Love these vintage beetle and VW ads.

http://thinkingouttabox.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/vintage-vw-beetle-ads/

While her baby naps, Adele tries to imagine her dreams and capture them.

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At last, we begin to reveal some of the work FINE’s been doing for Apple, with last week’s unveiling of the iPhone Quick Tips series.

The FINE-produced iPhone Quick Tips videos introduce you to all the basics and advanced nuance of the obsessively designed Apple iPhone, in a series of meticulously crafted video shorts now available on iTunes and Apple.com: http://www.apple.com/business/theater/

The iPhone Tips follow on the heels of the ongoing and hugely successful Mac Quick Tips series, also FINE produced.

So, how has this new wave of video content been received? Here’s a couple indications:

1. Within 3 days after launch, iPhone Quick Tips were ranked as the #4 most popular download out of all of video podcasts on iTunes!

2. In the iTunes Technology section, iPhone Quick Tips ranked one notch behind Steve Jobs’ keynote address as the #2 most popular download!  And note that the Mac Quick Tips were #3!

Take the 12 minutes to watch this striking film about artists who hand-paint billboards in NY. Beautifully composed, it offers a glimpse into the lives of these “extreme” painters, who are often doing work 20 stories up in freezing weather on a shifting scaffold. It’s very heartening to see that some companies are willing to spend the money to have this sort of work done. It certainly makes me respect Stella Artois a bit more.

Also, on a related note, New Bohemia Signs here in SF is still crafting beautiful hand-lettered signs, menus, and window letters. Here’s to simpler times, and to getting dirty at work.

Damon Styer of New Bohemia Signs

Google announced that they are releasing high quality open source fonts in the Google Font Directory. Since these are open source you can even download the original font files yourself at the font code.google.com project.

Google has made it very easy to include these fonts into your page using the new Google Font API.

Original post from Ajaxian

A good read on the importance of humanity in software, by Amy at Cheerful.

That color you’ve chosen. It’s probably offending someone in Greece, boring someone in Africa, revolting someone in Singapore, and titillating someone in Mexico. Good luck with your global brand!