Louie Mantia, Jr.
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What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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20th Century Fox → 20th Century Studios
Fox Searchlight → Searchlight Pictures
Honestly, this is a fairly elegant way to remove “Fox” branding, which now refers exclusively to Fox Corp brands like Fox News and Fox Sports.
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I know that no one asked. I just needed to do this for me.
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Remember! “Fox” was not originally part of this iconic logo. It was added.
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This morning I made a “social media statement”-style joke image as if it had come from Olive Garden, and I want to talk about why I made it and why I deleted it.
Just so I’m abundantly clear: it’s not a real statement.
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Saw a few “a lot of people are working from home now, here are some tips” threads.
I’ve been working from home for 5 years, but this week has been really difficult for focusing.
It’s not just because you’re new at working from home. A lot of it is because of the circumstances.
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Icons: they’re not logos.
Use elements of your brand like color, shape, weight, and style, but resist the urge to just use your logo.
Remember that on your customers’ home screens, your brand name is already underneath the icon.
(You can hire me if you want. I’d love to help!)
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When my dumb joke about revoking Pasta Passes is believed to be true by *actual journalists* and causes *actual stress* for people who now have to deal with my joke, I think it becomes not *just* a joke.
So, I deleted the original tweet.
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I have two things to say about this image from Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.
1. It's cool to see Apple acknowledge that maybe they were wrong about iOS 7's style of outlined icons.
2. The checkmark and X below each example is perfectly ironic.
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wow this really blew up
check out my soundcloud
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@DisneyParksNews
This sucks. It sucks that so many Cast Members have to be laid off, and it sucks to see Disney blaming California for not allowing them to reopen.
The reason Disneyland shouldn’t reopen is for the health and safety of Disney’s Cast Members *and* your Guests.
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Been working on an all-new, totally-different kind of icon for Magic Passport and I’m really proud of it.
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@BeDruyneKev
@K_Blacck
To believe vaccines cause autism is not an “opinion.” It is a rejection of objective fact.
If you encounter someone who rejects reality like that, it absolutely makes you more carefully consider what else that person thinks and says.
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Of course the poop tweet is popular. Anyone could’ve predicted this but me.
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Here’s the thing about the small desk Trump is sitting at. It’s like... a bill-signing desk. It’s meant to have a dozen or so people around it. I think it might be small so that more people can cram in for a photo op.
It is not intended to be a desk you sit at alone.
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Two days ago, Anderson Cooper said those who attacked the Capitol would be returning to Olive Garden and Holiday Inn.
And then, Sean Hannity spent time on his show talking about how much he loves Olive Garden.
These things actually happened. It’s ridiculous.
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⚠️ Disney+ should add warnings and disclaimers before films begin that are unskippable, with a button to learn more from a video segment specific to that film. That same button should also appear in the corner when an altered or intact scene is shown.
Here’s what I suggest:
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I had a really fun time making these alternate app icons for
@halidecamera
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@sdw
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Sometimes I think about how great it is that Tokyo Disney Resort has wood models of attractions at Guest Relations so blind guests can feel what they are unable to see.
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It’s extremely gross that sharing your contacts with any app is ever allowed. You don’t have permission from everyone in your address book to just hand over their data. This is an irresponsible practice that has gone on for far too long. It’s not your data to give.
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We need to stop calling for people to be fired because of trivial things.
After that iOS software update popup from yesterday about updating from the iOS 12 beta, I saw someone say “someone should be fired.” That’s really short-sighted. That is a human being with a livelihood.
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There is a very low bar for what companies and individuals feel like they need to make public statements about.
Example: the fact that AXE felt like they should make a genuine statement about a can of body spray left inside the Capitol building is absurd.
We'd rather be lonely than with that mob. AXE condemns yesterday's acts of violence and hate at the Capitol. We believe in the democratic process and the peaceful transition of power.
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I would really like to see companies embrace (and in the case of Apple, enforce) more ethical subscriptions. After any kind of free trial, I want to be prompted before I'm billed. Signing up to be billed after I forget about it is gross. We can do better than that.
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Every once in a while, someone makes a post suggesting that icons aren’t very helpful in software and we should be using text instead.
And it drives me bananas every time.
🧵⬇️
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When I worked on iTunes 10, Steve requested to remove all icons from the source list (sidebar). I created shaded monochrome icons as a last-ditch effort to save them. The request to *remove icons* inadvertently shifted the sidebar icon style on a system level for the next decade.
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maybe the *worst* design decision in big sur is hiding the titlebar folder icon until you hover for a few seconds. people USE that. it’s not just decoration.
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@whittlingbabe
@Oregonian
“well you see, it was a white person so it’s not necessary to riot”
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If you’re puzzled about the Infinity Stones, this might help! Movies they’re featured in, their containment devices, and who has them now.
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When thinking about the absurdity of Olive Garden being dragged into this current event (and accounting for the fact that I have very little actual work to do these days), I wrote a fictional statement from Olive Garden... revoking Sean Hannity’s “Lifetime Pasta Pass.”
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I intentionally sprinkled in references to Anderson Cooper’s jab such as “Holiday Inn” that should’ve made this an obvious joke to anyone who read it. However, people thought Sean Hannity really lost his Pasta Pass (which, as we all know, has not been sold since 2019).
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What I didn’t write intentionally was the typo many people have since pointed out: “viscous” instead of “vicious”
People latched onto that really quick, mentioning “alfredo” enough times for me to crave it. I think this typo contributed to this tweet being shared.
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I think most people know that emoji 絵文字😊 come from Japan 🗾, but if you’re curious about the word itself:
“E” 絵 means “picture” 🖼
“ji” 字 or “moji” 文字 mean “character” (as in typographic character) 🖋
So emoji are “picture characters”‼️
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experiencing the weirdest kind of nostalgia today so i made this
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In America, kids don’t like broccoli. In Japan, kids don’t like bell pepper (paprika). So Pixar localized the joke for Inside Out!
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@amazonnews
sounds like you don’t know who works at the state level and who works at the federal level
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Remember when people had no idea what the iPhone would be like?
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People joke that social media managers have a rough time when something like this happens. I know that to be true, and I didn’t consider that aspect seriously enough. Nor did I consider that my verified badge on Twitter would lend credence to something as stupid as this.
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Oh my god. Hillary’s 404 page is her trying to use the Metro card.
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Posting to your own timeline for an audience that is familiar with you is one thing. However, when it leaves your network through retweets and quote tweets, the context is lost instantly. People were retweeting and quote tweeting faster than I could keep up with.
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🤡 I decided to take each Clown emoji and... remove its makeup. 🙂
Seeing them without makeup might explain why some appear creepier than others (notably Apple’s, in my opinion): the more they deviate from the proportions from their respective sets, the creepier they seem to be.
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I needed my Apple Watch to feel more appropriate for my Batuu adventure, so I made these four wallpapers:
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🥶 Cool Take
When we lost visual richness in software, we lost a requirement to think about design with regards to how it looks. Everyone loved to parrot Steve Jobs’ famous quote “Design is how it works,” but what he said was much more nuanced. ⤵️
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Rogue One appears to have the most planetary shots of any Star Wars film, and they’re all gorgeous. Here’s some. (I’ve comped out ships, sorry.)
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💻 Nook Storage — hard drive icons for your computer
In the spirit of Tom Nook, these icons cost money: $5.
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I think I understand why people plug their own stuff in replies to popular tweets.
The attention given to the silly things we find is often larger than the attention toward things we make. And it’s not “sad” per se, but it is a little …I dunno. Disappointing?
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Celebrating 7000 likes on the LEGO poop tweet by ordering the best chicken sandwich on planet Earth for lunch.
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For your information: Tokyo Disneyland breakfast buffets have Churro Bread Pudding. How is this not at the American parks? Yet again, Japan is beating us at our own game.
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fanta’s brand evolution is maybe the one example we have where every version was an absolute banger
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@joshuajfriedman
@waxpancake
That can’t be it. People change their display names all the time. I do.
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It’s not to say at all that those threads are wrong. There are some great tips out there. But I just want you to know that even if you do all those things, it’s still likely going to be difficult for a little while, and it’s not because you’re not working from home “correctly.”
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omg my girlfriend just called this area of the imac a “stickynote bar”
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remember that round white unibody macbook? gosh, take me back.
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When you start dragging one icon, tap others to add it to a stack.
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It’s like— Instead of receiving attention for any of the things we spend years on that we love doing, the attention instead goes to things like noticing LEGO poop or faking Sean Hannity’s Olive Garden pasta pass getting revoked.
Not a complaint, just an observation.
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I woke up at 4am thinking “what if the Star Wars logo had variable weight?” and I couldn’t go back to sleep. This is very stupid. Please don’t encourage me. I would’ve preferred to have slept.
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Well we have a whole tiki bar to ourselves. Ha ha ha ha.
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Hi. I wanna introduce you Pakitte from Dispen Pak Japan. It’s a vastly superior variety of condiment packet that breaks in the middle, releasing the condiment inside, often *two different condiments*.
We need this in America.
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Let’s say person A blocks person B.
Person A can still reply to person B’s tweets. This is a *huge* problem on Twitter, because it allows person A to say whatever they want for person B’s followers to see, and person B can’t see or hide those replies.
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I’m not necessarily suggesting that every app in every category use the same exact metaphor, but for the sake of argument, here’s an example of how different brands might approach the same metaphor.
You don’t have to throw out brand equity to have an informative icon. 🙂
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This is an example of how horrible this feature is:
• the tweet
• the sole note on the tweet
• the author of that note
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Well, it’s been five years. So where are they?
Scientists Say They Can Recreate Living Dinosaurs Within the Next 5 Years
http://t.co/NCHlCVx8ad
by
@Geoff_Weiss
http://t.co/4vk36Xa13Y
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The Ryan Reynolds Deadpool continuity cannot be part of the MCU.
The very fact that Josh Brolin is playing Cable in Deadpool 2 kills the idea entirely.
Josh Brolin also plays the biggest villain in the MCU: Thanos.
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@GovParsonMO
The laws you’re screenshotting here require someone to have “tampered” with the data. By making the data unencrypted and freely available in the HTML itself, any user viewing the page is authorized to see it. Additional authorization was not required to view this data.
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