tumbly.

Fox! Nice update on the game-time infographics. Possession, quarter, remaining time, play: all in that left corner. And even the time-outs for each team.

Good on ya.

Chillout Sessions XII (Ministry of Sound Australia)

Play the video; nice serve, MSTRKRFT!

Dieter Rams - Gestalten (via kottke)

Some favorites.

Watching Chile v. Honduras—and being as new to futbol as I am—I didn’t know who was in which color, but look! ESPN’s got the kit colors next to the team name. Aw, so helpful. (The rusty-red of the chrome + the white text with these specific teams might be the best example, heh.)

Flickr’s at it again: a set carousel for browsing people’s favorites. Sweet!

There’s even a URL notation: in/faves-[username]/

freshkicks:

TheDieline.com: Package Design: Puma and Yves Behar’s new green packaging

After three years in the making, a new solution to the shoebox is announced- and it’s pretty sleek too!

“It’s hard to imagine something as simple as the shoebox being completely overhauled. But Puma and Fuseproject have done just that, in a design that will completely transform the brand’s supply chain—saving millions in electricity, fuel, and water.

Go read the rest.

How cool is that. Reduces cardboard use by 65%? Come on! How long until this is de rigeur? (Wondering whether it degrades gracefully for really big shoes.)

Screen Pass II: super details

Football season’s over (snif!), but I saw a couple details during the Super Bowl worth mentioning.

Previously, it drove me bonkers how CBS offers no indication of possession once a play is underway (there’s superimposed info on the field before a snap, but that’s it). Well, lookit, now! Okay, it’s a white dot that could be missed, but it’s definitely a start.

Item the second: I know I saw this once or twice during the season, but I think it’s only triggered by exceptionally long (time and distance) drives. But look at this!

Two kinds of arrows which make immediate sense. How many first downs? Oh, four. Which was the longest pla— oh, that second to last one. Which team are we tal— oh, there’s the Colts logo, okay, got it. Please do this sort of thing more, CBS! (Less Phil Simms and we can be best friends!)

Boarding Pass/Fail (via ISO50)

I dig the hell out of that initial design — apart from the choice of Titling Gotham for the main info in the center, even here on a big-ish monitor those numbers are more of a strain to read than they should be.

Thermal printing notwithstanding, how cool would it be to have a default boarding pass layout with branding as the differentiating factor? That would be sweet.

I really, really like the practical boarding pass redesign response. Aces! How do we get airlines to adopt it?

Having said that: the Virgin America boarding passes rule as they make excellent bookmarks. And! if you’re the sort who likes to read by sliding something down the page (raising my hand), they’re the perfect width for most paperbacks. (VA being my favorite airline, I’m obviously biased. (: )

D.I.Y. Gift box ornaments by Samantha Miller (via mandr) (via d*s)

Blah blah the holidays are past, but those? Are so cool! We will be trying that (with non-book paper first). Also: ribbon! Heh. (On top of which: that’s a nicely composed shot.)

USA from Pan Am’s Helvetica dreamtime (via ISO50)
(New Zealand is my other fave.)

A really nice bit of research that Duarte did to get to the bottom of these posters. I wonder how easily (or even whether) it could have been done by someone not already sort of in the mix in NYC; regardless: what a find. Ahead of their time, they were!

Screen Pass: How networks present the game

I love and watch a lot of football.

The season is 17 weeks + the playoffs and unless I’m traveling I watch all day Sunday, Monday night, and the odd Thursday or Saturday night game. As a result, I spend a lot of time with the graphics from each of the 5 networks currently broadcasting NFL games (CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, NFL Network).

None of them is perfect, but a couple are better than the rest with the NFL Network far far behind everyone. I give them (NFL Network) a break for 2 reasons:

they broadcast in HD, so at least unlike their first year it doesn’t feel like you’re watching a local high school game
they’re still very new to it, they’ll improve.

During a game, I want to know the following at a glance:

possession
the score
the quarter
remaining time

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (The Art of the Title Sequence)

The saying goes “don’t judge a book by its cover” but we can judge a movie by its title sequence, right?

“Six Feet Under” might be the first title sequence I noted, followed by “Carnivàle” which provided more discussion for JA and me than you’d have thought possible. Of course there’s a lot of attention paid to opening title sequences, now (“True Blood”, “Dexter”, etc.), but I think animated films (apart from Pixar’s) get short shrift.

(I also appreciate the title card-only: “LOST”, “Vampire Diaries”, etc.)

Nationalistic propaganda is terribly appropriate, too, when you’re talking Superman and Batman. (Plus! Tim Daly!)