The new design manages to retain the Olympic rings and definitely gives a ‘nod’ to the original logo. Is it modern without being extreme? I guess. Is it easier to produce than the previous mark? Not really. Then again, when people vote for a logo online they don’t typically take those considerations into account. All said, the logo update turned out OK. The letterforms seem to be drawn and kerned a little better. The top serifs have been applied more consistently from letter to letter than the previous ones. The wordmark does seem a little leaner and more ‘aerodynamic.’ The introduction of green is an interesting choice. The rest (the letterform shading, the shadows in the rings, the blue shift and the tracking of the word ‘AIR’) is mostly competent, if forgettable. As it turns out, Olympic Air now uses the negative version of the logo with flat-shaded rings on their web site. This seems to erase much of what differentiated the new mark from the old one—something that could have been mitigated if the designer played a larger role in the process. Will people look at the new home page and realize the brand has changed? Only time will tell. [via Brand New]

busy. dirty. never a dull moment. i must say i have fallen in “i really like you” with new york city.

most of my time there was spent with my lovely veronica going out, eating, dancing, shopping, relaxing, having a good time. i couldn’t have asked for more. it was such a fun and necessary trip. 

although when she was working/in class i was alone in the largest metropolitan area in the US. what’s one Bos to do in such a large city. 

there’s always something to do. and it’s overwhelming. you feel like you need to constantly be on the move, be rushed, doing something, otherwise you might as well be in Boston. I joke. But it’s no joke that New York City is tough to keep up with.

You look around you and it’s always hustling. This city truly never does sleep and it’s easy to fall into that trap, that warped mindset of always having to be on the go. losing sleep. for instance, wednesday evening when I arrived, we spent some time @ veronica’s place, it’d been two months since we last saw each other and quite honestly we needed to get over the surreal-ness of the moment. so around midnight we decided it’d be a good time to go out, grab a bite to eat and a drink. we’d both had long days, hadn’t eaten, and had an appetite. she took me to cafeteria. (i just googled their web site to link it up and it’s quite amazing. don’t let the soothing music take anything away from what i’m about to say). so we walk there and i’m expecting a chill 24 hour diner type place that will have ok food and a quiet tone to it. i mean it is a wednesday night and it’s past midnight.

we walk in, i felt like i had to be on a guest list to be seated. the place is bumping. packed. energy. life. music. very cool. posh. quite nice. the food was delicious. the drinks were great.  not what i expected at all for a place called cafeteria on a wednesday night. instantly it felt like a friday or saturday night and we had been out partying and going crazy. thinking back to this moment. it embodies everything i felt about new york city there after.

you don’t find these places anywhere else. you might. but i haven’t. i won’t. this was a first. but as i sat there gazing at my beautiful companion, eating away at my delicious fried chicken salad and sippin’ on my coco mojito, i found myself rushing to get through this because i felt like i had to quickly do something immediately after. woah! what a feeling. 

new york city doesn’t stop. and you can’t stop either. everything you do, everywhere you go, it’s packed and you need to know the way. people are moving, doing things incredible and terrible. always. always.

it’s overwhelming of course, but i feel like you need to own it. you need to make yourself own it. the city, the lifestyle. you need to grab it and make it your own. and that’s the beauty of it all i think. there’s no set path. they always say you if you make it in new york you can make it anywhere, and i think that’s left open for interpretation. i believe that if you make yourself in new york city, you can take that anywhere. in new york, you can make your own path in life, but you need to abide by their rules of the game. you can’t stop. if you’re up to it, you’ll be sitting high, if you’re not, prepare to be left in the dirty, dark, hard to breath dust and smog they call air.

i’ve been doing a lot of microblogging instead of actually writing in this big white space that has been taken over by videos and photos. but i want you to know that i haven’t forgotten, i just haven’t wanted to write anything as of late. at the same time, i have just become addicted to the twitter machine.

so if you have been paying attention to the tweet updates on the left you’ll know that i was recently in detroit for the chicago bears game at ford field. road tripped it up there with my uncle, cousin and his friend and stayed at the Renaissance center; which is a really nice hotel, apparently the tallest building in all of the detroit metro area as well. and hey, as soon as we got to the lobby we saw a couple bears players walking through. so not bad at all. and across the street or river was windsor which reminded me of days of old when we road tripped it to toronto a few years back. anyhow, detroit is really a blah kind of city with not much going on except for a bears game. 

tomorrow afternoon i’m headed towards new york city. i’ll be there for a week. celebrating a very special birthday. exploring the city. you gotta live life.

school started today. alright it started on monday really. i’ve got a nice balance of classes here with motion graphics, physics, math and effective speaking. i think you can see the two classes i’m most looking forward to. although i’m not sure it’s going to be a cake walk this quarter. first time i’m doing a “full load” with no real interactive design classes. a little different, but i’m willing because it seems like forever since i was last in school even though i took those online courses. it’s just nice to be back in the atmosphere of things and downtown and not in an online cafe in greece. although maybe that wouldn’t be so terrible either. 

i’m a moving machine right now. today was non-stop, this past weekend was non-stop, and i guarantee you that in the city that never sleeps…it will probably be non-stop.

keep an eye out for photos, tweets, stories, etc…

i just got back from my vacation in greece. two and half weeks in limnos, four days in mykonos and two days in athens. 

i know exactly what you’re thinking…not enough time. maybe in mykonos. but overall, i could’ve done another week in limnos, maybe a few more nights in athens. there’s just so much to see, do and time to be had to relax. why was i in such a rush to get back to this life of online courses for the next few weeks? well, truth is, the family booked the tickets together and so we went and left together. 

it was good though. i got to see family, friends, foes, that i haven’t seen in more than seven years. eight to be exact. no foes, i kid. i swam in beautiful beaches, i ate delicious souvlaki, i smoked my brains out with cigarettes to maintain the mediterranean lifestyle, i partied on the craziest island in all of the motherland, and i got a crazy tan to enhance my olive tone.

how could i complain? i’m not! i’d do it all over again in a heartbeat and then some.

but when? before this trip it had been eight long years since i last visited. will it be another eight? i hope not. there’s people i want to see there, there’s people i want to take there. eight is too long. but with so much other beauty and mystery to see in this world, how could i fall into that trap that so many greek american’s fall into of going back year after year and then never see another coast, mountain, sunset, monument on this earth?

it’s sad that some of these people never get to see another part of this world because year after year they spend their summers in greece. visiting their grandma, grandpa, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. but wait is that sad? or is the fact that i hadn’t seen the people that love me and care for me in such a long time, sad?

you give and you take. life is about moderation and balance. of course it’s beautiful to see the world and experience different cultures, but you must not lose touch with your own. especially when that culture is so rich and beautiful and full of life. 

so maybe again next summer i’ll take a trip out to greece for a couple of weeks. but then am i holding myself back from seeing other beautiful parts of this world? 

of course not, there’s the EURO RAIL!

in a few hours i will be boarding a plane heading to madrid. yes i have been to madrid before, but never for this reason. when i reach madrid, i will go ahead and board yet another plane just hours after landing and will then be heading towards Athens. And just a few hours after that I will be boarding yet another plane, yes another plane, towards the island of Limnos.

if you recall back in january, i was in cape town south africa and my sister had a baby. well just six months later we are all together again and heading to greece, the island of Limnos to baptize that child. Anastasia Danae will be baptized, I will be on holiday for the second or third time this year and I cannot be more excited about it!

of course it means laying in the sun on a beautiful beach. yes it means being with family and in the country your ancestors are from. it’s all of that and more! it’s all of that PLUS! i get to blog again! Do you remember? I use to blog quite often when i was in cape town at the beginning of the year. in fact, this whole blog, helloBos.com, was created while i was in cape town.

so does this mean i will be blogging everyday…probably not. but it does mean that i will have so much to say AND i will have so many photos to share, so you should probably keep up with me. 

i am not quite sure what the internet situation will be for me, but i know this much. where there is iPhone, there is helloBos.

cheers & all the best!
-Bos 

so i’ve been bored with the design of hellobos. as usual i tend to want to make modifications or complete redesigns every couple of weeks. i’m surprised this one has lasted so long. anyway, i’m trying to think of how i will go about this site when i’m away in greece.

oh you didn’t hear? well in about six days i’ll be traveling to the homeland. my niece is being baptized and i’m becoming a citizen. pretty exciting stuff eh?

so of course there is going to be lots of time to take photos and upload them to tumblr via my new iPhone. so what is the best way to approach this? the current layout doesn’t really support or provide best viewing for multiple photos at a time. nor does it create a good layout for thumbnails. i’m trying to think of a better way.

it’ll come to me.

-bos

So I’ve just finished my first assignment for my current set of online courses. The first five weeks I will be taking Project Management, followed by Chemistry. Yes, it all sounds too exciting I know. Anyway, if you remember last February when I took my online course, the first assignment dealt with introducing yourself and whatnot and there was this one entry that really made me laugh. I wrote all about it, follow that link to look back.

This time around, same assignment. I was just telling Veronica on the phone how I wish I would have saved my previous assignment cause it would’ve saved me some time. 

So nothing really going on except that I will have plenty of time to blog (which probably means I won’t blog very much), since I have my online courses. Again, I will be traveling to Greece in August, so there should be some mobile travel blogs coming your way. Speaking of which, hopefully I will be able to blog via the new iPhone 3G that I bought. I know that typePad has an application, but I hope that Tumblr is working on one as well. Anyone know? That’d be good.

-Bos