Sennheiser’s Eco-Friendly Packaging

The Dieline posted this yesterday (Looks like they found it from the Design Muse) and I had to share with all of you as well. It just goes to show that eco-friendly packaging can also be beautiful. From Design Muse: The packaging is made from cardboard and is 100% recyclable – no nasty plastic clam shell to clog up land fills. Nice work all around. More Images after the jump

Defaced Dollars

Money is awesome, money as an art form is even more awesome. I found this flickr pool this morning and I knew I had to share. Full pool here. The posted 20 is dedicated to my friend Scot who oddly is a big fan of not just Andrew Jackson but also KISS.

ILT on Choosing Type

I love Typography. Sadly typography is often overlooked by students of design. If there is one thing to really make a designer stand out it’s subtle, professional, and unique uses of type. I love Typography is a great blog, and they made a great post on choosing type. John does a great job explaining everything from choosing san or san serif fonts, to remembering to honor the content, to remembering to read the content. It’s a great post and even if you are a typography expert it’s always nice to get a refresher, so go read it.

Photography of Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley’s website is making the blog rounds as we speak and I can’t pass up the chance to recommend the truly amazing collection of images on his website. Amazing color, movement, freedom and expression. It’s rare in this society that is so saturated by images (especially photographs) that you see something that makes you stop in your tracks and reminds you truly of the beauty of humanity. I find the spirit of these photos to be incredibly invigorating and hauntingly beautiful.

April Fools – Official Holiday of the Internet

It strikes me as amusing that the big holiday on the internet is April Fools’ Day. Seems every decent sized site pulls out all the stops offering fake information, redirecting folk to funny pages, fake news articles declare Onion level absurdity, and so on. April Fools’ Day is everywhere. Below is a list of some of the pranks I have found – we will continue to update this post throughout the day as we find these gems, for now enjoy the following:

Google’s Virgle – A Virgin and Google mission to Mars.

New Xbox 360 First Look – Wooden game system, virtual helmet, Xbox Live board game, they’ll scroll through at the bottom.

YouTube Rickrolls You – Click on ay of the featured videos.

Google Calendar – My buddy Ted tells me, “Haha, my Google Calendar has an “I’m feeling lucky” button. I clicked it and it added an event called “Date with Matt Damon” for 7pm tonight.”

Lord of the Rings Online’s Battle for Amon Hen – New game content featuring chickens.

Wizards of the Coast – “New” website launched.

Wikipedia – Featured Article on Ima Hogg.

Typophile – “New” website launched.

Stuff White People Like – Purchased by Target as a marketing tool. LOL.

Google TiSP – Google commode-based TiSP.

Zelda Movie – IGN “leaks” the “official trailer” online.

PC World – The beginning of the Save DOS campaign.

Helvetica Serif – Released today!

Here’s the top 100 April Fools’ Day pranks of all time from the Museum of Hoaxes.