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Wanted: WordPress Ninjas →Well, it’s not one of those terribly urgent emergencies, but very slightly urgent nonetheless… |
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The British Library’s 60,000-Book iPad App →Charleston, SC & London, UK — BiblioLabs, LLC and the British Library are proud to announce their British Library 19th Century Historical Collection App for iPad is now available on the App Store. |
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Wanted: 25 Graphic Designers →We need 25 contract/freelance designers for a short project with Agfa. |
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Isle of Tune →Isle of Tune is “a music sequencer for the modern colonial”… |
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Epic Google Docs Animation →The idea of sitting through any Powerpoint/Keynote makes my eyes glaze over, but I must have watched this Google Doc presentation at least a dozen times. |
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A Magazine Designer’s Guide to Designing Magazines →Every shipment of Stack America comes with an exclusive magazine-themed print. |
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Type In Print by Sergey Shapiro →Handlettered title made for a LiveJournal community dedicated to vintage books with “beautiful typography and calligraphy.” |
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1140px Grid System →A 1140px-wide, 12 column grid system that breaks down elegantly with smaller browser sizes. |
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New Web Interface for The New York Times →Google Chrome ha made a fantastic new HTML5 interface for the New York Times website that allows for keyboard shortcuts and different layouts. |
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Doodling and Knot Theory →Check out this fast-paced and pun-filled video by Vi Hart, where she uses knot theory and mathematics to draw snakes, ropes, and möbius strips. |
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So Useful: The Great Typekit Table →“Finding a good Typekit font for long blocks of text is hard, but Sleepover has made it a little easier for ya.” |
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Type Desk Welcomes Yoko Sakao Ohama →Yoko joins Type Desk to report from New York on design and logical process. Logical as apposed to illogical. Having worked with Yoko, I guarantee it’s a privilege to experience Yoko’s “logical process.” Welcome aboard Yoko! |
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Fold a Fitted Sheet →Jill Cooper from Living on a Dime shows a surprisingly simple way to fold a fitted sheet. |
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Geometric ID for Whole Education by Wire →Nice ID work by Wire Design. |
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Your copy/paste activities will be tracked →“If you’re a publisher, you want to know what your readers are most interested in–that way you can better target editorial and keep readers coming back. Until now, most publishers have relied on tracking whole pages to discern their readers’ priorities. But a tool from a company called Tynt, based in San Francisco, is giving them even better insight–by showing them the specific content within each page that readers are passing on to others.” |
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Flight Path Visualizations by Aaron Koblin →“This work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the project “Celestial Mechanics” by colleagues Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.” —Aaron Koblin, creator of this great work. |
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Ordering Disorder, Grid Principles for Web Design →This is definitely on my list. Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design (Voices That Matter) by Khoi Vinh |
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Le Buro ID by Inventaire →Nice branding by Inventaire for Le Buro |
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TypArchive →“Created by Typographer and Designer RD Granados in April 2009, TypArchive is an image collection focused on hand painted lettering. The goal was to build a site where others in the design community could contribute and use as a source of inspiration for new typeface designs.” |
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Paris vs New York, A Graphic Tally →“A visual but friendly match between those two cities seen by a lover of Paris wandering through New York’s infinite details, clichés and contradictions” |
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