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A short video covering Firefly Press, a letterpress printing company in Somerville, Massachusetts. For more information on letterpress printing, here’s Wikipedia’s entry.
from kottke.org
and why computers make students sloppy. Specialten.tv shows this wonderful short on manual typesetting with an ending reminiscent of the work of Len Lye and Norman McLaren.
The Journal has been teasing the January 2nd launch of the redesign of the print edition for some time now. Check out the authoritative Reader’s Guide (pdf) to all the new changes. From the always informative Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals.
In related news, the entire WSJ.com site is free to explore today.
Yes, that is advertising covering an escalator handrail. Pingmag looks at 10 tricks of advertisers in the Tokyo subway system.
The NYT on The Great Subway Map War:
Nonetheless, Mr. Vignelli offered a parting thought. “Look what these barbarians have done,” he said as he examined his copy of the current map. “All these curves, all this whispering-in-the-ear of balloons. It’s half-naturalist and half-abstract. It’s a mongrel.”
Blow an hour or so browsing this comprehensive collection of […]
A fascinating concept:
a new form of ‘tangible’ visualization, that is capable of dynamically generating intuitively interpretable physical textures. for instance, a coffee cup’s skin changes into the affordance of a thorn-like texture to prevent the user from handling its extremely hot contents. the heat-sensitive material causes the thorns to rise & visually ‘informs’ the user […]
Design Observer on library organization.
Questionable personal beliefs aside, I have never found the Dewey Decimal Classification system to be an accurate reflection of how books are organized in my own mind — or anybody else’s for that matter. Certainly I understand the DDC’s advantages when when it comes to large-scale collections, but if how we […]
Metroart - an overview of about 40 metro systems across the globe
Courtesy of digg
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2087266,00.html
Apple Computer is 30 years old on April 1. What follows, before you turn the page, is not for geeks, it’s for aesthetes. Apple, with its laptops and iPods, is certainly, from one perspective, a geek thing; but, from another, much more interesting perspective, it’s an art thing, the story of how, even in our […]
Check out these wonderful movie posters from the Polish Art Gallery:
POLISH POSTER - SEEN FROM JAPAN Text by Professor Noboru Matsuura The Polish poster, alongside the Swiss poster, holds a paramount place in the contemporary history of this field of the arts and its development after the Second World War. It flourished especially in the […]
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