Khoi Vinh's Blog, page 84

The PANTONE Hotel

I’m surprised by how well PANTONE has managed its brand in recent years. What started as an obscure system for the faithful reproduction of colors in mass media is being progressively transformed into a kind of lifestyle brand where the central idea is simply colors. You can buy all sorts of consumer products bearing the…

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The Best Movie Posters of 2014

Adrian Curry, on his excellent blog about movie posters, has placed this poster for the indie comedy “Frank” at the top of his list of 2014’s best movie posters. It’s a good choice, but his selection for the number two slot is bewildering to me. This is the U.K. poster for the British band Pulp’s…

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1000 Colours

If you are the kind of person who is both a color enthusiast and a masochist, this 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle of the full CMYK gamut was made for you. Each piece of the puzzle is made up of a single color, and your task is to place it in relation to all the other pieces.…

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A Tribute to Outer Space in the Movies

This is a really great supercut of the way outer space has been portrayed in numerous films from “2001: A Space Odyssey” through “Interstellar.” It demonstrates how effective contemporary cinema has been at depicting the beauty of space, even if much of it was imagined and scientifically inaccurate—and even if it was imagined by Michael…

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Kinematics Dress Made with 3D Printing

So-called “generative design studio” Nervous System designed a dress that could be fabricated entirely by a 3D printer—in one shot, with no assembly required afterwards—it emerges as a completed, ready-to-wear garment. The studio refers to the process as “kinematics,” and the dress is actually an intricate network of very small hinges that allows it to…

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Sketch + LayerVault Bundle

If you’re a fan of Bohemian Coding’s Sketch, life is good. Not only is the app regularly updated with meaningful feature improvements and additions, but there’s a steady stream of good news surrounding it, and seemingly all year round, too. The latest, announced today, is that LayerVault is offering a Sketch license for free to…

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Erik Söderberg’s Fractal Experience

Cross-media artist Erik Söderberg created this series of thirty-two animated GIFs exploring geometric forms using 3D modeling software. To minimize download weight, each animation is limited to no more than forty-eight frames, with most around ten to fifteen. Here are five of them. The effect is hypnotic. See the entire set at eriksoderberg.se. +

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How The Strand Bookstore Keeps Going

This is a terrific article that details the continued survival of The Strand, one of New York’s great institutions, and a favorite haunt of mine. Founded in 1927, the store has long boasted of “eighteen miles of books” at its iconic location at the corner of Broadway and 12th Street, in the heart of Manhattan’s…

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Mobile Nesting Dolls

U.K. illustrator and art director Kyle Bean created these clever, charming maquettes of mobile handsets as Russian nesting dolls. It’s about the right time for a project like this, as with the apparent popularity of so-called “phablets” the theme of newer phones getting smaller may not work out so cleanly in the future. More information…

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Slack’s Release Notes

In this age of automatically updating software, you would think that the minor art of writing release notes would be forgotten, especially if you’re a much praised new product riding the wave of skyrocketing growth. Not so in the case of Slack, whose latest release notes are surprisingly, pleasingly witty, even if most people will…

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