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November 3, 2011
12:30 • 1 year ago
Tags: illustration new york times brilliance nyt david cameron obama simplicity good design
This is why the NYT is worth the subscription: Laser-focus. This illustration probably only took half an hour to do, and most of that went into the cutouts, but that story and that headline mesh together perfectly. This is what good illustrators do. They find the heart of a story and pump some life into it.

This is why the NYT is worth the subscription: Laser-focus. This illustration probably only took half an hour to do, and most of that went into the cutouts, but that story and that headline mesh together perfectly. This is what good illustrators do. They find the heart of a story and pump some life into it.

January 31, 2011
20:31 • 2 years ago

Speak2Tweet: Google makes Egypt’s sucky day less sucky

Tags: brilliance cairo egypt google protests saynow speaktotweet twitter

  • lame Egypt has shut down Noor, the last ISP standing in the country, leaving the country completely, utterly offline. Great work.
  • lame Egypt also plans to shut down the country’s mobile phone systems ahead of the planned “March of Millions” tomorrow. Very lame.
  • brilliant Google just bought a startup, SayNow, which made @Speak2Tweet, a Twitter account to get Egyptians’ voices on Twitter – via phone. source

» And if anyone needs it: If you dial the phone numbers +16504194196, +390662207294 or +97316199855, you can leave a message for the people of Twitter, who are totally with you, even if some topic related to Justin Bieber is trending. Check out @Speak2Tweet for more.

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