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11:21 am Tue
Jul 30, 2013
Jackomatic's "15 Over-Used Movie Poster Clichés" is a gallery of damning thumnails showing the enormous uniformity of Hollywood's marketing machine, a place where everything looks pretty much like everything else, always. My goodness, that's a LOT of women in red dresses.
15 Over-Used Movie Poster Clichés
(via Wil Wheaton)
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The graveyard of failed startups is littered with concepts that just got lost in translation. At its core, that’s what great front-end design is about: Making an app or website usable, translating its best ideas smoothly to the user. It’s a skill so broad there might be no one book or course that covers it […]
