Here’s a great collection of various aircraft livery designs, appropriately categorised as Airplane porn.

Talk about desperation. LG obviously had to really go low this time to get noticed. What is the message here? LG - the phone for peeping toms?

Yet another example of “ground breaking creativity” by some ad agency no doubt.

Fail.

Here is an example of a design solution to a non-problem:

It is an electronic version of the white stick used by the blind. It senses obstacles and provides feedback to the user through buzzing.

It is a worthy exploration of an idea for sure. But is it viable? Is it really an improvement over the existing solution? The comments on Gizmodo (where I spotted …

Does anyone know how much power the big backlit apple logo on MacBooks chew up?

Is it the tech equivalent of wearing a t-shirt with Armani Exchange or some other brand name printed big cross it?

What is the psychology behind this desire to overtly broadcast your association with a brand name?

(I for one will never buy something with a big logo on it. I only wear t-shirts with logos …

The HP ScanJet N8420 document scanner (below right) reminded me of the original DeskJet 500 (below left).

It is always nice to see the development of a design language over time, when a new thing echoes and builds upon conversations started from a while back.

As a bonus, Google turned up this little beauty - the DeskJet 310.

These are just some of the many book cover designs for H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds over the last century. See the growing collection at The War of the Worlds Book Cover Collection.

Spotted on Core77 Design Blog.

When I saw this my immediate thought was - why are they showing a broken truss on the box?

Maybe it’s just me…

My friend Natalie Shell has mentioned these people a few times over the years: http://www.the-hub.net/.

“Social innovation” - I really like the sound of that. It appears to be a set of spaces set up around the world to enable those with socially progressive thoughts to get together and make things happen. Go positive change!

The website, however, is a disappointment. There are pretty pictures but …

A nice piece on design, seeing, opportunities and creative thinking: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/43

I thought the SingTel free wireless login page was broken today. When I try to click on the password field to enter my password, the mouse pointer turned into an arrow and I got taken to a different page.

I was just about to give up when I realised that I had previously enlarged the text display on the browser. This has actually caused the link …