- Nov 27
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- PolaPremium, the new home of instant photography. Oh, hell yes. Loads of film, cameras, and goodness.
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- Nov 26
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- Zoetrope
- Zoetrope, a joint project between the University of Washington and Adobe to archive the web, make it searchable, and intelligently choose which pages to archive and how often to archive them, based on the frequency of updates. The project also includes the creation of an application to search through archived pages and compare them over time. This is seriously promising.
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- Nov 25
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- Subversion Client Roundup
- Dan Mall on the state of Subversion clients, from a designer’s perspective. Conclusion: right now ZigVersion is probably your best option.
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- Questionable Characters
- Questionable Characters, illustrators Ben Barry and Frank Chimero answer reader questions, often in delightful ways.
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- Space Alone?
- NYU researchers find spacing to be the defining factor of what makes text legible, due to the universal principle of the Bouma law.
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- Nov 20
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- Frenzic
- Frenzic, an awesome and addictive puzzle video game, is now out for the iPhone. This is one of the first iPhone games I haven’t been bored with after 10 minutes. From your friends at The Iconfactory and ARTIS Software.
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- Snow Angel Letterpress Cards
- Simple and gorgeous letterpress holiday cards with blind printed snow angel. Great use of the medium.
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- Nov 19
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- The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway
- The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway, a long and engrossing read on the history of typography in the NYC Subway.
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- Nov 18
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- Design by the Book
- Design by the Book, a collaboration between design*sponge and the New York Public Library, who’ve invited five Brooklyn-based artists to draw inspiration from the NYPL’s collections to make… something! They’ll film the whole deal like an independent Project Runway for visual designers. Subscribe for free on iTunes U.
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- Designers Review of Books
- Designers Review of Books, reviews of new (and sometimes old) design books. Just launched, but already looks very promising.
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- A List Apart: Issue 272
- A List Apart: Issue 272, What will it take to make web video accessible by default? And can a 404 page do more than just tell users something went wrong? Articles by Joe Clark and Dean Frickey.
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- Nov 14
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- New bike racks in NYC
- The New York City Department of Transportation announces the winners of their bike rack design competition. First place goes to Hoop, by Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve from Copenhagen. 5,000 of the winning racks are expected to be installed over the next three years. I love how they installed the 10 finalists in Astor Place to see how people used them.
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- Nov 12
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- Looking at Libraries
- Valérie Madill re-imagines book organization in libraries by using large color coded labels that contain all pertinent book information.
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- Nov 11
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- Zombies Don’t Run
- The dead and the quick, Simon Pegg (of Shaun of the Dead fame) pleads for some sanity in keeping our zombies of the shambling variety. I couldn’t agree more. (via CP)
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- Muppet Whatnot Workshop
- Design, build, and buy your own personalized Muppet. So badass.
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- Nov 10
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- Art or not
- Is graphic design art? You make the call.
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- Illustrated Horror Film Posters
- Illustrated Horror Film Posters, Part 1 and Part 2. Many of these remind me of my childhood and nights spent with friends to have mini horror movie marathons. Lots of classic stuff like Death Race 2000, House, Dawn of the Dead, Re-Animator, Escape from New York, and tons of Jaws ripoffs.
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- Logo, Objectified
- Evolution of the Objectified logo (design by Build) for Gary Hustwit’s upcoming documentary of the same name.
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- Nov 03
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- Forvo
- Forvo, all the words in the world. Pronounced. So cool.
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- @font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work
- Making Web Fonts Work, Jon Tan on the (sad) state of font embedding online.
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- Candy Code
- Some kids employ a candy code while trick-or-treating to help others find the good stuff. Similar to the hobo code.
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