March 2011
15 posts
Starting today, TEDTalks are now available on Hulu →
This past week I had the immense pleasure of interviewing June Cohen, TED’s VP of Media, who co-produces the TED conference taking place this week with TED’s Chris Anderson. We discussed the…
February 2011
20 posts
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-20) →
Yann Tiersen (40)
Radiohead (28)
Cut Copy (11)
jo hamilton (10)
Coldplay (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-13) →
Dan The Automator, Del The Funky Homosapien (12)
Carbon Based Lifeforms (11)
Platinum Weird (4)
Milosh (2)
Com Truise (2)
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Destination Design: God’s Window →
“A place so beautiful even God has a window.”
Tucked away nested in a valley in the mountains of Langeberg Mountains in southern South Africa is a place where the natural landscape is the…
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Today’s Obsession: ARS Novelty →
Multi-hyphenate Angus R. Shamal has just launched a new website for his microfoundry Ars Type, and in celebration is offering this beautifully rendered sans/serif hybrid typeface. While…
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Google Translate for iPhone now in App Store →
Google released a Google Translate Web app for iPhone users back in 2008, but now the Apple crowd has a native Google Translate iPhone app. Available in the App Store now, the free…
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Faux Holga | Mark Galer's Photoshop Essentials... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-6) →
Wu-Tang Clan (13)
Flying Lotus (11)
DJ Krush (11)
Sara Bareilles (10)
Four Tet (9)
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Euro Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars →
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My initial reaction to the book Euro Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars was disappointment. But it wasn’t because of the book itself, it was because of my…
Is There a New Leading Man in Hollywood? →
Since the mid-1990s Trajan has been the favored typeface for Hollywood movie advertisements and posters. But within the last two months a small batch of movies have appeared that emphatically…
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CSS Mess
To anyone who happens to read the posts from the actual site: Please forgive the CSS mess. I’ll see to it soon.
AudiType, Part 1 →
The custom typeface AudiType was produced between 2008 and 2009 and quickly drew the attention of the international typographic community. As a number of articles have already chronicled the main…
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Grids do not exist in a vacuum. They exist in relation to the content. We never...
– Linda van Deursen (via arstype)
It is a nice idea to start with a grid. I try to do it. But as the content starts flowing in I find reasons to break the grid—or tweak it. Trying to design grid first is like designing a geometric sans on a grid. You’re going to end up with a horsey design...
The NBC Peacock is Gone and Rightfully So →
In 2004 General Electric, the parent company of American television network NBC, purchased 80% of Vivendi Universal Entertainment, the parent company of Universal Pictures, cable channels like…
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