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Pantone Credit Cards

Debuting in Spring 2011, color authority Pantone will release their own Visa® Platinum Rewards Card in a range of hues that have been selected from the Pantone Fashion Color Report for Spring 2011. Each of the five cards is meant to invoke and express certain moods and attributes: PANTONE 14-0941 TPX Beeswax Warm, Sincere, Generous PANTONE 16-1452 TPX Firecracker Cheerful, Dynamic, Tuned In PANTONE 15-3817 TPX Lavender Insightful, Intuitive, Spiritual PANTONE 18-4039 TPX Regatta Trustworthy, Noble, Generous PANTONE 15-4825 TPX Blue Curacao Sensuous, Tender, Inviting As far as I can tell, these cards do not offer any benefits that are especially superior than that of your run-of-the-mill credit card. Thus I can only conclude that not too many consumers aside from fans of the color superhouse will be tempted to apply for...

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Lego Mega Man

Graphic artist Raphael Phillips has combined the beloved Mega Man with my favorite childhood toy: Lego. The imagining of these two fantastically geeky worlds can be seen over at The 8-bit Cubist, where Phillips not only depicts the original Mega Man particularly well (and instantly recognizable), Mega Man's various powers are also beautifully rendered. I would definitely be tempted to pick up the set if it were to exist in real life. What about you?           Via Kotaku. ...

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Captcha Advertisements: Brilliantly Evil

I hate Captcha systems and find them extremely irritating. It's not only the act of having to type out the characters on screen, but the fact that deciphering some Captcha systems can be immensely difficult makes me feel less of a human somehow. (Because you know, the whole point of having Captcha systems in place is to weed out the bots.) Enter Solve Media, a start-up based in New York. Solve has decided that Capcha systems are not annoying enough on their own — they must be supplemented by another major annoyance of the web: online ads. As Solve sees it, their new Captcha advertisements will not only benefit advertisers by forcing visitors to look at — and comprehend — the ad, but will...

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