• Ari Elkouby, associate creative director at Proximity Canada, got into Applied Arts and did something different with his mugshot.
• You may remember Starbucks announced it had refined its logo. Yesterday, the company’s 40th anniversary, marked its widespread deployment.
• TED has this little knockoff of our Ads You Must See called Ads Worth Spreading. You may have heard of it. In any case, two Canadian projects made the list: John St.’s Pretty Ponies, and Dentsu Canada’s Legendary Biru. Congrats guys.
• North American revenues from 3D movies were approximately $2.2 billion last year. That’s nearly double the 2009 figures.
• Lifting the veil on some of Facebook’s arcana, GigaOm has this piece explaining its “likes.”
• I’m no mathematician, but this web comic from geek-favoured XKCD explains what I’ve always suspected.