Monthly Archives: Juni 2013

The Fisher Model 400 FM Stereo Receiver

The Fisher Model 400 Stereo Receiver (1965)

Das waren noch Zeiten als „Fisher“ noch „The Fisher“ war. Die Anfangszeiten des Hifi, damals allenfalls vergleichbar mit heutigem High-End. Was diese Geräte auszeichnete war und ist „Langlebigkeit“. Ich trenne mich nur schwer von dem The Fischer Model 400 FM Stereo Receiver – und wenn dann auch nur im Verbund mit den passenden Boxen (ebenfalls The Fisher Model XP-6). Zustand des Receivers:
Betriebsbereit, der hat neue Röhren für den rechten Kanal bekommen vor, jedenfalls irgendwann vor 10 Jahren. Seitdem ist das Gerät nicht mehr gelaufen, und gelagert worden. Ein Jammer, denn eigentlich sollte es spielen…

Surf & Style am Flughafen München powered by Lufthansa

Surf & Style am Flughafen München - Veranstaltungsbild

Es ist wieder soweit. Surf & Style am Flughafen München powered by Lufthansa geht in die mittlerweile 3. Runde! Vom 31. Juli bis 25. August findet das absolute Highlight des Flughafen München wieder im Munich Airport Center (MAC) statt. Selbstredend, dass das die weltweit größte stehende Welle an einem Airport ist…

iOS 7 GUI by Teehan+Lax

iOS 7 Beta psd file by theehan+lax
Teehan+Lax. You probably know these guys? If not, it’s about time when you’re in app design. They’ve provided the worldwide app community with excellent templates to, well, design apps. They’re fast, sometimes blazingly fast in helping us out. Apple just announced and showcased the new iOS 7 and Teehan+Lax is delivering. Unbelievable. You can argue about the looks of iOS 7, you can love it, hate it or be just indifferent. Fact is, you will have to deal with it very fast to bring your apps to the new level, so that when iOS 7 is delivered into the public you’re ready. Or how Entropy puts it: START UPDATING YOUR APPS FOR IOS 7. NOW. In the past, Teehan+Lax were amongst the quickest. They provided the community with templates to all important iOS revisions, very precisely crafted and very intelligent arranged. You can even say, they’re legendary. Even for Android and web developers there is a section with Photoshop templates.

iOS 7...

Before and after photoshop

Before and after photoshop
Working in advertising means that photoshopping is every day business. And nobody thinks about before and after photoshop any more, when it has to do with products, composings and so on. Well, the Hollywood industry is quite similar to that. Difference is, that people are the products. Actors and actresses, singers, artists. Due to the advertising industry, that is driven by superficial thinking, those "products" have to be presented in the best way possible. Enter photoshop. Some 30 years ago, I bought a lexicon on comic books. It was a German book by Wolfgang J. Fuchs and Reinhold Reitberger. In that "Comic Handbuch" there was a very interesting foreword. There were three pictures. A John Buscema drawing of Conan (Savage Sword of Conan) the Barbarian and a drawing by John Byrne of Red Sonja. In the middle was some space for a passport photo. Those guys wanted you to paste a photograph of yourself in that space. To demonstrate the difference of...

Steve Jobs on design

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” We should never forget that differentiation. It’s essential for our work....
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