Archive for the ‘world news’ Category

The 35 Sexiest Designed Websites you’ve Forgotten, part 3

August 16, 2007

Design Inspiration, especially for the upcoming CSS/Standards Reboots. Feel free to enjoy the third edition of the biannual 35-sexiest list, this time with 23 CSS-based and 12 Flash-based designs. You will refresh your memory with the sexiest designed websites you may have forgotten about.

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LogoMaid steals logo from SimpleBits

August 16, 2007

“History is repeated” and LogoMaid.com is at it again. This assembly line for cheap, non-original logos appears to have taken the new logo from SImpleBits, modified the shape slightly, and tried to pawn it off as their own. If you would have some free time feel free to read a pretty long discussion which takes place on this Flickr page between designers and someone who appears to be involved with LogoMaid.

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Yoga Patented?

May 17, 2007

The United States government has issued 150 yoga-related copyrights, 134 patents on yoga accessories and 2,315 yoga trademarks. There’s big money in those pretzel twists and contortions — $3 billion a year in America alone.

Though the original article is written in poor English it has received about 500 diggs in total, so I suggest that you will digg this one if you feel like support this movement. In case you want to make thing clear about the situation I recommend that you read NY Times’ A Big Stretch by SUKETU MEHTA.

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