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Jul 22 08

Design

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Lorem Oopsum

I don’t follow sports at all, but I have been following Rhonda Rousey’s Olympic campaign for a bit. ESPN wrote up a short profile on her and a few other US Olympic hopefuls. Of course, I couldn’t help but notice this:


That’s right, looks like a little bit of our good ‘ole friend lorem ipsum escaped the designer, copywriter, and art director; and was signed off and launched. I didn’t dig around on the site since the navigation is clumsy and borders on impossible (yes, carousels are trendy–this one is fucking fast and clumsy) so I’m not sure if they were missed on other profiles. I discovered this slip, however, on July 14th and as of today, it’s still there.

Judo seems to be quite the neglected sport here in the US. ESPN’s web team doesn’t even care.

The design of spilled milk

Costco and Sam’s Club are rolling out a new design of the classic one-gallon milk jug. In time where energy costs are ever increasing and the importance of conserving natural resources is growing, an update to of an inefficient traditional design is overdue. From the article in the NY Times, these jugs cut labor costs in half and water use by 60 to 70 percent at dairies and reduce transport trips to Sam’s Club from 5 to 2 per week. The new design allows Sam’s Club to store 224 gallons of milk in the same space that could only hold 80 gallons using the traditional jug. Continue reading »