One thing I love about the Internet is that it encourages and facilitates creativity because of the quick and easy way to create, publish and assimilate ideas. In the last weeks, there was one source of inspiration like few others: the presidential election in the United States. Especially the almost perfect campaign of Barack Obama, who convinced more than 60 million people to vote for him and therefore made history.

Many designers and artists helped him to achieve his goal by creating tons of images, wallpapers and posters, which spread like wildfire on the Web. And even though the whole hoopla verges on a personality cult, its richness and diversity is really impressive.

Here are just a few examples:

via c3o’s soup

via fubiz.net

via notcot.com

via robotwalrus.com

by tsevis via flickr

via Bits & Pieces

This is what the future of household technology looked like in 1969. Actually pretty impressive how accurate these predictions were. Of course, they didn’t call it the Interwebs those days.

This one has been around for a while now, I just rediscovered it today. So simple, so nice.

The agency responsible for this design is john st. Unfortunately, their website is a perfect example of how not to build a website.

(via yeahyoureright.com)

I decided to write some of my future articles in English and therefore I’m currently translating the pages of this website (but not the old articles - after all, I’ve got work to do ). I’m doing this for two reasons:

First of all, I’ve grossly neglected this blog lately and I wanted to change that. So, if I am going to devote more time to it anyway, why not write in English to reach a broader, more international audience while I’m at it?

Secondly, my English got a bit rusty over time. And when I say “a bit”, I really mean that I’ve been sitting on this post forever using five different online dictionaries and Google to find the right phrases. Yes, it is that bad. But reading the original English version of “The Gun Seller”, a great, fun novel written by Hugh Laurie, whetted my appetite for this language and I thought my website would be a great playground to train and improve my active vocabulary.

Color or colour?

Since I am European, British English seems to be the natural choice for my blog but coming from a programming background, the word “colour” just looks misspelt to me. So I guess, I’ll stick to the seemingly established tradition among bloggers, whose first language isn’t English, to randomly mix British English and American English with a pinch of the mother-tongue’s Grammar. Feel free to correct my spelling and/or grammar wherever you feel necessary.