Those of use who might be (or might not be) looking forward to Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the next Batman, it might be a good time to look back on the past 75 years to see exactly how the Dark Knight has been portrayed … at least in logo form.
From FastCoDesign: Designed by Cathryn Laver from Calm the Ham, the graphic traces the evolution of the Batman logo from its earliest iterations in the comics of the 1940s through its use in Adam West’s delightfully campy TV take in the ’60s, Frank Miller’s dark graphic novels in the ’80s, and George Clooney and his nipple suit in the ’90s, and ends with the multimillion-dollar Dark Knight films today. The genus is always quite clearly bat, but unique species abound.
Robot USB collectibles drive money and awareness for natural disaster relief.
Incubot Productions, the company behind such nostalgia-inspiring retro robot collectibles as Voltron and Nekobots, has created a line of robots-turned-USB-drives to raise money and continue to raise awareness of the tsunami and earthquake that devastated Japan.
According to their website: “The tsunami and earthquake have faded from the headlines, but the need for aid is still real.”
I love to cook. One of my TV FoodNetwork favorites is Alton Brown. On his show Good Eats he continually waxes poetic against the purchasing of “unitaskers,” kitchen implements that serve only one purpose. To that end I have yet to buy a mango peeler or a banana-shaped banana box from Williams Sonoma, although I have been tempted.
It is no wonder that I am enamored both visually and functionally with Corel Tools, the four-pronged multi-tasker everyone man of the house should own.
According to Mashable: “The age-old screwdriver has met its match with this design concept called Coral Tools. The multicolored multi-tools look like tripods, but each leg is actually a cover that conceals a flat head screwdriver, a Phillips-head screwdriver, a nail-steadying device to hold a nail while you hammer it (instead of hammering your thumb), and a corkscrew with which to reward yourself after a job well done.”
“In addition to its quad-gadget coolness, when you’re using one of the tools, its other three legs make themselves useful by giving you much-needed leverage, offering additional torque for screwdrivers and corkscrew.”
“This is precisely what good industrial design is supposed to do: improve usability with an aesthetic flair. Coral Tools takes an ordinary screwdriver and makes it easier to use and more versatile.”
“Created by Jinyoung Studio, a Korean design shop led by Jinyoung Choi with designers Junpyo Kim, Hyungwoo Uhm, Joonhyoung Seo and Kijo Son, Coral Tools might be a welcome sight for those who’ve nursed a black-and-blue thumb back to health, or suffered from sore wrists after struggling with old-fashioned screwdrivers. We hope this idea might show up in a hardware store in the real world sometime soon.”
