wassim maouad . illustration . visual arts . web 2.0

Ronald Mac Donald at his very best shape…

This blogger gathered a nice bunch of very nice business card designs (some of them are really awesome!); check his blog to see all the 70 items.

I came across this website recently, it threw me rather brutally back a little bit less than 20 years, when we frantically collected these jewels like our daily hummus ration depended on it…

Well, to my big surprise, they’re actually STILL PRODUCING it, and the Garbage Pail Kids webiste is happily promoting the series 7! You seem to be able to design your own pail kid on their site, but I haven’t played with that… yet! ;)

An advertisement for, obviously, toothache drops based on cocaine, that were common in the XIXth century.

My life changed when I discovered Freemind, a mind-mapping software written in Java, which makes it platform agnostic (it works on all OSses with Java installed).

Its minimal interface, rich contextual menus (when you right-click on things) and very intuitive keyboard hot keys makes it easy to learn, and even easier to use.

The map you end up with can be exported in a multitude of formats: HTML/xHTML with or without Javascript, PDF, images (PNG, JPG), Open Office Document, and the one format that’s likely to be underrated by most: SVG, an XML based vector graphics format that can open so many doors to injecting the map in other applications.

You can plan a website, a company or a whole dictatorship without a sweat; it’s a very useful tool.