scatterpig

I got this item listing does not exist page last night after following an incorrect link – I don’t know if etsy is updating their error messages, but I haven’t seen this before. It’s so cute! Very sweet :)

Another rainbow find to join the rainbow cake, and rainbow house.

I’ve added another content category of Rainbow, but the rule is that I can’t add anything to the rainbow category if I’ve deliberately gone searching for something, it’s only accidental rainbow finds :)

Helveticons

Really nice ones too! You see so many tacky, ugly or incomplete/un-uniform* icon and interface icon sets out there. I really like these, clear and representative, well drawn and consistent stylistically across the packages. I love that they’re based on the structure and appearance of Helvetica. Beautiful icons (& fonts for that matter) make me happy which is pretty sad I guess :-)

I found myself in an argument once that lasted a couple of weeks back & forth about what constitutes an icon vs a symbol – to me these are icons because even though their meaning has to be learned they look like what they might be representing, they look like a real object. The other person believed that because the meaning of images like these aren’t universally known representations of anything overruled that they looked like ‘things’ and would make them symbols.

Pointless argument? Probably :-) but still interesting and I’d love to get a real experts opinion on this.

*what’s the correct word for not uniform?

New Years Resolutions VIA

I’ve been thinking for some time of ditching Safari in favour of Google Chrome and this video has me wanting to do it now. Besides being a fun promo, the fact that in Chrome a crashed tab wont crash the whole browser and google’s claims of faster speeds had me downloading and installing.

I’ve always really liked Safari but after a few days (I don’t shut down my laptop & often have multiple tabs left open, the same ones for days at a stretch) it’s seems to clog up almost, grinds to a halt and becomes maddeningly slow taking up to a minute to open a new tab. I don’t want to change the way I work, so on to Chrome.

Watch the whole video, it’s pretty cool :)