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Seeing how the ’social dictatorship’ that is Facebook is forcing its users to switch to the new timeline layout, we decided to bite the bullet and do something about it now. I wont rant on about how unintuitive the customisation options are or how bad the compression is when you upload an image, if you haven’t experienced this yet then you’re in for a treat.

I wanted to see what others had been doing with their space other than use a poorly cropped image and found a huge amount of blog posts on the subject with a few people changing their cover images weekly... and yet once again, Facebook have to go and spoil the fun with a set of ridiculous rules such as no calls to action or contact information, I’m sure this list will start to expand over time.

80 Creative Facebook cover images.

Stop the Violence is a series conceived by photographer Francois Robert who has collaborated with Rick Valicenti from 3st. Francois came up with a alphabet made solely out of bones for the photography exhibition "Stop the violence" and Rick stepped in to design the book and also producing a 60 sec promo video.

There are a couple more shots of the collaboration here at 3st.

I received my copy of Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts yesterday and although i only had time for a flick through I was immediately impressed.

You can tell how much time and thought has been put into the book straight away and it is absolutely packed with great designs and stories of the designs and the artists as well as documenting the history of Threadless.

Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts is broken up with a huge collection of images but not something that requires only half an hour of your attention which is a plus point in my, er... book.

If you love tee design culture, great illustration and awesome detail then you should give this one some time, it truly is an inspirational book.

This is a great little film by Mashtart following a guys time as a Facebook user.

COLOURlover of colourlovers.com has put together an interesting report on the colors used in the top 100 brands around the world with some very interesting results, take a guess as to the dominant branding color, you may be surprised?

According to Mark Zuckerberg; creator of Facebook, choose blue as the social networks brand color as he is color blind and its the only color he can see clearly. Others have admitted to simply using a primary color for their brand when starting up and had no real focus on design or the repercussions.

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