The Hotlist – Edition 2
It’s that time again: Friday. This week has been an interesting week. With some heavy hitters being ‘fresh’ into the world and some other just plain awesomeness.
NEWS
Mac Appstore Launches
You guessed it. The MacApp Store put it all under one roof. Now, you can buy, install, update apps all from one little place in the mac. If you don’t have a mac the iTunes 10 icon everyone complained about is the same for the Mac App Store Icon except it’s replaced with the nice little app symbol. Did we also mention Angry Birds can now be played on your mac? As if we didn’t need more distractions…
MUSIC
Tron Legacy Soundtrack – Daft Punk
It’s not ‘new’ as Tron has been out for several weeks. However, this album has some of the best beats and rhythms to design and create to it’s definitely worth a look for people looking to get in the zone and crank out some work.
WEB SERVICE / APP
Twitter / Tweetie 2 for Mac Available
There once was a little app that was beloved by mac users. It was clean, simple and it worked. Then the creator Loren made Tweetie for iPhone one some awards created Tweetie 2 for iPhone and then went to work with Twitter. The app is now Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for iPad and the rest is history. Twitter / Tweetie 2 for mac was like a rainbow unicorn, that is until this week. Now, it’s here. Fanboys rejoice.
WORKSPACE
OfficePod
It’s an office! It’s a pod! It’s an OfficePod! Whatever it is, it works. This is a slick office setup for the home office or (you could get creative) and make some slick cubicles. Their efficient and have some pretty neat features. I wonder if they need someone to do a quality control check, if so, we’ll give them our address.
TYPE
Ratatan Font by Giuseppe Salerno
A new font that is extremely light weight and elegant. The site also has a great little flipbook that showcases it in various ‘examples’.
FOLIO
GaksDesigns
Gerrel Saunders has some amazing illustration skills… Enough to make a normal person jealous. Checkout some of his slick new work on his folio site.
LOGO
Starbucks Logo Evolution
There comes a day for some brands when you cross into the big leagues and you’re a powerhouse brand you can just rely on a mark for people to understand who and what you are. Who else has trod this path? Apple, Nike, McDonalds, Shell just to name a few. Starbucks joins the ranks of these other prodigious brands and updates their siren and drops the text. Interestingly enough, the CEO Donald Shultz explains the evolution and states that “it gives them a chance to think beyond coffee”. What will the branch into next?
Supporting Stories:
Starbucks Logo Evolution – Logo Design Love
Starbucks Reveals New Logo – IDSGN
A Quick Word about the Starbucks Logo – Ask Spike
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Really like that font! The site is great too.
And I’m with you on the TRON soundtrack, it’s seriously awesome and definitely good for creating to and for getting work done. What more can you ask for in an album?
Not much more! More tracks is all I could think of but, it works as is for sure!!
Many thanks for including my post in the list. It’s amazing the attention the Starbucks logo change has garnered – both for and against the change.
It is. I’m amazed at how much noise dropping the type has made more-so than updating the siren. They’re big enough to do it… Why not do it.
The TRON soundtrack rocks, except for the fact that it makes me drive too fast. Its also been my “get stuff done” soundtrack for the past two weeks.
OfficePod: makes me think mobile, like this could be a business-class travel pod on a train, plane, or boat.
Hmm, the travel pod would be awesome! Would be cool to rent on a train (boat) for 8hrs a day, be ‘mobile’ and then come home everynight.