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Work Sans

This 2014 typeface designed by Wei Huang is a contemporary grotesque that comes in ten screen-optimized weights, ranging from Hairline…

A Huge Wheel Made from 36 iMac Boxes

Oregon’s George Fox University IT department took three dozen iMac boxes and turned them into a human-sized wheel, then made…

Design Tools News No. 5

A quiet week or so in design tools news, but still plenty to note, including the beta of a new…

Annual Wes Anderson Art Show

This weekend at the Joseph Gross Gallery in New York City: the sixth in an apparently annual series of art…

What Is Film Noir?

This infographic from The British Film Institute is a handy, thorough overview of the basic tenets of film noir, a…

Wet Hot American Summer

Today is a day that I never thought would come: the cult classic film “Wet Hot American Summer” is now…

iTunes Is the Locus of Everything Apple Is Doing Wrong

For longer than most I was an apologist for Apple’s iTunes software. It did the job for me, even in…

A Prosthetic Arm That Works with LEGO Bricks

The IKO is intended to be “a bridge between a playful experience and an everyday functional prosthetic system.” Basically it’s an artificial arm designed for kids that works with LEGO bricks. It was designed by Carlos Arturo Torres during a six-month internship at LEGO’s Future Lab, a research and development group. The IKO’s socket houses…

New York Magazine’s Cosby: The Women

This week’s issue of New York features what will likely be considered the most significant magazine cover of the year. It depicts thirty-five women speaking out about their claims of assault against comedian Bill Cosby, all photographed in stark, uncompromising black and white. The simply arranged composition is a powerful form of visual accounting; it…

Kids React to the First iPod

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