http://www.makeownringtone.com/

Ok, I know the website is really cheesy and there are lots of ads, but the interface works very well and even though they directly e-mailed the mp3 to my phone, they haven’t spammed me. Here’s my new ringtone:

So get rid of that stupid “Verizon Moods” factory ringtone and get a one that won’t embarass you. It’s free.

Typography has always been my strength in design, so instead of being frustrated, I resorted to what I knew. The only typeface used is Rockwell, which looks great pulled, pushed enlarged, suggested, shown, etc. I don’t think I’ve used Rockwell previously, but it is certainly in my palette now. Only six words are used and three images, including the piano aflame image by Jason Krekel that they use as a logo.

Problem solving + creativity = design.

I love doing it.

Here’s some of my inspiration. Smashing Magazine: Breathtaking Typographic Posters

Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre is awesome. Pun based visual humour with a vaguely Victorian tilt? Yes please!

Thanks, Malia. This rocks.

Asheville Street Style
An Asheville street fashion blog run by MountainX. Rarely am I so vain, but I desperately want to get on there. I wear a necktie like 4 days a week! Come on!

Ukelele Rockstar
Ami plays uke and sings with Mad Tea Party, a great Asheville-based band. In addition, she’s a great gal that updates her blog frequently with interesting stuff from her experience as a musician.

The White House Blog
It went live at noon on January 20th. Come on, the President has a frickin blog? That’s cool. We should all read it. Check out all of the new tools to keep informed by the White House. It’s impressive that the Obama is STILL this 2.0 — s0 support it.

Typography-map-prank trifecta complete! I wish this place really existed. Sigh. I suppose I should go back to studying for my Anthroplogy test tomorrow.

Courtesy the incredibly good Strange Maps.

GraphJam is pretty much some of the smartest, dumbest, mostest superlative fun on the internet. Check it out.

MoOM: The Museum of Online Museums

This is an incredible website. Here’s just a sample of the online museums they feature.

• The Met’s Timeline of Art History †
• National Gallery of Art †
• Rijksmuseum †
• Russian Museums List †
• Museum of Design Zurich †
• Smithsonian Art Museum Weblog †
• Museum of the History of Science at Oxford †
• Virtual Museum of Canada †
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum †
• SFMOMA †
• American Package Museum
• The Bauhaus Archive
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Musée d’Orsay
• The Museum of Useful Things
• Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design
• Rhode Island School of Design
• MoMA
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• The Smithsonian

www.mint.com

Joshua Green Describes The View From Denver

In this segment from Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Joshua Green talks about Bill Clinton’s speech Wednesday day. He makes the same observation I did and recycled the same Comeback Kid catch phrase, reiterating that Bill has really come out swinging hard for Obama.

Good thinking. Ideas for other Presidential Tributes:

• The William Taft Memorial Bath Tub
• The William H. Harrison Pneumonia Rehabilitation Center
• The Harry Truman Newspaper Accuracy Council
• Ulysses Simpson Grant Memorial Whiskey Tavern
• The Eisenhower Military-Industrial Condominium

Any other ideas?