Dave Caolo

Great gallery of vintage computer ads.

A hit during awards season.

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I dislike coffee but I’d order some just to handle one of these cups. Beautiful. By Mint.

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Triple birthday score. Love it.

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A lovely collection of tidy, minimal websites. Love it.

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Smashing Magazine wails on beer and alcohol sites, from the useless age verification screens (anyone capable of subtraction can get past one) to the outdated splash animations.

“To put it quite bluntly, the designers and developers in the beer and alcohol website industry should be ashamed of themselves for creating such horrendous user experiences.”

It goes on from there.

Creative Room is holding a modern gingerbread house design contest. Local architects have been asked to do their best. Proceeds will benefit Architecture for Humanity. My vote goes for the one above.

Sr. Dolores often told us kids to “… put your thinking caps on.” This is very close to what I always imagined.

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Google has re-designed their home page so that all elements other than the search box, logo and buttons are hidden until you mouse over the page. Most of the time you’ll simply enter your search term(s), hit return and browse the results while the unnecessary elements remained hidden. Nicely done, Google.

Pre-rollover

Post-rollover

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