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posted October 5, 2017 #

It's only Wednesday?

Evolving Dropbox

posted October 5, 2017 #

I spoke about this a little on Twitter but Dropbox recently revealed a rather massive new look. The brand overhaul includes a wildly ambitious color scheme, a refined brand mark and a family of typefaces (that's right, not one typeface, they got the whole family). The overall art direction is very... artistic! Lots of fine art styles and illustrations in the marketing to help set them apart.

Dropbox's primary functionality isn't very sleek to talk about - sync your files and/or share files to just about anyone. Punching that up and focusing on all of the creative materials that go into a Dropbox is a wise move. It's not a far cry from Mailchimp - a fairly boring base functionality but an extremely fun and interesting marketing campaign.

I've seen some dissent around people think it looks ugly or is a weird move for the company but I think it's a great idea. It also has had zero effect on the actual application (they haven't even updated the logo) and I doubt it will. Huge congrats to Aaron Robbs and Nicholas Jitkoff for the fine work.

posted October 5, 2017 #

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus or Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium??

posted October 4, 2017 #

@vanityset the Trackless cassette just got delivered and my 4 year old asked “Is this music? Like Starlord?” He’s had the walkman all night.

posted October 4, 2017 #

Very happy to see that no new atrocities happened during the two hours I was Offline

posted October 4, 2017 #

Google's just-announced wireless Pixel earbuds do real-time translation in 40 languages. The Babel Fish is real. https://t.co/OchpXPoj4i

posted October 4, 2017 #

Here's a kitten dressed as a bat to brighten up your day https://t.co/9ss4mYgFQG

posted October 4, 2017 #

watching twitter employees realize how bad twitter is is like the scene from 2001 where the apes learn how to use t… https://t.co/68oZhZdWKe

posted October 4, 2017 #

Optimism without works is meaningless, but what drives works if not the belief that we can and will make things better?

We Own This Town: Volume 94

posted October 4, 2017 #

As promised, this edition of the podcast is a companion piece to Volume 93 that catalogs the full Glossary discography of albums, from Southern by the Grace of Location to Long Live All Of Us. Each album is represented by two songs and it makes for nearly an hour of downright badass rock music. Glossary celebrates their 20th anniversary this Saturday, Oct. 7th, at the Mercy Lounge.

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Arrival: OST Promo

posted October 4, 2017 #

Alex Myung, director, writer and animator of the short film Arrival, was kind enough to put together this promo video for the upcoming Arrival soundtrack. Watch it!

If you haven't heard "1,000 MPH" yet, put that on repeat for a solid half hour and see how you feel. I'm going to bet on "refreshed."

Picture Disc pre-order available here.
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