The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
This is just damning.
Client: “Can you draft me up a banner for our downtown location?”
Me: “Sure. What did you have in mind?”
Client: “It’s very simple. The Banner will read ‘#Occupy Pizza!’”
Me: “Uh, do you really want to use that as a marketing ploy? I think it has different connotations than you might think—”
Client: “And a picture of a pizza with a tiny slice shaded that says ‘We’re the 99%, so why not enjoy $1 off’, or something like that.”
Me: “Oh boy.”
*head-desk* *head-desk* *head-desk*
At last! Join us for the opening of our inaugural exhibition, Visions: Tim Hetherington and the launch of the Bronx Documentary Center on October 22, from 6-10PM.
Totally visiting this the next time I’m in town.
Google announced the mouthful known as “Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich” today. The first bullet point of their presentation was a new system-wide font, Roboto. John Gruber quickly pointed out what had caught my eye as well: Roboto sure looks a lot like Helvetica, the typeface so famous they made a movie of it.
Look, I know Picasso said (and Steve Jobs quoted him) “Great artists steal”, and all that, but this is basically Helvetica Droid.
Union Station #dcpanda (Taken with instagram)
US Capitol #dcpanda (Taken with instagram)
