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Sony If you haven’t been to the Sony site in a while, do check it out again. They have some excellent designs. Some of my favorites are here, and here. And this would be nice if we have any filthy rich readers (email me if you want to send me one).

If you wait until all the lights are “green” before you leave home, you’ll never get started on your trip to the top. — Zig Ziglar

Pretty much every page on the web is mostly text, with an image or two scattered about. And that works fine for a lot of things. But how about a site that acts more like a magazine ad – a big beautiful photo, with a little text inset? That’s how Blue Parallel, a South American…

An interesting character designed to help rural customers get comfortable with electricity in the 1920s. The ears are made of electrical outlets. Original Medium: Corporate spokestoon Speaking for: Alabama Power Company First Appeared: 1926 Creator of Record: Ashton B. Collins Sr. More here and here.

I recently spoke with a home builder that couldn’t understand why a web site couldn’t be quoted over the phone. Since I’ve always used the metaphore that “building a web site is like building a house” I assumed that the person on the other end would understand. You know, it goes like this: “It’s really…

Digg announced the 10 finalists for their API contest. Now the Digg community gets to vote for one week to decide the prize winners. This may be a little shameless, but I would like to point out that one of the finalists is a Flash piece that I created: http://digg.com/design/Wheel_of_Upcoming The original page for it…