May 2012
15 posts
Aesop store installation by Cheungvogl, Hong Kong
via Retail Design Blog
I became a groupie of the tango bands, I went to the low dives. I lost my...
– 1988 Mother Jones interview with Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, who died yesterday. (via motherjones)
The importance of learning to code isn’t so that everyone will write code, and...
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A federal judge learned to code - O’Reilly Radar (via everythingisdisrupted)
HOTEL DOOR HANGERS
HOTEL DOOR HANGERS COLLECTED BY MY GRANDFATHER
When my grandfather passed away last year, my family gathered to go through his belongings. He had been in the foreign service and he had filled a whole wall of his study with hotel door hangers from all his travels throughout the world. They’re really beautiful, in aggregate, and I wanted to share. Enjoy.
from MICHAEL LEBOWITZ, the Founder...
April 2012
17 posts
Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel | Video on... →
App Tracks Your Teenager's Driving Habits →
smarterplanet:
By merging data from cars’ onboard computers and drivers’ smart phones, AT&T researchers have created a system that reports on drivers’ real-time behavior and long-term driving trends—and reveals whether a particular mistake might have been caused by phone use.
via singularitarian:
The Atlantic: Ideas for Creativity →
theatlantic:
Mark Tucker writes:
I work for an engineering firm that produces wireless products. As engineers, we’re tasked with producing new things with a minimum of new ideas. The latter restriction makes for safer design and brings things to market quickly and efficiently. Even with that limitation,…
March 2012
24 posts
Fresh Butter! spread it over your type...mmm.mm.m
portfoliocenter:
Spread it all over your type!… Portfolio Center Alum Joel Richardson and his partner David Hudson have officially unleashed the vr. #1 release of Typebutter, which allows you to set optical kerning for any font on your website. If you’re longing for beautifully laid out text that today’s browsers just don’t provide, this is totally the plug’n just for you!
Hank
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The Next Web
Yeah, so The Next Web tweeted about me and David’s jQuery plugin (Type Butter) today. No big deal.
TypeButter makes it easy for anyone to kern their Web typography tnw.to/1Dndr by @harrisonweber— The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) March 26, 2012
Oh, and they wrote an article about Type Butter. They mention us, no big deal. Read it here.
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Storefront Pro from Ale Paul
Another beautiful new script from the master. from Behance
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Artist suspends real clouds in the middle of the... →
good:
This is not a fluffy mass of cotton strung up in a room. It’s an actual, man-made cloud.
That’s not photoshop; that’s an actual cloud hovering inside an actual room. Artist Berndnaut Smilde merges art and science to create small man-made clouds that exist — albeit for just a moment — indoors.
(via singularitarian)
(via poptech)
I’ve been playing around with that before I started making records — the...
– Andrew Bird interviewed on Weekend Edition Sunday (via nprmusic)