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Design Tools News Vol. 2

After I wrote my first design tools news roundup last week I had a momentary bout of panic. Even though it seems like there’s a lot of news in this arena, maybe in truth there isn’t really all that much happening each week? As it turns out, there was no reason to worry. As I…

Siri on Cookie Monster

If you ask Siri the question “What is zero divided by zero?” you’ll get a humorous answer in which Cookie Monster figures prominently. Go ahead, give it a try. Via toughpigs.com. + Share Facebook Twitter Google+

Meet Apple Music

I upgraded my iPhone and my Mac tonight so that I can run the new Apple Music service. Setting aside for now the fact that with this major upgrade iTunes and the iOS Music app have have both reached new levels in tortuously convoluted user experiences, here are some of the things I encountered. First,…

Job Spotlight: The Coral Project

Despite its name, The Coral Project is not focused on marine biology. Rather, it’s a collaboration between Mozilla, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and it’s funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Its ambitious and worthy goal is to “improve communities on news sites through open-source…

Collages by Raphaël Vicenzi

Self-taught artist Raphaël Vicenzi has produced an impressive body of illustration work, frequently for the fashion industry, but I’m partial to the mixed media collages he creates for himself. They’re chaotic yet elegant, favor a black and white color palette, and can be highly abstract, though they rarely lose sight of a figurative center entirely.…

Project Seen

Seen is a novelty typeface with an agenda: as you type, it automatically redacts terms that the NSA might consider threats to security, e.g., privacy, communications, etc. It’s a commentary on the surveillance state, just in case you didn’t catch that. You can try the font in your browser or download it for free at…

Float Table by RockPaperRobot

Brooklyn-based decor studio RockPaperRobot specializes in incredibly clever furniture designs that seem to defy, or at least challenge, the laws of physics. Their Ollie Chair is a fully functional seat that collapses into a washboard-like plane in an instant, and their Brag Table looks like a massive diamond balancing on its smallest point, and yet…

What’s News in Design Tools

So much interesting stuff is happening in design tools that I’m going to start aggregating links here on a weekly basis. This is as much for my benefit as anybody’s, as I find the act of collecting and reposting the news helps me actually better understand the new developments. Here are a few to start.…

Keith Scharwath’s Hand-painted Signs

Designer Keith Scharwath has a sideline in unabashedly retro, warmly rendered typographic paintings—he refers to them modestly as hand-painted signs. His works quote snippets of the American vernacular—action-oriented sentence fragments like “Here comes success” and “Just business”—and his typography evokes the detached, consumerist irony of Pop Art. Gorgeous stuff. A few of his original works…

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A Visit to the Le Creuset Factory

I’m not much of a cook or a foodie, but I have a peculiar fascination with cast iron cookware. Both the craft of forging these crude yet elegant tools and the way that they get more beautiful with age and repeated use are sources of wonder to me. They’re the exact inverse of digital hardware,…

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