sexy industrial designs

If you wonder what I want for christmas, just get any of Joyes designs..
http://www.joeyroth.com

Nabaztag the cute rabbit

Funky looking digital rabbit the Nabaztag that is connected to the Internet. Reads your email, rss feeds, oh... I dont get it really. BUT I want one now! Bit steep price though 145Euro...
http://www.nabaztag.com

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

Transformers: Robots made of paper!

All boys love Transformers and the coolest of the gang is Megatron. Now check out this fantastic free paper robot. Cut and glue I say!
http://www.paperrobots1999.com

Rimi supermarket has a new logo...

Not that the old logo was that beautiful, but what is the new logo!? Looks like mix of the airline Sterling (RIP) and Ulvang wool. Sorry, but am REALLY not convinced... Ah, fun is to see that the Rimi website still hasnt been updated withe the new logo.

Amazing wallpapers

http://dlanham.com/art/lasthouse/

Free and amazing computer wallpapers. Super design. Ah.. all is good.

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...!?

Save Polaroids now

Polaroid is dead. Long live Polaroid (online)

Save Polaroid
http://www.savepolaroid.com/
http://flickr.com
http://ffffound.com/

Piet Mondrian does shoes

Piet Mondrian shoes by Vans. Of course found in Japan. Why do they get all the cool stuff!?
http://zozo.jp/shop

Loads of free comic fonts! Even Roy Lichtenstein style

You want to use Roy Lichtensteins comic font that he used in his speech bubbles? One was created by Albright-Knox Art Gallery: "P22 Pop Art Comic"

According to Fontshop
"The Pop Art font set was developed for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. The Comic typeface, in regular and bold italic, was inspired by the work of Roy Lichtenstein, whose crisp, clear caps were distinctive but legible."

You can buy it for example here:
Fonts.com

Dont want to pay? Here are loads of free alternatives:
hans.presto
Blambot
manfred-klein

"Laffayette Comic Pro" is fairly similar:
dafont

Skandiabanken has a new design...

From blue to black site. Seems like all websites go black this days. They have cleaned up a bit and the site looks fresher. But is it really better?

Funny products for iPod / Mac geeks (like me..)

Pretty cool place to place your glass, but really expensive...http://www.meninos.us

Loads of great looking RSS feed icon for free

This Russian website has collected an amazing collection of RSS feed icons. Just look at the funny Ikea version!

http://malevi4.wordpress.com Great stuff!

Create good-looking word clouds: Wordle

Heres a word cloud based on my blog. Create your own at http://wordle.net/create

Read magazines online for free

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

How to create a Roy Lichtenstein style image in Photoshop or Illustrator

Here are some great tutorials if you would like to become a pop-art artist!

http://vectortuts.com/illustration/turning-a-photo-into-lichtenstein-style-pop-art-with-illustrator/




http://www.creativepro.com/article/digital-pop-art-unleash-your-inner-warhol

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-popart.html

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=11762

Pantone magnetic calendar designed by Stokke Austad

Heres a great protoype for a Pantone magnetic calendar, designed by Stokke Austad. It will be displayed at Home Acessories at 100% Norway 2008 in Earls Court, London.

Heres a selection of other great designs from Norway that will be at 100% Norway

Global logo trends according to logolounge.com

LogoLounge.com have categorised 27 000 logos and found a couple of trends: supernova, fine lines, FoldOver, etc, etc.!

A great overview and inspiration.

Robots made of fonts are Fontbots!

As a design nerd, you gotta love these fontbots made by Jonathon Yule:
http://www.invdr.com/invdr_portfolio_fontbots.html

Its a bird, its a plane, no it is Helbotica!

Western (animated) Spaghetti by PES

Great animated cooking video made by PES.

Visit more great videos http://www.eatpes.com/

Amazing (design) reports

Annual company reports dont always have to be dull. Just look at the beatiful reports done by http://feltron.com/

Pantone color selector

Easy way of finding Pantone color numbers

paintselector

http://www.mrsdesign.co.uk/colours.htm

5 sites that sell you on the web

The Swedish mag has gathered 5 sites that are good for designers wanting to promote themselves online:
http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.161853

D&AD Awards 2008 winner

the results are in:
http://www.dandad.org/awards08/index.asp

and these are the categories:
Ambient
Art Direction
Book Design
Branding
Broadcast Innovations
Digital Installations
Direct
Environmental Design
Gaming
Graphic Design
Juries I-P
Illustration
Integrated
Magazine & Newspaper Design
Mobile Marketing
Music Videos
Online Advertising
Packaging Design
Photography
Poster Advertising
Press Advertising
Juries P-W
Product Design
Radio
TV & Cinema Advertising
TV & Cinema Crafts
TV & Cinema Graphics
Typography
Viral
Websites
Writing for Advertising
Writing for Design

I particullary like the Yellow pencil winner for Writing for Advertising (TV & Cinema Advertising)
Title: Michael Madsen
Agency: Mother
Client: Orange

Paint websites gold!

Campaign site done by agency: Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis. Pretty cool tagging other sites, while listening to good music:

http://www.paintthatshitgold.com/

Read more about it here:

http://www.frederiksamuel.com

Webby awards 2008

The winners of the Webby Awards 2008 have been chosen. And here are my favourites: BEST NAVIGATION/STRUCTURE Nominees Blenderbox Schematic

BEST USE OF ANIMATION OR MOTION GRAPHICS People's Voice Winner: Zune Journey Agency: T.A.G. SF / Firstborn

BEST VISUAL DESIGN - AESTHETIC Checkland Kindleysides Agency/Credited Organization: Sennep

atmostheory - Please do not copy

http://www.atmostheory.com/ Kinda of nerdy Apple command jokes, but still pretty cool poster from atmostheory

Webcasts fra Gulltaggen

Se webcasts fra Gulltaggen 2008. Bla. Bill Whitehorn fra Virign Galactic

http://icecube.no/inma/

Cool t-shirts from Phatrags

Some are quite rude, but others you might wanna wear. I particullary like this Jesus one. It says: "Jesus saves, after each level he passes"

http://www.phatrags.com/
Use this code if you want to save 10%: phat10a

Cool designer font screensavers

A great Helvetica screensaver from: http://scr.sc/products/dropclock/ And its both for Windows and osX! HOWEVER: 136mb for a screensaver is rather heavy.. (And I cant seem to get it downloaded somehow...) Any help?

This wordclock is also pretty cool:
http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/

Looking for more news on type? Check out this: http://www.typeneu.com/

Norwegian musicfestival posters

NORGES KULESTE FESTIVALPLAKAT
Have a look at most of Norways musicfestival posters at VG. Personally Im quite fond of Arendals "Canal Street" poster designed by Innoventi

Brandjunkie survey

Brandchannel:

The Brandjunkie survey results: http://www.brandchannel.com/features_effect.asp?pf_id=415

A concentrated dose of the Brandjunkies results http://brandchannel.com/features_effect.asp?pf_id=416

Padre Paranoia sells funky t-shirts!

My Spanish friend Chema has gotten his new website up and running. See (and order!) his great designs at
http://www.padreparanoia.com/

Personally, I like the flying Leika the best :)

Next years color trends

At least this is according to the Swedes at Cap&Design

http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.156101

Design your own font

Easy web application to create your own font for free. They will be under Creative Commons license and hence free for all users

Test it here: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Loads of Typos at ilovetypography.com

John D Boardley is from the UK, but lives in Japan. He has a great blog about fonts:

http://ilovetypography.com/

David Collins website

One of my tutors, Dave Collins, from Leeds College of Art & Design has an quite interresting website: http://www.davidcollins.info/

Buy your tshirt now, get free shipping!

At a Minimum Order of £
35 or 50€ or 400 Norwegian Kroner. Free Shipping and a red String Thong for free! Code: Valentinus2008+
Visit my webshop now: http://www.portada.no/butikk/

Find images and photos

Sometimes you might wanna find images, photos or god forgive: even clip-arts! Well, search no further:

http://www.deviantart.com/

Just look at the beautiful "dirty paper" I found in REALLY HIGH resolution! Yummy.

Internal joke for nerdy designers: Design Police

Extremly funny templates for designers who think that just because you have the tools (Adbobe CS), means that you know design.

Download template for sticker production and let people know what you think about posters, ads, etc. that you see everywhere around you.

http://www.design-police.org/

Favorite Website Awards

Wanna see many cool website, that win awards, all at one time? Here you go:

http://www.thefwa.com/

A whole new time! (Neolog´s design watch)

The German company Neolog have made this really cool wristwatch, called NEOLOG A-24 II. Rather than showing the time with numbers or a dial, the digital watch shows time as line.

NEOLOG is based on dividing time into intelligible units: Hours, units of ten minutes, and units of one minutes which are arranged in vertical blocks.

It takes a bit getting used to (at least for the first hour of having the watch..:) BUT it is so sexy... Christmas tip of the year I say! (too late for most countries, but if the gifts are given on the Holy 3 Kings Day there is still a chance!)

Check out the site (and order it) http://www.neolog.cc/english/ Ahh... and the site has some widget downloads too :)

Microsofts iPod

Ok, so there is quite alot truth in the this video:


However, I really find the Zune Art site excellent! Its really a creative ad campaign that uses animation and indie tunes to promote the Zune. It ought to generate a buzz online. Loads of freebies: wallpaper, videos, even faltpack toys!Check it out:

http://www.zune-arts.net/

Potential Architecture in Norway

Theres a new website called Potential Architecture. It shows a wide selection of projects that of some reason nevere were realised. Quite interesting site I find.

Heres one project that unfortunately wasnt done: www.potentialarchitecture.com

The project in Røros, was done by Huus og Heim (who happens to be a friend of mine! :)
http://www.huusogheim.no/

Lego screensaver and other fun things

A site called 9031.com has loads of cool screensavers, wallpapers, etc. for free. Especially I love the "briblo" screensaver. Which is really loads of legos falling. AND if you have dualscreen (like I do), each screen shows a different lego setup. COOL!

http://www.9031.com/downloads/index.html

Free fonts and other free things...

Quite dumb name for a site "Hacking Ballz", but they have quite nice free fonts (for testing purposes only of course!...)

http://www.hackingballz.com/fuentes/a

Happy website

A friend of mine tipped me about this site. Its a US based webdesign company called The Happy Corp Global. Pretty cool site, with loads of info. http://www.thehappycorp.com/words/

New Holmenkollen ski jump – Extending Tradition

Congrats to the Danish architects of JDS / Julien de Smedt for winning the competition for the new Oslo Holmenkollen ski jump. Hope it will be built and ready to use in 2010. See all finalist here:
http://www.kultur-og-idrettsetaten.oslo.kommune.no

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

Vector logos in EPS: Its Brands of the World!

At some point you need a companies logo vectorized, because you have a presentation to do, your client hasnt supplied you with a logo, or if do do have, its a crappy jpg. BUT help is near! Loads of logos can be found on: http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/

Mainly US logo, but hey! Give globalisation some time and all logos are here...

902 days later and finally a new a.beining.com website

This is a screenshot of a.beining.com version 2. It lasted me 902 days. And around 2000 visits, of which 50% came from Norway, 13% Spain, 7% China (Beining is a city in China apparently), USA, UK ++

Most use XP (53%) and IE 6 (34%). BUT being a portfolio site, loads of Macers have come around too! 37% use osX and 34% Safari. Not bad.. :)

Well, after so long time without any updates (last one was the 1. of June 2006..), I was getting embaressed, SO without any further ado: TATAA! http://a.beining.com all new!

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.. :)!

Designer box wine cooler

Heres a quite beautiful wine cooler for box wine. Its made out of metal and wood. And exist in black, white and red. They are sold for 1.000 NOK at Henie Onstad museum near Oslo. For more info: http://www.erdmanndesign.com/

Moderno vs Modena, logo similarities

Over a year ago I designed the logo for the architect firm, Moderno. Handdrawn font in black, white and red.

Then, the other day, I discovered a company called http://www.modena.no/ Really similar name to Moderno. BUT even the logo looks VERY similar to the one I designed.

Judge for yourself (I guess, just great minds think alike! :)

The Robotic Chair

“The Robotic Chair”, collaborations with Canadian artists Max Dean and Matt Donovan. The Robotic Chair, their latest piece, is a work in progress. It was completed in mid-summer 2006, at which time it will make its first public appearance.

How cool was that?! I want one now!

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

Sweet font: Popgod!

By popular request, here is a quite cool font I found at the Fontshop: Popgod

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/device_fonts/popgod/

Is THIS the one you like!?

or is it more this one: Zacron

Norwegian design agency

This agency is quite good, amongst other project they've done Quart.

http://www.norwegianink.com/

New Rave again: Klaxons

Ah, and while we are at it. I have to show you two of my favourite tracks for the time being. Two songs by the Klaxons. And as you can see: neon colors all over the place.. :)

Klaxons - "Gravity's Rainbow"


Klaxons - "Atlantis to Interzone"


Turn up the volume for this track!!

Style of the season: New Rave

Ok, no question about what colours and style we ought to follow the next months: Its New Rave with neon colours and a happy mix of the 80s and 90s rave. Klaxons sing the soundtrack well, BUT I think that somehow things become so similar. Just have a look at the screenshots of the Norwegian musicfestivals websites:

Øya:

Quart:
Hove (not really the same colorscheme, but quite similar freaky illustration style to Øya):
Oh, and if I have to choose festival: Hove has by far the best line-up. At least for my liking. Anyone want to join me!?

Spiegel Designclicks & music

The German magazine Spiegel has some good design/photo collection. Check it out here:

http://designklicks.spiegel.de/index.php#dk=002

Also, if you need some suggestion for music: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/0,1518,473950,00.html

Create favicons for webbrowsers

This site is great for creating favicons:
http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/
The best is to create a square image from before, so you place your image correctly.

Oboy Oboy posters

Went to Oboy Oboy, clubconcept in Oslo, on saturday. That was excelent! Snuten played live and Timbuktu played som records too. Their website is a bit outdated, but check out their funky flyers!

http://web.mac.com/kulturarena/iWeb/oboy/Bilder.html

Grindhouse - Make your own trailer

This Tarantino movie looks really cool! The art department have done a really good job with the trailer and especially the website. Have never seen a site with so much info and extras. Closest I come is "V for Vendetta", which also have great design.

The "Make your own trailer" of Grindhouse is excelent (seen on the left):
http://www.grindhousemovie.net/

Design blog

Here's great design blog I discovered the other day.

Check it out: http://veerle.duoh.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

How to convert bitmaps - Tracing

http://www.masternewmedia.org

Posters Smokin Aces

Really cool way of showing the development of the posters and letting everyone participate.

This is from Posterwires site:
"Smokin’ Aces director Joe Carnahan’s official site features a weblog written by the film’s creator about the upcoming film. For the past few months, Carnahan has been posting Smokin’ Aces poster designs that didn’t make the cut. It’s a rare opportunity to see all the unproduced movie posters that never make it to your local movie theatre lobby. As most film advertising art directors and designers will tell you, sometimes their best poster design work never sees the light of day beyond their own portfolios."

http://www.posterwire.com/

Some really ugly, but most acctually have really high standard:

http://www.smokinjoecarnahan.com/posters.htm

Russian proppaganda posters

Am working on the design profile for Radio Nova's 25 yr anniversary. Thought Russian propaganda style would look good. So I found some inspiration here:
http://www.typogabor.com

Great "russian" style font:
typonauten/dimitri/

http://www.internationalposter.com

Free shipping!

Some people might have noticed that I sell my own designed t-shirts here: http://www.portada.no/butikk

Well, as Valetine's Day is approaching I'm being nice and giving free shipping untill the 14.2.2007. The free shipping code is:

VALENTIN07

So nothing to keep you from shopping now!

Great and funny stuff to buy

More great products are found at http://www.atypyk.com/

Create Letterhead Templates in MS Word

Follow www.CreativeTechs.com instructions. However, remember to place the image while in the header/footer view. "View -> Header/Footer"
(Only useful on a one-page document, or in a one-page section, or if it's the first page of a document or section.) If not placed in the Header, the image will not be locked and will easily move around when using the template.

Here are some HP letterhead suggestions

InDesign - rounded corners

Yes, this is possible! And quite easy too

Select a frame, open the Corner Effects dialog box:

Or as Adobe write:

Apply corner effects

- Using a selection tool, select a path.
- Choose Object > Corner Options.
- Choose a corner effect in the Effect menu.
For Size, type a value to specify the radius by which the corner effect extends from each corner point.
- Select Preview if you want to see the results of the effect before applying it. Then click OK.

Check out Adobes site: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6bf1.html

Or:

http://www.indesignsecrets.com/make-one-or-more-round-corners-on-an-indesign-frame.php

And these seem to be old (and dead links......)

indesign-cs-rounded-corners/

or try this one:
http://www.uwec.edu/help/InDesignCS/corner-effects.htm