March 2010
15 posts
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Four Ways To Mix Fonts →
HF&J on mixing fonts:
Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing...
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The Urbanisation of Dubai →
Spectacular satellite imagery of Dubai — the difference in a decade is startling.
Inland, changes are just as dramatic between November 2000 and February 2010. In the earliest image, empty desert fills the lower right quadrant of the image, as cityscape primarily hugs the coast. As the years pass, urbanization spreads, and the final image shows the area almost entirely filled by roads, buildings,...
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Living Against The Grain →
Now this is inspired:
OLOMOUC, CZECH REPUBLIC — RADIM KRALIK and his wife, Barbora Kralikova, live in a modern concrete box on top of a 1943 grain silo, a stark contrast to the neo-Gothic spires that dominate this small city about 175 miles east of Prague.
The construction alone is impressive, but the design itself incorporates a fantastic “family” theme that is summed up here:
The...
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Head in the Cloud →
Dave Pell on how we rely on the cloud more & more:
At first, I was shocked. How could she possibly not know her own boyfriend’s telephone number? It must have been the trauma of being hit by a car. But then I thought about it for a few seconds, and I realized that – without pulling out my iPhone – I don’t know her telephone number either.
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Fitting, Really →
It’s not often you a see company with the market cap of Apple completely transform their front page into a tribute. There’s not a single product image or promotion on that page at all.
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Delectable Depth Of Field →
Just a quick one on what is a very busy day. I promise a more regular schedule come this weekend.
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iPhone App: Articles →
Just picked this up — I don’t do a lot of Wikipedia browsing on my iPhone, but when I do, I’m frustrated by the web UI they have. I don’t buy many apps — I have about 30, and of those, about 10 are actually on my phone — but the UI design and simplicity of Articles made me cave.
It’s worth a look, if not just for what some clever WebKit Views can do.
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gTLD Monetisation →
And it begins. The new gTLD monetisation ‘process’ provided by ICANN is absolutely terrible, and the start of a massive land-rush to capture brand-name gTLD’s is not going to do any favors for consumers or Internet users at all. It will make phishing schemes easier to propagate, and just increase the number of legal & trademark disputes over domain names.
TOKYO, March 16,...
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High Speed Rail →
Good read about trains in Europe with a slight mention of the US. I think rail travel in these fairly “dense” countries is definitely valuable and viable, and with air travel becoming more of a headache [security-wise] in some nations it’s also a more convenient option.
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Box Art To Die For →
Oh wow — I think Panic’s Neven sums this up perfectly:
For the game developer Accolade, the period between 1984 and 1990 marked a serious and unbeatable streak of awesome. We’re talking bold, timeless art; none of this so-bad-it’s-good nonsense.
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Facebook Redesigns, Redesigned →
An interesting re-design — though my concern is that the space on the right is very wasteful, especially for content with no comments. The bold blue side-bar is fantastic however — it makes the navigation a clear break from content.
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She & Him →
An adorable new website for the band She & Him — that is, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. Oh, and I’m rather impressed that it’s a band site without Flash.
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Out Of A Forest →
This is the most incredible video on Vimeo I have seen. Period. It is an amazing stop motion/CGI work that has me watching it over and over again. It’s set to “Slow Show” by The National, and it’s very fitting.
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From Russia With Love →
John Gruber of Daring Fireball fames sums up why I love this movie so well:
The second film in the series (after Dr. No). I watched it last night for the first time in a long while. So, so good. Low on the cockamamie; high on style and lovely details, including beautiful on-location footage of early-60s Istanbul. The plot revolves around a Russian code machine and a possible defector (who is, of...
February 2010
82 posts
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Bricks and Mortar →
Glorious amounts of detail here.
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Creatures of the Sea →
How some of these creatures survive the pressures of the Marianas Trench is still perplexing.
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Good Morning →
This shot could not have had better timing.