Link Love: 10.30.08

October 30, 2008

1. Sea of Shoes offers a guide to buying vintage on Ebay. This post is worth checking out just to see some of their amazing finds!

2. Before you use that typeface on your project, find out its secret meaning here. My favorites are Didot: I am a French hooker and Helvetica Neue: I am a conformist!

3. Thanks to a link via Gala a few weeks ago, I am totally hooked on the music blog Pretty Much Amazing. It’s about quality over quantity and they get ahold of all the best of the moment dance-y tracks and remixes.

4. If you’re going out of business, it’s best to take the high road and write an explanation like this guy did. (Sidenote: I loved Rocket! Photographic evidence here.)

5. Would smoking still seem as cool if all of the cigarette packaging was plain white and unbranded?

6. Why would Steve Pavlina say goodbye to $100,000 in easy income every year? Find out his reasoning here.

7. If you’re in need of some inspiration, Smashing Magazine’s 50 Beautiful Blog Designs has what you’re looking for!

8. It’s finally been confirmed, red on women drives men wild!

11 Responses to Link Love: 10.30.08

1. Vicki says:

   Those blog designs came at the right time, I’m trying to redesign mine (well, come up with a design of my own instead of using a default wordpress theme) at the moment.

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2. Ashe Mischief says:

   Somehow, all of the cigarette packs are much more intriguing visually in their white boxes than the ones they currently have!

   And the article on the color red is incredibly intriguing… especially as it comes to competition, performance, and perception!

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3. dana says:

   Apparently my resume/identity system says I am the son of a stonecutter.

   Hee hee!

   My boyfriend is a sous chef at two (!) small restaurants, so reading that statement from the restaurant owner was really interesting.

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4. Luis (Pretty Much Amazing) says:

   Aww shux, thanks!

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5. Aiden Applegate says:

   They didn’t have the typeface to my favourite fonts. Times New Roman and Trebuchet MS.

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6. Helen says:

   Yet another reason to love and wear the colour red! Haha. I read somewhere also that red is a very good colour to wear to a job interview because you stand out (and possibly makes you look more sexually attractive!)

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7. rosie says:

   That typeface thing is hilarious… Coincidentally Didot is my CV font… I’m not so sure that’s the secret message I want to send to prospective employers! Hehehe )

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8. Marisol says:

   That music blog rocks!

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9. Nubby says:

   dana: The ‘son of a stonecutter’ is such a random thing to get from the way a typeface looks so I think that makes the set of observations even funnier!

   Luis: Your music blog is so consistently good it blows me away! So thank you!

   rosie: Haha! Oh well, I guess it depends on the job you’re applying for! But, Didot is so beautiful and classy no matter what.

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10. Nelly! says:

    Yipes! I am the devil! Arial. hehe!

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11. caitlin says:

    i have a couple packs of cigarettes i bought just because i liked the packaging. i dont smoke, but they are nice looking. if the packages ended up looking like that blogs photo i would probably buy them to add to my collection.

    Reply

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