Draw and Fold Over – http://www.drawandfoldover.com
A lovely social drawing site. Choose your pen and take it in turns to draw. In association with ‘The Big Draw’ which takes place throughout October, offering drawing events for people of all ages and abilities.
Fflick.com – http://fflick.com/
A social film site that makes it simple to see the films your friends are talking about, and what they think of them. Twitter sign-in. No Facebook here.
History Pin – http://www.historypin.com/
A great project by We Are What We Do to get generations talking, sharing and coming together more often. Developed in partnership with Google.
The Most Refreshing Pint – http://themostrefreshingpint.com/
Have a ‘sip’ on a pint (nice Drinkaware language there). See if you win a free prize. Refresh to try again. Simple.
Puma and Droga5 are launching a genuine stock market ticker app that measures the rising and falling market by the amount of exposed flesh on some good looking folks. The more values drop, the more clothes come off.
People are already shouting that it’s “inspired” by Sexy Politics but I never saw that. Google it if you want – the site appears to be gone now.
This is the absolutely brilliant response from IKEA:
We’re surprised, but I think it’s mainly experts who have expressed their views, people who are interested in fonts. I don’t think the broad public is that interested.
Verdana is a simple, cost-effective font which works well in all media and languages.
What do you think?
Does it matter what “experts” say compared to the “general public”?
Ikea are a very design based company so you’d have thought they would’ve paid more of an interest.
But I like their downplaying of it citing ‘practical reasons’. It kinda works.
