Happy Monday! I know I find all sorts of strange stuff on the internet all the time, but this is just strange, and interesting. Remember dissecting a frog in biology class in high school? Erik Boker does the same thing with toothpaste, and then photographs it. Shows product design from a different perspective.

Long, but funny and more bonus items!

via swissmiss

I listen to pandora at work and they have some…well…interesting ads from time to time. This one is priceless…and kinda gross:

Available in round and square - Divad was made by David Carvalho using Fontstruct. Download here.

One of the great things about the design community is the feedback and critique you can get - You just have to know where.

Live Journal - Graphic Design Community

http://community.livejournal.com/graphicdesign/

This site is a great community of graphic designers from all sorts of backgrounds. Some students, some professionals, freelancers. Great place for feedback, and a great resource if you have design related questions. Also a great archive of commonly asked questions like how much to charge, or how to set up files for printing.

Freelance Switch Forums

http://forums.freelanceswitch.com/

Freelance Switch Forums have been helpful to me with design crits as well. Lots of web and print based freelancers that are online during the day to offer advice on anything design or freelance related. Also  a great way to connect with other freelancers.

Fluther

http://www.fluther.com/

Fluthers purpose it to “tap the collective” knowledge base. You can ask any kind of question here - but I recently posted a question asking for critique on a design and got some decent responses within the same day. It’s worth a try!

Any suggestions for other places to get your designs critiqued?

Theme Forest (run by  the Envato family of sites) is a marketplace for buying and selling website templates and CMS themes for all sorts of products, like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. I’ve got three $25 credit vouchers to give away.

So if you want try out some Theme Forest templates leave a comment by sept 9th and ill randomly select 3 winners! woo!

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Ok, so I’m a little bit peeved that I can’t try out google chrome. I’m not alone in my anger. There are millions of mac users out there that read about the news…went to the website and saw the “sorry only for windoze right now”. Thats just a lame excuse! When you release something as major as a browser you need to make it cross platform right away.

Do We Need Another Web Browser?

I know that competition isnt a bad thing, but isnt this just one more way to further piss off web developers and desigers? Will we have to make fixes for this browser to attend to its quirks? I’m also worred that it might take away from the FF userbase more than the IE userbase. Anyways…What are your thoughts on Google Chrome (which is kind of a stupid name for a browser anyway ha ha) ?

Theres also an interesting discussion going on over at Freelance Switch Forums about this very topic.

Also, an interesting post on Google’s EULA and how it sucks, or rather is being fixed.

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SVA thesis project by Joshua Hester. You’ll Be Fine is a website featuring health topics on sex, drugs and video games aimed at young adults freshly out of college up to their mid-thirties.

This is probably old news but i still find it amusing. I’m a t-shirt addict so I dress pretty much like the mac guy.