“Learn something everyday” is an interesting project from a graphic design studio in UK. They release everyday a picture of “lesser know facts” that nevertheless are maybe good knowing about – or just fun to think about. Everyone is invited to submit own “lesser know facts” to the site. The best work of each month will be released a poster and can be purchased.

Found this nice video about graphic-designer Milton Glaser. Nice and inspiring to see. A little bit of art and graphic-design wisdom, always good to bring it back into mind. In short: be amazed and learn, learn, learn. (via) (via)

Serein-logo old

Serein-logo new

We remember: Serein searched for designers, in order to give the label a new spin into a new direction. Now they are there and finished. And I do not know what to say about the results. First: The logo is much more readable. That’s a good point, because the old logo could be confused with “Boroin” or something like that. So thumbs up for better communication.

The relaunch of the website somehow looks a little bloodless for me. Sorry, but I have to say so. A little bit like preset-skin-action over a wordpress, but maybe there will be coming more. It is decent, yes. But, hm. Well. Clear, but fast to forget. Let’s wait for the future. It seems that they are also planning some business-modelling, also combined with community-driven stuff. Or how would you interpret this line?

We will no longer offer all our music for free download, but for those willing to invest some time in the project, free downloads and other assorted good-stuff will become available over time.

Anyway, they announced a new EP from Nest, and this are extremely good news! The first EP from Nest was simply the best piece of netmusic ever released! Read more about the future of the label here.

I just found this one, looks pretty nice: Morph by Skylined. It’s an ASCII-animation in the browser, using JavaScript to animate the contents. On that occasion I found some interesting things on that site. For example this cracktro-remakes in Flash. Ready to watch in the browser, too! Uh, holy… There is a complete site dedicated to Flashtros! Flashtro.com.

Did you already heard of Kickstarter.com? This is still a fresh project. There you will be able to suggest a project and ask for “community-driven-funding”. If enough people are willing to spend money on your project, you get the money and have to realise the project. Can be easy as that.

The guys from Crystal Labs now reached the funding goal of 1.500 dollar for their game “High Strangeness“. It will be a “12bit action / adventure video game” and the project looks very promising. Crystal Labs is run by the same people, who make the STFUAJPGM-podcast. The music will come from chipmusic-wonderkid Disasterpeace. Head over to this blogentry, there are three of the music-pieces available, that will go into the game-production.

What should I say? Lego-animation and extremely uplifting chip-sounds. I suppose this is not an animations, but pure Lego-work. The YouTube liner-notes go: “1500 hours of moving legobricks and take photos of them.” Hard work, hard fun to look at. Made by Rymdreglage (via)

I spotted an interesting article about the history of some of the biggest or most famous game-companies in the world like Capcom, Ubisoft or id Software. The article focuses on concise facts, that set the course for amazing developments, that lead to some of the best and most important games and therefore changed the world. Maybe call it fate. A compact history of the game-market. Worth reading!