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This week Smashing Magazine has a great overview for creating Style Guides for brands and websites. It covers the basics from Logos to color treatments, and even gets deeper into grid and icon use for websites. A comprehensive list of beautiful visual examples and related articles. A must read for designers who are new to the world of branding.
Juliana Hatfield is selling custom songs for $1000 on her website. She has limited the offer 20 songs, but for a grand you can send her your name and basic info and she will write a song for you within three months. She is also hand painting CD sleeves, signed and numbered, to go along with the track. Price conscious fans can spend $10 to be entered into a lottery for the same opportunity.
An interesting article from Techcrunch written by an iPhone application developer. It chronicles their experementation with both the paid and ad supported model for their app, and the monetary rammificiations of both. Some interesting numbers here that may be useful for people developing on other mobile platforms and wondering about the best way to monetize.