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Bowling Design: Über nerdy?

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Bowling score screens, boring design right? Well someone has to do it even though it isn’t really that glamourous, it’s one hell of a challenge.

I couldn’t help but realize just how functional and practical it all is, and just how many variations are out there!

It’s always challenging designing something that is functional for the general public.

Check out this large collection of bowling score screens i’ve discovered.
Click the image below to see the full collection.

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How much airbrushing is too much?

Monday, October 19th, 2009

air-brushing

Recently, I have seen I a lot of news about a Ralph Lauren model who was airbrushed to look reeeeeally skinny and then fired for being fat.

As a result, there has been a lot (more) of talk lately about this topic and thus some French legislators are pursuing the idea that all digitally enhanced photos should carry warning labels saying that they just that.

Now nobody needs to be told that the photo above is altered, but there are definitely too many cases where you can be mislead believing you’re looking at a “real” image. Now, there’s nothing wrong with altering images and creating interesting illusions, but it’s gone a little too far with human portrayal. N’est pas?

Read Ralph Lauren article
Read warning label article