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Here’s a nice description about brand and experience from Brandon Schauer and Josh Levine posted on the Adaptive Path blog.

On the heels of beloved Helvetica, comes Objectified, the second documentary film by Gary Hustwit. And like Helvetica, the new film is intended as a conversation among industry experts — this time, of industrial design.

Source: Veer

Victors & Spoils is a new ad agency based in Boulder that bills itself as “the world’s first creative (ad) agency built on crowdsourcing principles.” Their stated goal is “to provide businesses with a better way to solve their marketing, advertising and product-design problems by engaging world’s most talented creatives.”

Feel free to go help them design their new logo if you’re into that kind of thing. It’ll be interesting to see how the whole crowdsourcing strategy plays out.

Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion is a jaw-dropping wonder to behold. I love the patience required, the expertise with old school craft, and of course – the finished product.

Thanks for the heads up, Chris!

Go here. Scroll down. Be happy. I’m sure the plug-in is nice too. Maybe I’ll get to it eventually… once I quit scrolling up and down.

Source: Boagworld

The folks at Clearleft and Headscape recently got together for a chat. The first 7 minutes are pretty dopey, but if you can get past the setup, the 49 minutes that follow are really interesting. They covered the following topics:

• The differences between the working practices of Clearleft and Headscape
• The beginnings of the two companies
• The pros and cons of being a total service company like Headscape or specialising like Clearleft
• The importance of passion in what we do
• Deciding when to adopt new innovations
• Whether locations affects success
• Our plans for the future

10/GUI aims to extend the WIMP interface by rethinking the desktop to leverage technology in an intuitive and powerful way.

Not looking to do a complete redesign? Just need to play around with the layout of a site? Check out this demo from BoagWorld, or just go get Grid. It’s a bookmarklet that superimposes an editable grid over your page. Using something like FireBox, you could then adjust your CSS to fit. Very cool.

One day I’ll make it to FOWA. In the meantime, I’ll watch presentations like this from Carsonified on Vimeo.

I’m not sure how much PanorEmo costs, but I really like the idea (and the interface). You can play around with the tool on their site. It enables folks to provide emotional feedback about an environment.