This is precious. Designer Adam Ladd asked his five-year-old daughter for her first impressions of several well-known logos and this is what happened.

The web is buzzing, and rightly so, about Wilson Miner’s incredibly inspiring talk from the 2011 Build Conference in Belfast. You may recognize Miner’s name from his role in developing Django, as part of the team that built Apple.com or as one of the founders of Everyblock.

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After you’re done be sure to visit Miner’s website, which has links to all the material used in the talk, including books, videos, music and images for anyone who would like to learn more.

[Found via Webmonkey]

The German carmaker has just released a 60-second teaser for its 2012 Super Bowl ad that features a chorus of dogs barking out “The Imperial March” from Star Wars. VW used that song as the backdrop to its beloved ad from Super Bowl 2011 that featured a young boy in a Darth Vader helmet attempting to use The Force to influence household objects. He succeeds in starting up his dad’s 2012 Passat with a little help. The teaser, called “The Bark Side,” shows that the brand hasn’t abandoned its Star Wars motif. However, neither VW nor its ad agency, Deutsch, is offering any further clues about its ad in the big game on Feb. 4.

I think any of us that have worked in “corporate” American have seen just about all of these things happen during a few presentations.