Design is not just for experts! And it is always interesting to document various perspectives – from professors to mentors to clients to friends to kids. Yes, kids! This is exactly what and Ohio-based identity designer Adam Ladd did. He asked his 5-year-old daughter her impressions on some popular logos.

Half full or half empty? We have heard this oh-so-often! If the glass is half full, or half empty? If a certain situation is in favor or against..? Or how do we react to a certain something, positively or not? Does it really matter? Its time to look at what the glass is filled with though.

Saturday morning (night for us in Asia) had the internet abuzz with a dramatic exchange of tweets between one of the most prominent thought-leaders of the internet, DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) and a YC-combinator funded startup Curebit’s co-founder Allan Grant. Curebit has been caught red-handed stealing (design) HTML code, images, and the like from Highrise… according to a detailed report by VentureBeat.

Who would have imagined a digital retouching in process, twenty-five years ago (1987)? Yeah, you read it right! This video (2:48), takes us through a quick digital retouching process. If our knowledge serves us right, that’s some three years before Photoshop 1.0 was introduced. Some technology, eh?

SOPA is Stop Online Piracy Act. Also known as House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261, SOPA is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011. According to Wikipedia, if this bill is made into a law, it would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.

2011 was a great year! It saw many advancements in the field of sports, internet, show biz, technology and more. It also saw advancements in how one of internet’s most innovative companies, Google, designed its logos, also known as ‘doodles’. They were a lot more interactive, fun, memorable and non-google in 2011!