It seems that the old funkyou.ro website has some new owners and its making a comeback.

Funk You is a platform for experimental graphic design and will be the first magazine of its kind in Eastern Europe. Our aim is to present designers with the opportunity to express themselves without the constraints of a usual designer-client relationship.
Funk You stands for experiments and developing new ideas. Everything is possible and we want to encourage people to try a new way of thinking and creating. Funk You will feature both Romanian and international designers.

The guys at Citrus Design, with Stefan Lucut as an Art Director, are releasing through this new platform a quarterly magazine featuring artists and projects, the Funk You website and forum, a new website - minimalexperimental.com - that will organize monthly graphic design exhibitions, then some workshops and presentations organized three or four times a year.

I'll wait to see what the guys have prepared for us, but for now, all this looks very promising. Nice going guys!

We all know the fact that videos on Youtube have bad quality because of high compression and most of them look awful.

Some of the videos on youtube are high quality actually, only they are displayed as a high-compression-low-quality version.

But what if we can see most of them in high quality and really enjoy the details in each video?

Try adding to the url of each video - in the address bar of your browser - this little string: &fmt=18 and see what happens.

It's that easy!

Am participat, a fost interesant, organizarea foarte buna si cei de la Landor foarte deschisi.

Cel mai mult mi-a placut prezentarea lui Alexander Schonfeld, C.D. in cadrul Landor Hamburg, care a discutat despre simboluri, simbolistica si gesturi in branding, o prezentare interesanta si singura mai interactiva, deoarece a implicat si publicul intr-o masura.

Lori Rosenwasser, Director Global pe Brand Engagement Landor, a prezentat cateva studii de caz din S.U.A. pe acest domeniu si a vorbit despre cum brandurile de succes pornesc de la oameni, oferind si cateva sfaturi utile despre brand engagement.

Andrew Welch a tinut o prezentare despre rolul unui Chief Brand Officer in cadrul unei companii, iar Florian Langhammer a vorbit mult si bine despre noile trenduri in comunicare si impactul acestora asupra brandurilor.

Apoi a urmat si o sesiune de intrebari, unde eu personal l-am intrebat pe Alexander ce crede despre faptul ca T-mobile a inregistrat culoarea Magenta ca si culoare corporate pe piata de telecomunicatii, urmand o serie de raspunsuri din partea lui si a celorlalti pe aceasta tema.

Evenimentul a fost organizat de Seed Consultants, partenerii Landor in Romania incepand cu acest an.

Cei care au participat au primit si cartea Brand Simple - How the Best Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed, scrisa de Allen P. Adamson, Managing Directorul Landor, care la final a tinut o videoconferinta discutand despre aceasta carte.

Consider un succes conferinta si cu siguranta mai astept si altele din partea celor de la Seed, impreuna cu Landor.

It is now The Rather Difficult Slow Font Game, because you really have to wait to be taken to the next typeface everytime.

Anyways, this is a simple and nice little typographic game.
I scored 34 out of 34, winning...the 13th place in the Hall of Fame.

So, you take it for a spin.

Pentagram is pleased to announce the publication of the Black Book, a new 800-page overview of our recent work. The book is a compilation of over 400 projects from the last several years, arranged in alphabetical order, like a dictionary, and printed on Bible paper, like a Bible, complete with tabbed sections and ribbons for bookmarking. It covers pretty much everything we do, from architecture to graphics, buildings to websites, branding to signage, interiors, packaging, exhibitions, interfaces, furniture, products, brochures, magazines, and houses, all in simple picture-and-caption form.

See more images from the book on Pentagram's blog.

Some people ffffound to be a great resource for visual inspiration sharing, but you need to be invited first and invites are very precious and rare things.

But I love weheartit more.

ilovetypography is a website/blog dedicated to typography, featuring some fine articles and other handy typography resources. Go on, visit it. We can never know too much about typography, can we?