Stampede for 'Bush shoe' creates 100 new jobs

Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has been swamped with orders from across the world, after insisting that his company produced the black leather shoes which the Iraqi journalist Muntazar al-Zaidi threw at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last Sunday. ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/22/turkey-george-bush-shoe

Type Trumps

http://www.face37.com/#/work/type-trumps/

Clock for Identity Designers

Last month, I wrote about the day I spent obsessively chronicling all the brands, logos, identities and symbols - all 1,035 - that I interact with throughout the day. This research was done for a project I was working on at the time in the Visual Communication Design program at Arizona State University under Professor Al Sanft. This clock serves as a reminder that we are constantly enveloped by brands.

http://www.fillslashstroke.com/slash/2008/12/a-clock-for-identity-designers/

Web of Influence_DEC 9, 08, NYT

The United States attorney’s office in Chicago accused Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of having numerous schemes for profiting from his office. The affidavit contains details of a five-year investigation into public corruption and accusations of “pay to play” deals. This chart shows some of Mr. Blagojevich’s interactions with advisers, fund-raisers and other individuals, both named and unnamed.


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/09/us/20081209_corruption.html

Draw Me Schools Of Commercial Art

http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38860#more

Israeli Candidate Borrows a (Web) Page From Obama

The colors, the fonts, the icons for donating and volunteering, the use of videos, and the social networking Facebook-type options — including Twitter, which hardly exists in Israel — all reflect a conscious effort by the Netanyahu campaign to learn from the Obama success.

http://netanyahu.org.il/

Design_Objets Cultes

The French daily newspaper 'Le Monde' launches a weekly magazine called 'Le Monde 2' that serves as a supplement for the daily's weekly edition. Recently the magazine was accompanied by the first book out of a collection of 20 that starts to introduce 999 design objects through facts about how these objects had such a success, their history, and the steps taken toward their design process. Check it out!

http://boutique.lemonde.fr/boutique/product_info.php?products_id=252&osCsid=e9a93eb926ef0f17049a2c535f8eb9ca

http://www.lemonde.fr/kiosque/design/#fra-fr/collection/vol-01