Tumblr Staff: News!

staff:

Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.

Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to…

I’m in two minds about this news. On the one hand, the best Yahoo has done with an acquired property is to fail to entirely destroy Flickr. On the other, Yahoo have hired people recently who get this and will be trying to avoid crushing the creative heart out of Tumblr with Yahoo’s thousands of clunking fists. It might be OK? And it’s not as if Tumblr could continue forever without any detectable income.

wilwheaton:

jenniferdeguzman:

He said Star Trek is too “philosophical”? Screw that noise.

mechcanuck:

I don’t know when this interview happened but I AM SAD AND ANGRY NOW 

The philosophies in Star Trek are kinda part of the actual setting. If you don’t get that, why are you allowed to make Star Trek movies.

Sigh. The whole point of Star Trek is that it’s philosophical. If you don’t want philosophical Science Fiction, there’s plenty of that for you to enjoy, but Star Trek is philosophical. Philosophy is part of Star Trek’s DNA, and if you’re given the captain’s chair, you’d better damn well respect that.

Not sure which is more annoying, information presented only in video form, or videos converted in to a bunch of animated gifs with subtitles, but nevertheless here is the excuse we need to disdain Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into (or into) Darkness, should such an excuse be required which obviously it isn’t so nevermind.

(Source: catbushandludicrous)

Brand New: Kering Goes Owl Out with New Branding: Established in 1963 as Pinault — later Pinault-Printemps, later Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, most recently PPR, and completely renamed as Kering this past March — is one of the most comprehensive parent company of luxury brands, including Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Brioni, Christopher Kane, and Stella McCartney among others as well as sports brand Puma. Family-owned since its inception, Kering is present in more than 120 countries, it employs 33,000 people and generates 9.7 billion euros in revenue. The new name was created internally with help from Havas Lifestyle, who are also credited with designing the logo and identity while Dragon Rouge is credited with brand strategy and the signature.

Brand New: Kering Goes Owl Out with New Branding:

Established in 1963 as Pinault — later Pinault-Printemps, later Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, most recently PPR, and completely renamed as Kering this past March — is one of the most comprehensive parent company of luxury brands, including Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Brioni, Christopher Kane, and Stella McCartney among others as well as sports brand Puma. Family-owned since its inception, Kering is present in more than 120 countries, it employs 33,000 people and generates 9.7 billion euros in revenue. The new name was created internally with help from Havas Lifestyle, who are also credited with designing the logo and identity while Dragon Rouge is credited with brand strategy and the signature.

mrgan: Are you undecided in the great Flat vs. Skeuououmourphic design debate of 2012? Are you unsure of how flat is flat enough (but not too flat)? Wondering what it means to let a button be a button? Use this handy chart to pick the button that looks like a button to you! Work-relevant to so many of my friends these days …

mrgan:

Are you undecided in the great Flat vs. Skeuououmourphic design debate of 2012? Are you unsure of how flat is flat enough (but not too flat)? Wondering what it means to let a button be a button? Use this handy chart to pick the button that looks like a button to you!

Work-relevant to so many of my friends these days …

taikova: I practised some of this post’s tips. I’ve always sucked with backgrounds and positioning people in a way that makes sense, and this is a small step toward improvement.  (no refs used, so it’s very inaccurate) might tweak this drawing a bit later. “The Return”, by the way.

taikova:

I practised some of this post’s tips. I’ve always sucked with backgrounds and positioning people in a way that makes sense, and this is a small step toward improvement. 

(no refs used, so it’s very inaccurate) might tweak this drawing a bit later.

“The Return”, by the way.