Highly successful pro-skater, TV personality, and entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek founded the Rob Dyrdek Foundation back in 2003, to help communities design & build legal street skate parks. This way the kids can practice their ollies without getting chased by security guards. This weekend 530 were invited to Rob’s Fantasy Factory in DTLA/Boyle Heights, to take part in a benefit fundraiser for the excellent foundation. It was a good turnout, including pro skaters and LA Lakers, and some regular folk – like ourselves.
Did you know you can turn any video on the current YouTube video player into a classic game of Snake? Well, you can. Just click on the player, and then hold the Up Arrow key and the Left Arrow key down for about two seconds, and you’re off. Use the arrow keys to avoid hitting the walls, and to pick up the little targets.
Put your kerning skills to the test with Kern Type, a game of kerning. You get a word with messed-up kerning, and it’s your job to fix the problem. Then the game rates you out of 100 based on another typographer’s take on how the kerning should look. Fun for days.
Infographics are so hot right now. Especially infographics that are about 800 pixels wide, and 17 million pixels long. Because that’s the official format for infographics, afterall. So Mashable have kindly shared this infographic masterpiece which deftly navigates 7 innovative brands, and the ways that they invade markets and create new industries.
Yesterday we decided to have a Red Bull Art of Flight viewing party here at 530 HQ. So we ordered some tacos and stopped by the Hermosa Beach location of another great client of ours – Paciugo. The successful gelato & coffee business was founded in Dallas in 2007 by an Italian couple, and has expanded to dozens of locations around the country. 530medialab are currently in the process of developing a brand new website for them and the 326 different flavors of gelato they offer! Many thanks to the Paciugo Hermosa Beach staff for the delicious gelato and sorbet.
As you may know, today the world lost the incredibly talented Mr Jobs to cancer. So while we think about the impact Steve Jobs has had on computing, business, marketing, and directly in our own lives, what better way to remember his genius than with The Steve Jobs Soundboard from Complex.
Two months of work, all condensed into three and a half minutes of timelapse madness. Shot by Sasha Aleksandrov. Goes to show what you can do with a Nikon and few (hundred) cans of paint!
