What would the world’s most popular logos look like if they were Web 2.0-ified?
Something like this:

Via Micro Persuasion.

Just catching up on Seth’s blog where he calls out the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods from visual-literacy.org.
We’re in accord that it’s a twisted alteration on the periodic table – along the likes of the Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad.
Still, it’s a great cheat sheet for all sorts of sexy graphs. Plus, [...]

Maps can be just as bad as stadium seating charts sporting horrendous uses of color.

Almost as bad as default Excel graphs…

Some people do like to be tasteful, however. Luckily, TopDeq has a stylish replacement for that ugly globe you used to throw around the room in elementary school.

It can be under the [...]

WSJ announced its redesign today by famous newspaper designer Mario Garcia.

Source: The New York Times
Here’s Newsdesigner.com:
The move to a 12-inch-wide front page brings the Journal in line with most American broadsheets (except The New York Times, which makes the switch next August) and is expected to save Dow Jones $18 million a year.
Executives and advertisers [...]

Well, not in the physical sense.

A debate has been brewing over a proposed label design for Santa’s Butt Winter Porter between the company that would like to sell it, Shelton Brothers, the State of New York, and Maine Bureau of Liquor Enforcement.

Last year, the company had similar problems with the label design for Seriously Bad [...]

Perfect holiday gift for your favorite Web junkie:

Get your own at eboy.

Surprise! Our brains enjoy more well-known brands than those that are lesser known.
That’s part of the takeaway from an article by HealthScout titled “Popular Brands May Brand the Brain.”
Better-known brands stirred up areas of the brain’s cortex and elsewhere that are “involved in positive emotional processing and associated with self-identification,” Born said. This activity [...]

Seeing that it’s the day before Thanksgiving, we thought we’d continue with some graphic design fun.

Design Notes: The brief called for “a new look” so we decided to “hip up” the Colonel. We went with emo glasses, some hair dye and trimmed up that goatee into a soul patch. Also, the chin needed some chiseling [...]

What would it be like if flags were put through the wrangle of a standard corporate graphic design process?

Well, you might experience something like this.
Via Seth’s blog.

The boys over at Engadget have a thorough post on the experience of unboxing a spankin’ new Zune.
Some are questioning this:

To set the record straight, “social” can be used as a noun. According to dictionary.com:
–noun
13. a social gathering or party, esp. of or as given by an organized group: a church social.
It reminded us of [...]