**Disclaimer - This is NOT a political post of any sort. I would never share my personal thoughts on who should or shouldn’t be president of america on this blog. It is not that type of blog. It is however a design blog and I want some Obama Force One kicks. So there’s that…

[ Found at Today and Tomorrow ]

Jim Lasser is an art director and copywriter at Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, and he made these Obama Force One sneakers.

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Brian Yerkes has created a project to display business cards of design bloggers from around the globe. Stop by and check them out today (he also has a fantastically designed site).

Here is D2L’s card:

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Apparently Banksy has been on a southeast american tour and some of his work has been spotted in birmingham:

My personal favorite:

Unfortunately, it’s has already been painted over:

Thanks to the folks over at 1stwebdesigner.com for this list of must-know photoshop shortcuts.

*The following is taken from their post*

Global keyboard shortcuts

1.You can check all Your preferences pressing CTRL + K and learn more.

2. Press TAB - to show/hide tool panels;

3. Press SHIFT + TAB to show/hide only Your palette;

4. Press F repeatedly to cycle screen modes;

5. Press CTRL + TAB to switch to Your next document;

6. Press CTRL + SHIFT + TAB to switch to Your previous document;

7. Press CTRL + T to enter free transform mode

I can’t tell you how much I use the CTRL + T shortcut. If you don’t already use shortcuts, do yourself a favor and learn a couple a week. It really does save you time when designing.

The folks over at monoface have created something that I’m sure is going to contibute to thousands of lost hours of productivity, but boy is it fun.

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The folks over at Fudge Graphics release free calendar desktop images monthly. September’s is excellent. Best part? They are free.

[ click on the image to get the calendar ]

Dear Adobe was created as an outlet to display our gripes about the wonderful products that Adobe creates. Great concept and according to them, Adobe has contacted them and they were really positive about it. This could be good…

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I think some brand redesings today fall short or don’t measure up to the brand they are replacing. Burger King is a good example. Don’t get me wrong, the new brand is not bad, it’s just that the original one was timeless. It makes me wonder if they knew it was a classic logo when they designed it. See for yourself:

The King’s classic brand:

The new classic?

What are your thoughts on this brand redesign?

Found over at swissmiss:

A reproduction of Édouard Manet’s ‘Bar at the Folies Bergere’ made entirely of old Pantone chips. Over 5,000 unused chips were painstakingly colour matched and and stuck down over four long nights, and acted as centre piece for a boozey party in our design studio. By Tim Fraser Brown.

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The folks at Smashing Magazine have done it again. Notepad Chaos is a quality wordpress theme. The best part? It’s free!

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