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June 26, 2014
Google’s Material Design
Google’s newly announced design language is called “Material Design.” It’s an evolution of the company’s Holo framework, made more elegant with closer attention paid to typography and spacing, and injected with healthy new amounts of highly fluid transitional animations. This video demonstrates its highlights, and this creative manifesto declares the high-minded principles that drive it…
This Is Pollock
This is “This Is Pollock,” a beautifully produced, highly readable, witty, 80-page overview of the master abstract expressionist’s career written by Catherine Ingram and illustrated by Peter Arkle. “This Is Pollock” is part of a series from Laurence King Publishing that takes a visual approach to telling the stories of famous artists. Ingram also wrote…
June 24, 2014
Wearables, Fashion and iWatch
Anticipation for Apple’s rumored iWatch is getting higher and higher. In fact, I’m in the market for a new watch, and the idea of a connected, multi-sensored, paradigm-smashing new device is tempting. But I’m also a little skeptical that, if this device ever ships, Apple will be able to deliver something I’ll actually want to…
June 23, 2014
Hollow v. Solid Icons
Last year, when iOS 7 debuted, Aubrey Johnson made a contention that users are slower to recognize hollow icons than solid ones. Curt Arledge decided to put that to the test with a custom-built Rails app that tested participants’ ability to recognize icons of the two types, and ran the trial over 1,000 times. His…
Gearing Up
This is a terrific supercut that sheds some light on the ritualistic film cliché of gearing up for action. Watching these endless recreations of the same actions reveals how unintentionally hilarious and homoerotic most of them are. +
June 22, 2014
Crisp Christie, the Sandwich
My wife and I have some very clever friends who hold an annual sandwich party in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. What’s a sandwich party? The rules are: invent a brand new sandwich, give it a clever name, and make enough of that sandwich to feed “bigger-than-bite-sized pieces” for about twelve people. The result is a usually…
June 20, 2014
Clemente
I only noticed this image of Roberto Clemente painted on the wall at my daughter’s school this morning. I was really captivated by its simplicity, and the way it was positioned exactly at the dividing line between two different colors of tiles. +
Washington Redskins Lose Ruling on Trademarks
Bad news for Dan Snyder, owner of Washington’s NFL franchise, as reported in The New York Times: On Wednesday, a division of the federal government ruled that the Redskins name was disparaging. The team was stripped of federal protections for six of its trademarks. If the ruling stands, then the loss of the trademarks means…
June 19, 2014
Pixel Art Tutorial
This excellent tutorial on how to create art in the “8-bit” mode offers wonderful insight into an obscure genre of visual expression. It lays down many of the aesthetic principles that underpin the rendering of convincing looking objects with restrictive color palettes and limited resolution. It was written by the artist Arne Niklas Jansson, who…
Homeless Fonts
I’m always a little suspicious of philanthropic graphic design projects. The profession is generally so preoccupied with prettying up useless goods to be sold at premium prices that when it endeavors to do something actually worthwhile, the effort often looks superficial and disingenuous. This novel project from The Arrels Foundation seems to have some ring…
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