I haven’t blabbed much here about how much I hate Sony and their stupid policies (I do that mostly on Twitter), but really, I do hate Sony (their information and copyright policies are retarded, their security is horrible, and they’re so arrogant).

This official design for the disc-art on the “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” DVD though is the only cool thing that Sony has done since the Bravia ads, and the irony of it makes me laugh (Sony are bastards with information sharing, so I wonder if this is a smart designer making a pun or more arrogance from their part). It does after all look like a home-burned, pirated disc that Sony is constantly suing people for.

Yes. I know. I am one of those idiots who finds happiness in iProducts, iThinking, and iAppreciation. I can’t help it. I’ve been a Mac user for five years now, and I still squeal in joy when I touch the perfect aluminum of MacBook Pro. I still smile at the little interface touches in my iPad. I still wow over Apple’s use of words in marketing.

It isn’t just that though. The Apple logo itself, especially the minimalistic silhouette on iProducts, gives me joy. It brings up thoughts of creating presentations I enjoyed giving on Keynote, of the music that I like nestled in iTunes, and of my family’s pictures on iPhoto. It makes me think of the hundred or so books I read in the past two years from my iPad’s screen, or the day my father got me an iPod in 2003 as a highschool graduation gift and I was ecstatic.

That’s true brand power, isn’t it?

Is the Rainbow Coming Back?

At the end of last week’s iPad 3/Apple TV event announcement, Apple CEO Tim Cook strolled off stage while a colorful version of the company logo appeared on the screen. It looked like an updated version of the Apple logo that was used from 1976 to 1998.

Ta da! The rainbow. 

People on the Internet are speculating that it’s the soon-to-be new Apple logo, as the current monochrome Apple logo came into view just as Apple founder Steve Jobs took back the reigns of the company. A new logo may be in order now that Cook is in the captain’s seat for a whole new era of Apple.

And here I sit  – a person who loves change, a person who loves the vintage Apple logo, a person who loves rainbows – and hope it isn’t the case. That’s just too much tie-dye for me. 

I love the original Apple logo with it’s beautiful lines of color, but I don’t think I’ll ever love this one. 

What do you think?

The beauty of these is gonna make me cry. They’re from a special feature in French culinary magazine Fricote, where French food designer Emilie De Griottes developed dessert tarts that recreate pantone colour swatches.

Via DesignBoom.

Why the below is fascinating:
1. The move from disgustingly-sweet looking Betty in 1927 to could-be-businesswoman 1996 is a reflection of the status of women in (American) society.
2. The illustration style reflects what was trendy at different periods
3. The haircuts are awesome
4. The fact that Betty’s age seems to change according to the year provides interesting possible insight. Could it be that in 1969, at the peak of the sexual revolution, the marketers thought it was futile to advertise cake mix to young women and instead concentrated on their mothers? In 1986 though, when the world became more conservative, the lady is quite young.
5. The current image of Betty Crocker, according to the corporation, is actually a combination of 75 real-life women of diverse backgrounds and ages.
6. The fashion choices remain bleh at best all throughout, although the red is quite daring.