Audi TT – beautiful, slick site. I like how they use the site map/flow chart as the primary navigation. Well done.

The United States Postal Service has a lot of things to fix with how it runs its operations. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s a place I loath to go to and try to avoid at all costs. Apparently they see things differently and feel it’s a priority to temporarily rebrand their site with a Star Wars theme.
Am I the only one that finds this to be severely retarded? For all you non-Americans out there, yes, we have our heads up our asses.

Grand Theft Auto IV – coming 10.17.07
Looks like we won’t have to settle for ‘Liberty City’ anymore, we’re getting the real NYC, complete with the MetLife – I mean, GetALife building. (thanks Bryan)

Nokia Nseries – this site with some great features integrated into Flash, including RSS feeds and a lot of attention to the details in the GUI.

As I was cleaning up around my old faithful G4, I decided to see if it needed a cleaning as well, turns out it did. Now that I’ve removed all the dust, I noticed it runs a lot quieter.

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The New Viral (via Big Spaceship Blog)
David Pogue – Apple TV Has Landed – first I have get my new plasma screen, then I have to get my Wii … then I gotta get my Apple TV.
Mike Davidson on MySpace and Virb – Virb definitely looks like a great alternative to MySpace, trouble is, I don’t use MySpace much as it is, and I’m not sure I’d have a need for Virb either.
Are Designers The Enemy Of Design? – I’ll answer that. No. And not all of us are arrogant. I have a big ego, but I also strive to create great work and have happy clients.
Is Palm up for sale? – Motorola buying Palm to give themselves an edge against Apple’s iPhone is like Sony buying Sega to give them an edge against the Nintendo Wii … which is to say it’s retarded. I love my Treo like I love the original Nintendo – the simple pixelated graphics make me nostalgic for a simplier time. As soon as something better than Nintendo came out, I upgraded. I plan on doing the same in June when I get my iPhone.

Crazy Eyes Dolphins Vs. Mad Cows – by the ever weird and talented Ian Stewart. If you’re located in Atlanta and need a talented animator, drop him a line!

Red Interactive Agency is awesome! Not awesome for the main content, which presented in a familiar agency format, but awesome for the avatar it creates for you at the bottom of the site that you can use to chat with other visitors as well as drag from left to right, and, well …. up. Try it. (found via k10k)

I’m a little late posting this but swfIR is a great step in the evolution of web design & development.
I find it funny that they don’t user sIFR for their text-as-image section headers. Maybe there’s a Javascript class incompatibility reason for this.

Monocle – great example of a magazine that gets the web. I wish Flaunt would get around to getting the web too, because their magazine is so damn good, I can only imagine them having an awesome website.
Monocle was brought to my attention by my co-worker Paula during our weekly design meeting. We all bring in and talk about something that has inspired us recently.
One thing that was pointed out about the current version of Monocle that I think is brilliant is the Rolex ad at the top right of the site, you might not even realize it’s an ad:

If only all advertising was as seamlessly integrated as that ad (On another note, Rolex has recently relaunched their site and its very nice, but I still don’t dig it as much as Movado).

Palm hires ex-Apple designer, puts iPhone in its sights (via Daring Fireball)

Even though Palm’s Ed Colligan may not like it, Apple did go and “just walk in” to the mobile phone space when it announced the iPhone last month

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Apple has been working on the iPhone for over 2 years. It seems to me that Palm has “just walked into” the iPhone market. Palm has hired a brilliant ex-Apple employee to help them.
Palm – this won’t work, trust me.
This whole thing Palm is doing reminds me of the kid who gets his dad to do his 3-month science project for him the weekend before it’s due. Palm can buy innovative people, but they can’t buy innovation. As my friend Jory said, innovation has to be woven into the whole methodology of the company you’re working for.
This was also written about on the NY Times.

eon at Lindbergh
Awesome grid. By who else? G94.

Updates to this site have slowed a bit since I’ve start working at Schematic as an art director. It’s a good feeling to be busy with creative work!
Each day I’m meeting more and more talented people. I’ve already found out our Senior Software Developer, Roger Braunstein, wrote the new Introduction to Flex 2 book. Along with that another one of our head developers writes the Flash ‘Bible’ series.
I’m sure there’s many more Schematic achievements that I’ll discover the longer I’m here…