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Election Day-inspired logos

November 11th, 2008  |  by Mykl Roventine  |  published in observed, web design

Inspired by Mashable’s round-up of Halloween-flavored logos, I’ve collected some interesting examples of website logos inspired by the US election last week. Here are some of my favorites:

Yahoo - Added a vote button and turned theirs into a poll.

Cafemom - had a nice button standing in for their O.

Boston.com - also choose a Vote button.

Historic Homepages

November 6th, 2008  |  by Mykl Roventine  |  published in events, observed, web design

When I saw this tweet last night, after chuckling at the HTML joke, I started thinking about all the folks who’d be stocking up on paper copies of newspapers today. That lead to some surfing of major news sites and, ultimately, to the collection below of post-election screenshots from around the web. Thanks to Kristofer [...]

I told you I was working on a solution to the economic crisis

October 6th, 2008  |  by Mykl Roventine  |  published in observed

Recently, I suspended my blog to tackle the economic crisis. Apparently I’m making progress.
To distract from the dearth of depressing financial news today, The Consumerist kindly suggested readers cheer up by checking out my 2007 State Fair set on Flickr. Check out this placement!

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