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October 2, 2014
The Year 1882’s Year 2000
I didn’t realize that Chris Wild’s Retronaut, hands down the best running retrospective of yesteryear on the Internet, has moved to Mashable, but apparently that’s the case. Its archives to date can still be seen at retronaut.com, but Wild is now a part of the Mashable editorial team, and henceforth will be posting unearthed time…
October 1, 2014
Subtraction.com Now Has Twitter Cards
From the Department of Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is: this site now supports Twitter cards. This basically means that I’ve added a bit of meta information to each post so that if a link to that post appears in any tweet, that tweet will automatically attach a “rich” preview of the content. When…
September 30, 2014
iPhone 6 Looks
This is kind of a tough exercise, but look at the image above, which displays every currently shipping iPhone, and try if you can to momentarily disregard the size of each, as well as their respective technical specifications. If you can pull that off, then ask yourself which of these four models looks the newest,…
Little White Lies
For almost a decade, the London magazine Little White Lies has been doing some wonderful stuff at the intersection of film, publishing and design. Its covers alone are a marvel; each one features a heavily stylized, head on portrait of an actor or actress, who is the ostensible subject of that issue. They’ve even generously…
September 29, 2014
Mike Monteiro on “You’re My Favorite Client”
Designer Mike Monteiro, co-founder of Mule Design and owner of a Twitter account, has just written his second book: “You’re My Favorite Client.” It’s out tomorrow from A Book Apart, but unlike the many other design- and development-centric titles from that publisher, this book’s primary audience isn’t designers, but clients. Monteiro has written a how-to…
September 26, 2014
How to Retire in Style
Last night, in his final at-bat at Yankee Stadium, Derek Jeter hit a bottom-of-the-ninth, game-winning single. Unbelievable. More extensive video at mlb.com. Over at The New Yorker, Roger Angell also has a poignant recap of the game. +
September 25, 2014
Vinyl Figurines from A Large Evil Corporation
U.K. animation studio A Large Evil Corporation has produced a series of vinyl homages to their favorite entertainment characters and famous figures. Lots of people do this sort of thing, but I was struck by how uncannily accurate these were, even with all of the caricatured liberties that the studio took in their designs. I…
Folio Covers from the 1970s and ’80s
SPD has a selection of covers from a brilliant art directorial run in the 1970s and 80s by Steve Phillips for Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management. The work is full of big, bold, high-concept, advertising-style imagery, all of which play on various tropes of print media. It’s the kind of stuff we probably won’t…
September 24, 2014
Angel City
This is a beautiful video by Gavin Heffernan, made from several mesmerizing time-lapse shoots of the Los Angeles cityscape captured on Canon EOS 6D DSLR cameras. As I watched it, marveling at its visual beauty, I was struck by its fantastic score, how quintessentially L.A. it seemed with its sounds of rushing traffic and echoes…
September 23, 2014
What the End of DVDs Looks Like
It’s hardly a secret that Netflix’s discs by mail service is not long for this world, and that the company is shedding no tears as that business continues to decline. For people who care about cinema, though, and for people who worry that the selection of content readily available to the public is getting less…
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