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Flyer/Exhibit Voucher for Lafays Clothing

By Manuel Martensen | Published: June 28, 2007

“Overnight Express Job” for Lafays Clothing. I am not so happy with it (we had to photograph the belts ourself — no pro job: lots of shadows and reflections, proper masking was impossible), but the client seems to be pleased — they needed it done by McFly, so wtf.

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Will the iPhone launch leak Leopard?

By Manuel Martensen | Published: June 20, 2007

They said that the iPhone will run on OS X. So i guess it is more or less a special version of Leopard, because it would be nonsense to release the iPhone with Tiger on it if 10.5 is so close, wouldn’t it?

I bet Leopard is good enough to go for the iPhone hardware configuration, just not yet ready for all the different Mac hardware configurations that are sitting on desks all around the world.

But who knows. If it is Leopard, it would be a pretty good chance for the freaks to finally get their hands on Leopard, since everyone who attended WWDC07 is pretty close to shit the pants when someone talks about sharing the WWDC07 beta.

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My commencement speeches

By Manuel Martensen | Published: May 18, 2007

I love commencement speeches. They give me a huge inspirational kick in the ass.

You’ve probably heard Steve Jobs speech at Stanford in 2005 — it’s a classic. Here is another one, by Khoi Vinh (who leads the online design team for the NY TIMES) and it comes with a very appealing title (to me at least):
14 years of failure

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Logo for Lafays Clothing

By Manuel Martensen | Published: May 13, 2007

After fiddling around with a trillion fonts (and zillions of hours of hacking and stabbing them) i just took a pen and a napkin and scanned my fancy handwriting in — I know it’s not perfect, the big L is a bit too wide and the small f misses some girly curly swing at the bottom, but the client is happy and needed it done in ’98 already (the ys looks perfect though). It ain’t looking to shabby, or?

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Seperated after birth?

By Manuel Martensen | Published: May 13, 2007

Looks like that the City of Prince George and supercool one-of-manuels-favs Fashionlabel Fenchurch Clothing share the same DNA. When i look at those two wild Rascals, i shure can tell that they have the same mother. Question is, do those two know about each other? And who will tell?