Notes in RGB, blog of Ole Martin Kristiansen

I think it’s safe to say that I’m not the only one that has been feeling the hype of CloudApp the last weeks on Twitter. Being friends with one of the designer and developer (Maximilian Schöning) of the CloudApp, I managed to sneak myself in as a beta tester a few weeks ago and so far I’m loving this little thing. I’ve been trying out several different applications that can be considered CloudApp’s competitors, but they’re all full of weaknesses and seem very unfinished. For those of you who don’t know what the CloudApp is, let me explain quickly.

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A social media expert is a 1 to 114 year old person that uses the internet on a regular basis and there uses sites similar to facebook, twitter, digg, or writes or reads a blog.

A social media expert is not a 57 year old person that has spent the last 25 years of his life at an old private university teaching students how the internet works and the history behind it and then recently took a learning course over the weekend in the basement of the local gym called ‘How Facebook will change your life and reconnect you with your family’.

That same person also took the course ‘Dreamweaver for professionals, learn how to make those tables look right’ and ‘SEO - We’re not sure what the fuck it is, but we can make lots of money off it’.

PS: No harm intented for professors at universities, just an example.

I would –

A pretty young version of me

For the last 5 weeks we’ve been doing ‘Specialization part 2′ at Hyper Island. A module where  the class divides up in different specializations (Technology, Management and Design) and gets special assignments for each specialization. We (design specialization) got a very interesting brief from 3 young Swedes that had a dream to produce jeans in North Korea. They had an incredibly well documented story and both an interesting and unique concept. Our brief said to design a graphical profile, web concept, launch strategy as well as package design for a future perfume and the launch strategy behind it. Quite the brief – and with only 4 weeks of production it seemed like we were in for a real challenge!

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One of the worst nightmares for a designer is probably theft. Someone steals your work, sells it and earns money from it. It just got worse.
Jon Engle is a graphic designer from New Mexico. The last year has been a hell from him, after a stock art site stole his work, sold it and then sued him – claiming that he had stole their work. Read his blog post about the situation and give him your support.

This is very worrying. If you read the blog post, Jon Engle writes that the same stock site has done this once before. What’s preventing other stock sites to do exactly the same? I suggest we all keep our eyes open, keep backup of any mails, drafts and other things that can be used as proof.