Good Reads
OCTOBER 2009

FRIDAY, October 30th, 2009
Motorola Droid review

Need some pretty for the day? Jewel Box star cluster as seen by Hubbel.

History Channel - The History of Halloween

Google's Discover Music app

Lala.com (listen to up to 7 million songs for free)

7th grader and her 80 year old grandfather are the first to discover that Barack
Obama is related to every president in US history with the exception of one.


THURSDAY, October 29th, 2009
Meat hand

Google's CEO dishes on his thoughts about five years ahead on the web

Seven bad writing habits you learned in school

A town sized optical illusion

Designer wins contest for a font grown out of bacteria


WEDNESDAY, October 28th, 2009
Cool visual company identities

Top 12 internet scams of the 2000's

Origin of  the name on Disney's Haunted Mansion tombstones

Sixties City.com

Police respond to "chaotic scene" at  Chuck E Cheese


TUESDAY, October 27th, 2009
40 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Gadgets of the near future

Eight ways to share mix tapes

Optical Ink the art of Adam Paul Thrope

100 amazing Russian retro poster designs


MONDAY, October 26th, 2009
38 websites for Photoshop Tutorials

How e-books will reshape the printing industry

Lotsa pumpkins

Graffiti Arts

Some background on Optical Illusions


FRIDAY, October 23rd, 2009
Color photography from 1900's Russia

10 disgusting candies

Most distant galaxy cluster discovered

Tesla - Master of lightning

The "No Impact Week" guide


THURSDAY, Octoberf 22nd, 2009
Five technologies that will change everything

Entrepreneur says he strikes oil with our garbage

Teen designs "house ecological self"

Color psychology in creative design

10 color resources and tools


WEDNESDAY, October 21st, 2009
Why NOT to use logos like these  *explanation*

Art as Visual Research: 12 Examples of Kinetic Illusions in Op Art

Psychedelic inspired 2010 Alice In Wonderland calendar

Forensic Art: Finding missing kids using Photoshop

HOW big is Antarctica? Need a mental image to help you see?


TUESDAY, October 20th, 2009
Times Square without cars?

Smithsonian air travel vintage posters

Massachusetts town uses goats to mow lawns

Artist admits using key AP photo for 'HOPE' poster

Simpson's contest lets winner become a character on the show


MONDAY, October 19th, 2009
Laser engraved money art

Train an army of crows to gather money for you

Viscosity... a modern art generator

25 notable music websites

Facial expressions illustrations


THURSDAY, October 15th, 2009
Barnes and Noble's E-Reader digital book device

25 dookie fresh logo collections

Article explains that youth "cannot live" without web

Out of your head: Leaving the body behind

The dollar ReDesign Project

Cracker Jack lives on


WEDNESDAY, October 14th, 2009
The future of homes looks modular

How plagiarised artwork ended up in the white house

Old school Halloween Polaroids

Creating a portfolio without having worked with clients

Bodie California...ghost town...


TUESDAY, October 13th, 2009
Extremely unique look at the topography of what New York used to look like.

Why e-mail no longer rules

45 outstanding and free old, old school scribe and antique fonts

Should students be paid to do well in school?

The vertical farm project


MONDAY, October 12th, 2009
35 logos which will make you look twice

Future phones dazzle with their designs

Ten teen entrepreneurs to watch

Musicians who have filed bankruptcy

Junk Food Blog


FRIDAY, October 9th, 2009
NBC sued over illicit use of trademarked fonts

100 pages of World War 1 posters

20 microscopic photography prize winners

26 examples of online t-shirt shops

Cafe Press T-Shirts


THURSDAY, October 8th, 2009
TONIGHT ONLY Live Riffcast of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 at Oldsmar
Woodlands AMC Theatres, They'll parody Plan 9 From Outer Space!

Popular Mechanics 10 most brilliant products of 2009

How social media was born

Solar thermal panel basics

How NOT to design a logo

Chemical Reaction - A True Green Revolution documentary will be released
soon.


WEDNESDAY, October 7th, 2009
What if NFL teams logos matched their performance?

55 Adobe Illustrator icon design tutorials

PhotoSketch . Is this for real?

Burger King plans for "edgy" and "futuristic" remodel of some stores

SkillsUSA student success stories


TUESDAY, October 6th, 2009
The startling statistics behind 2009 album sales

Most used and abused web design trends

Color psychology in design

The T-Shirt sketchbook

What does "love" mean to kids ages 4 to 8.


MONDAY, October 5th, 2009
The lost audio transmissions from Soviet space cosmonauts

USF Graphic Studio

Awesome Halloween costume idea

Study finds amazing benefits for meditating students

T-Shirt contest. Grand prize? $1000


FRIDAY, October 2nd, 2009
Oldest "Human" Ancestor Skeleton Found. Disproves "Missing Link"

World Press Photo Contest Archive

Super Happy Fun Magic Design Dots!

Drew Struzan - A legendary movie poster illustrator
(His website)

Muslims flock to Chuck E Cheese! (At least in Brooklyn)


THURSDAY, October 1st, 2009
Liu Bolin... the invisible man

Internet overtakes television to become UK's largest ad sector

Two awesome Hubble photos

Every McDonalds's in the United States mapped...eeesh!

Belatedly, Egypt finds out why slaughtering all of their pigs was a bad idea