“Macworld Lab tests found improvements in the performance of some non-Intel-native apps on systems running September’s OS X update — with some systems seeing their performance jump by more than 30 percent.”

“Brand New is a Speak Up spin-off displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work.”

“I thought it would be interesting to chart the circulation numbers for some of the higher-profile redesigns of the past couple years.” Via Design Observer.

Very handy for certain occassions.

Hilarious, especially for dog owners.

Great piece on why television dramas falter after a given amount of time.

I just think it’s a completely inadvisable idea to try and design a Web page from within an environment that resembles a print layout tool.

“700 cartoonists volunteer to draw one hobo each as a public service or for no particular reason. And so it was, more or less, and here they are.”

St. John, a talented designer and illustrator from HunterGatherer, will be giving a lecture next Wednesday at the Tisch Auditorium on West 12th Street. This is going to be a terrific event.

The author of the terrific site 100 Years of Illustration is posting about some of the wonderful post-War design work he’s done during his career.