Kitchen-Table Industrialists
An interesting piece in the New York Times Magazine about the maker revolution in electronics, focussing on small companies producing short-run kits out of improbable locations in Manhattan. The thrust of…
The Element of Surprise
People often think of designers as belonging in their own separate silos. You know, web designer, print designer, graphic designer, even interior designer or architect. Truth is, we're pretty good…
Handwritten by Typographers
An interesting post about the handwriting of Typographers, questioning how their own, most personal way of written communication informs or affects their designs of the building blocks of written communication for…
Wayfinder
Stuart Lambon's open-source typeface Wayfinder is a sans serif optimized for easy reading at speed for wayfinding applications. Free to download and use, includes arrows. (via twitter: @davejorr)
a big, crazy typography problem
Nick Paumgarten's fascinating account of the challenges and considerations that arose in laying out the names of the victims of 9/11 on the ground zero memorial appears in the latest edition…
Visual Twitter
As if Twitter wasn't enough of a time-suck, along comesDribbble, a repository of designer/developer's visual creations. Membership is by invitation only, to keep out the riffraff. But they do let…
Complexity Simplified
I saw a really compelling infographic recently that portrayed how the word of the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden spread via twitter. It turns out that one primary…
Mobile Interpretation
As a follow-up to my recent post on Smartphones and their huge potential for sites and museums, I've collected three examples that use mobile technology in clever and engaging ways…