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Blogs for Game Design Students

And as long as we’re at the lists for game design students, this one might come in handy as well: A list of 20 game design blogs that students will love:

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Comic Sans Rants

Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

Comic Sans in rant mode. And boy, does that font have something to rant about. Found via Marie Claude Bernard.

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Too Expensive to Develop?

John Lanchester argues in this essay that the production of games has become so expensive, the democratic effect is vanishing – quite in contrast to the rest of media, where the internet made it simpler and cheaper to produce for.

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More Wallpaper!

Just saw Lucky Number Slevin. And how cool can a film be – it's just one big 70s-Style-a-Palooza! (Oh, and there's quite a fair share of Josh Hartnett in there too. Hehe.)

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We Love Frutiger

Now SR DRS has to give itself a new logo too, and OMG are they creative!Look!... – and now please someone tell me why I'm all of a sudden getting so sleepy and about to doze off …Honestly.... Those designers are not even able to emulate the world-renowned Swiss Graphic Design, let alone quote it.

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Bike Messengers as Style Icons

Today's essential question: Is [habi][3] a style icon? ;-) "Nowadays, everybody wants to look like a messenger," says the Brooklyn transplant, with her short red dreads poking out from under a camouflage cap.

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Living in an Imperfect World

Sometimes, I really feel stupid when I start bitching around about some stupidLike said, I didn't think I was stupid, but for a moment there I thought, maybe I am. But the fact that this has happened twice, and I have whitnessed the confusion with other passengers today, I conclude that it is the design of the station, not people's stupidity, that has caused me to miss my train.Although initially I didn't think the overall architecture of the station was bad, my admiration soured over time. I saw some pictures of some of the proposed alternatives, and now I always look at what was built and think of what it could have been.

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Manga

OMG! Manga wird Mainstream. Und wie. Jetzt hat sogar Garnier den Trend entdeckt – und vor allem die Frisuren, die ja meist weniger aus stilistischen Gründen als vielmehr aus zeichenökonomischen Gründen ziemlich spitzig und kompakt aussehen.

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OmniOutliner 3 Ersatz-Icons

Mike Matas – blutjunger Designer mit einem wahren Gespür für «Mac-Likeness» hat Ersatz-Icons für OmniOutliner gestaltet.

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Accessoire

«Duu, Schatz?» – «Ja, Liebling?» – «Ich wünsch’ mir zum Valentinstag ein Accessoire zu meinem iPod …» – «Sooo … ?»

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