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April 2, 2014
Ode to the Sony Walkman
Designer Andrew Kim posted this warm tribute to the Sony Walkman TPS-L2. Released in 1979, the TPS-L2 was the first commercially available model and the beginning of a revolution in gadgetry; Kim claims that it’s “historically more significant than even the iPod.” I’m inclined to agree with him, though I feel that my own opinion…
April 1, 2014
Digital Comics Museum
The Digital Comics Museum claims to be “the best site for downloading free public domain Golden Age Comics.” Its archive holds thousands of scanned and sorted specimens starting from the late 1930s and running roughly through the 1960s, all of them copyright free and in the public domain, so you won’t find famous titles and…
Teehan + Lax + Sketch 3
Just announced yesterday: the Toronto design studio’s famous iOS 7 templates will ship as a part of the forthcoming Sketch 3 update. This makes perfect sense; personally, I find myself opening the templates several times a week, and when I move to a new machine, they are among the first things I download. In his…
March 31, 2014
Opening Day
From Barry Bearak’s profile of New York Yankees rookie pitcher Masahiro Tanaka in The New York Times. Photograph by Edward Linsmier. +
March 28, 2014
This Is a Generic Brand Video
This video interpretation of a McSweeney’s satire of advertising platitudes is hilarious and entertaining. With uncanny accuracy, it bitingly sends up every one of the countless beautifully shot and soulfully narrated declarations of corporate “values” that have littered television airwaves for decades, revealing how empty, cynical and dishonest they are. The punchline is that this…
March 27, 2014
Agata Marszalek, Illustrator
If you like film and you’re not reading The Dissolve you’re missing out. They’re producing fantastic content; not just news and reviews but also superb overviews of bodies of work, like this career overview of the Coen Brothers. They’re also commissioning some terrific artwork for this content, like this one by illustrator Agata Marszalek. Marszalek’s…
How to Name Things
When I came across this link from Victor Pineiro of Big Spaceship, I was skeptical of how much it could really tell me about the highly subjective, amorphous process of naming products. But I was pleasantly surprised; at the very least, it offers a set of very helpful resources for generating naming ideas, including a…
March 26, 2014
No Your City
“No Your City,” from director Nicolas Heller (son of Steve Heller) is a series of short documentaries about the odd characters that populate New York City. This first episode focuses on an East Village rickshaw driver who dresses up as Spider-Man. It’s just under six minutes long, but having once lived in the East Village…
Sketch 3 Imminent
When I first tried Bohemian Coding’s unfortunately named but altogether amazing Sketch, my eyes lit up, and I recognized immediately that this was the user interface design tool for which I had been waiting for years. It combined the precision of a raster editing application like Photoshop with the versatility of a vector editing application…
March 25, 2014
NYC Freedom Tower BASE Jump
This first-person video footage of two (of three) illicit BASE jumps off the top of New York’s Freedom tower is heart stopping. It took place under the cover of night last September and, thanks to the vicarious wonder of the GoPro camera, follows one of the jumpers from the top of the tower all the…
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