If you’re curious about how websites work, you’ve ever selected ‘view source’ to see the guts of the HTML, or you have wondered about the ominous ‘back-end’, then wonder no longer. Back of a webpage reveals the inner workings of your favourite websites and gives new meaning to pressing the browser’s ‘back’ button.

The photographic paper detail on the Flickr one is genius. Send you own submissions to backofawebpage@gmail.com Found via davidthedesigner – Made me smile too…

It’s nice when you get the feeling a company is full of people who really like what they do. In this case it’s those Dyson boffins having fun with their new fan, a balloon and some blu-tack. As you do.

I don’t get very excited about the Oscars I’m afraid. It’s all a bit GMTV for me, but this year there’s been an interesting winner in the short films category. Logorama is a 15 minute film by H5 including a mind-boggling array of (mainly American) logos used in some really clever ways. Watch the trailer above to get the idea.

Apparently it took 6 years to create, I wonder how many of the companies they were using rebranded during that time…

There’s been a bit of a row online about it, as the entire film (which I’ve chosen not to show here) was leaked and – wait for it – the film makers did not have legal permission from all the companies whose logos they’ve used, to, er, use them. People hosting the entire film, or uploading it to youTube etc are getting slapped on the wrists as we speak, but that seems a bit hypocritical – If the film makers didn’t respect the rights of the logo owners, then they can hardly complain if people don’t respect their own intellectual property in turn.

Anyway, let’s all just be friends. If you want to watch the whole thing, it’s available on iTunes, or through some tactical Googling.

Google has designs on your entire computer now with their upcoming Chrome OS. This video explains it in a straightforward way. Perhaps a little too straightforward…

It’s really exciting stuff, but I mean come on, there are TWO letter Ts in the word ‘inTerneT’ guys. Innernet just makes me think of Dennis Quaid floating around the inner ear in his teeny submarine.

Still, people are increasingly making this sort of video now to explain their products or services. Perhaps because online things tend to be technical and scary to some people and are more palatable in felt tip pen and a soft Californian accent. Apple’s iPhone ads are almost painfully patronising.

Here’s a video which should help the Daily Mail get it’s head around Twitter.

As technology becomes more intuitive and reaches out to every generation during their everyday lives, then it’s only right that explaining things like this gets more natural, with companies’ official marketing starting to imitate the traditional word of mouth explanation in the pub. After all, previously technical terminology like ‘blog’, ‘ping’ ‘tweet’ etc are becoming more everyday language every, er… day. We’re finally getting comfortable with the future.

I’m holding out for Branding in Plain English, or something about the offside rule. A new video meme? Just wait for the parodies…

Sorry, I had to post this, it’s Friday. Cassetteboy is a bloody genius. If you’ve seen it before, watch it again, then check out the others on his site.

Check out this video, inspired by the Honda ‘Cog’ advert and others like it, chaos ensues at a print factory. Nicely done… [via]

Plastic bags needn’t hasten the end of the world, they can be fun too. Artist Joshua Allen Harris tied some to the subway grates in New York, and look what happened when a train sucked past…

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I’m getting a bit carried away with posts today, but I was reminded of the classic business card scene in American Psycho and thought I’d share. Funny how everything gets immediately more frightening when you preceed it with ‘American’. American Psycho, American Idol, American Airlines. I saw a programme called American Inventor last night and it terrified me to my very soul.

…the most frightening part of the business card clip though, was that I was most distressed by the fact that none of them measured 85x55mm…

Ever wondered what the title sequence to Star Wars would have been like if Saul Bass had done it? No? Well here’s the answer anyway:

As a graphic designer and a Hitchcock fan, I thought I’d take this opportunity to post my two favourite Saul Bass title sequences:

Psycho:

North by Northwest:

Genius!

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Check out this video of some lovely touchscreen game design. Shapes drawn on the screen take on physical properties in the game, it’s lovely. Something this well executed would work brilliantly on the Nintendo DS…

Cheers to Jonny for the link…