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September 5, 2014
Dyson 360 Eye Robot Vacuum Cleaner
After resisting robot home vacuum technology for years, Dyson is poised to enter the market with the 360 Eye. The company spent sixteen years and US$47 million dollars developing it, or so it says. The promotional video makes a good case for why it took so long and so many dollars: If priced reasonably, I’m…
Fort Type Family
As counterprogramming to yesterday’s post about Tolyer, a comprehensive, affordable but—as it turned out—a not very well designed sans-serif typeface on sale at YouWorkForThem, I thought I’d offer something much classier. Here is the newish Fort typeface designed by Jeremy Mickel, available from Vllg. It’s gorgeous, and like Tolyer comes in loads of variants—forty-eight fonts…
September 4, 2014
Dynamic Buttons in Sketch
One of the most tedious things about designing interfaces for a living is creating buttons. For example, you might start with one like this: Soon, you’ll be making variants on it, like these: When I use Photoshop for this work, each variant requires manually adjusting the left and right padding as the text expands or…
Tolyer
Chatnarong Jingsuphatada’s versatile type family Tolyer is on sale at You Work for Them for just US$15 until Sep 12. The breadth of the family is impressive: it comes in five weights—Thin, Light, Book, Regular and Bold—with each weight coming in oblique as well as Roman flavors, and within each weight and style, also comes…
September 3, 2014
Une Bobine
I got this combination Lightning cable/iPhone stand some time ago but only recently started using it regularly. The product is as terrific as it is poorly named—it’s called Une Bobine, which in spite of meaning “coil” in French did nothing for me mnemonically, and I had to consult Twitter to be reminded. (Trying to remembering…
Empty States
This appositely named Tumblr blog collects screen shots of software before users have input their own data. Its goal is to encourage designers to “delight users by designing the empty states”—details matter. Here’s an example from Conjure.io. See more at Emptystat.es. +
September 2, 2014
Logos and Unintentional Readings
The Hershey Company, unofficial sponsors of diabetes, just redesigned their logo. Below are the old mark, at left, and the new one: I have to admit that the simplicity of the redesigned logo surprised me. It seems to run counter to recent trends in identity overhauls in that it throws away the pretense of dimensionality…
August 31, 2014
Skyscraper Wallpapers
Once a month starting back in January, the site I Like Architecture has been publishing these beautifully stylized portraits of famous contemporary skyscrapers from around the world, lovingly crafted by French illustrator Romain Trystram. Their exaggerated color palettes and simplified details emphasize the sci-fi, “architecture of the absurd” quality of building trends. Here is a…
August 30, 2014
Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir
The award-winning photographer Fan Ho spent many years capturing the grit, congestion and vibrancy of mid-Twentieth Century Hong Kong. A selection of his photos have been on display at San Francisco International Airport’s Terminal 2, though apparently they’ll come down at the end of the month, so there are just a few days left to…
Roger Angell’s Farewell to Derek Jeter
The “poet laureate of baseball,” Roger Angell has been translating the sport’s milestones-just-passed into vivid, crystalline reminiscences for decades. In the latest issue of The New Yorker he bids farewell to the Yankees’ Derek Jeter, who is retiring this fall. Though the iconic shortstop isn’t quite gone yet, the league has spent the better part…
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