the 2006 tag
LogoMaid: Simplebits Logo Ripoff
Last year in December, Dan Cederholm launched a new website design for his business and weblog, Simplebits, along with a brand new (and great looking) logo.
Now, LogoMaid is selling a logo bearing a striking similarity to Dan’s on their website for US$ 199,-. They even have the audacity to call the logo “restyling”. Read the discussion on Flickr or John Gruber’s post on the topic. Paul Viluda, the owner of LogoMaid, even accused Dan Cederholm of in turn ripping his own logo off from LogoMaid and threatened a lawsuit against SimpleBits.
Dan’s logo is not the first they ripped off. Panic’s Unison logo is among the stolen designs, as well as Apple’s logo (now removed). Hopefully this post helps spreading the word that LogoMaid consists only of dirty thieves!
Good luck, Dan!
Photography: World Press Photo 2006
The winning photo of the 50th annual World Press Photo Contest of 2006 has been submitted by US photographer Spencer Platt of Getty Images. It shows a group of young Lebanese girls driving through a neighborhood in South Beirut, devastated by Israeli bombings. The picture was taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes.
“It’s a picture you can keep looking at. It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos. This photograph makes you look beyond the obvious.”, says jury chair Michele McNally about the image.
My Year in Cities, 2006
Others did it already, and I also intend to make it a tradition. This is the list of cities i visited in 2006:
- Innsbruck, Austria (home)
- Vienna, Austria
- Salzburg, Austria
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Göteborg, Sweden
- Malmö, Sweden
- Trollhättan, Sweden
- Uppsala, Sweden
- Helsingborg, Sweden
- Mariestad, Sweden
- Ystad, Sweden
- Maratea, Italy
- Vipiteno, Italy
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
- Munich, Germany
- Frankfurt, Germany
