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November 17, 2014
Poof, the First Disappearing App
Pretty funny demo reel of sorts from my friend Alex Cornell of Moonbase, who make awesome videos for technology companies and ideas. More at moonbase.com. +
Illustrations for Google’s Calendar App
Google’s new calendar app for Android is perhaps the best yet demonstration of how illustration can be used as a key element in digital product design. Each view has a charming seasonal illustration at the top which expands to fill the left half of the screen in landscape mode on tablets. In the app’s “schedule”…
November 14, 2014
Too Many Cooks
After being heads down with launching Wildcard for most of the past week or so, I’ve been debating this morning over whether or not to post this sublime video from Adult Swim. It already has over two million views on YouTube, so it certainly doesn’t need the infinitesimal boost that my blog would give it.…
November 13, 2014
Wildcard in the App Store Today
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may recall that over the past year or so I’ve written periodically about the emerging interaction paradigm of cards. During that time, I’ve also been toiling away in an office in downtown Manhattan, focused on this challenge of bringing what you might call “the card web”…
November 12, 2014
Manuals 2 by Unit Editions
London’s Unit Editions publishes some of the very best design books anywhere. In their few short years in operation, they’ve elevated the form to an extraordinary degree, producing some of the most exquisite, well-written studies of various aspects of the graphic design industry ever to hit bookshelves. Not long ago, they published “Manuals 1,” described…
November 11, 2014
A Teacher’s Resignation Letter
This resignation letter by Gerald J. Conti, a veteran social studies teacher formerly of Westhill High School in Syracuse, NJ, ran in The Washington Post last year, but earlier this month it was picked up and re-run by Daily Kos and has since attracted some renewed attention. Conti had been teaching for twenty-seven years but…
A Time-lapse View of the Sun
Remember how your parents told you should never look directly at the sun? The Internet lets you defy them once again. This video combines over 17,000 images of the sun shot at 4K (read: very high) resolution by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, captured just a few weeks ago, between 14 Oct and 30 Oct. It’s…
November 10, 2014
Quarto from Hoefler & Co.
Quarto is a new serif typeface from Hoefler & Co.. It was inspired by the work of Flemish punchcutter Hendrik van den Keere, and the marketing copy is a tour de force in inventive ways of saying interesting things about the uneventfulness of type design: Its consistently dark strokes are offset by bright, crisp serifs;…
Sky Series
Eric Cahan’s beautiful “Sky Series” project captures sunrises and sunsets from a variety of geographic locations. Cahan takes pains to include the exact GPS coordinates where each of them were taken, and even links to that location on Google Maps. The colors are remarkably rich, which might lead some to assume that they’ve been extensively…
November 7, 2014
Thoughts on Interstellar
On Wednesday night I got to go see Christopher Nolan’s new film, “Interstellar,” on IMAX in a 70MM film print. This is a big, big movie, but not in the way that we’ve come to think of big movies—there’s a tremendous gap between “Interstellar” and the blockbusters that dominate cinemas in the summer, and almost…
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