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August 21, 2014
Thuy at Five
Here’s a picture of my daughter only a few days after she was born, back in 2009. And here’s a picture of her today, on her fifth birthday. I can’t believe it. Happy birthday, kiddo. +
August 20, 2014
The Muppets Cover The Beastie Boys
In the spirit of last week’s post about a mashup of Dr. Seuss and the Ramones, as an addendum to my post back in May remembering Jim Henson, and in keeping with August’s uncanny ability to inhibit truly substantial blogging, I present to you Animal, Beaker and the Swedish Chef “covering” the Beastie Boys’ 1992…
A Twitter Card That Does Something
Cards as an interaction paradigm took a small but significant step forward today with this tweet from Acura. It introduces interactivity to Twitter’s previously rather rudimentary definition of the form; the card embedded in this tweet lets you actually “configure” an Acura TLX—choose your preferred engine, steering and color—and then tweet out the result. It’s…
August 19, 2014
UI Designs for “Guardians of the Galaxy”
This is London creative agency Territory Studio’s showreel of user interface concepts developed for this summer’s “Guardians of the Galaxy.” I’m not sure I see very much that’s new here, but it’s good, fun stuff—much like the movie itself. Territory’s Vimeo account also has some longer shots from the movie, including this footage showing “weather…
August 18, 2014
Untold Stories Behind Classic Logos
Out next month from Laurence King Publishing: “TM: The Untold Stories Behind 29 Classic Logos,” by Mark Sinclair. The book takes 29 internationally recognized logos and explains their development, design, usage, and purpose. Based upon interviews with the designers responsible for these totems, and encompassing the marks from a range of corporate, artistic, and cultural…
Portrayals of Texting in Film
Tony Zhou produces wonderful short video essays about film under the name Every Frame a Painting. I wrote about his piece on Michael Bay’s “Bayhem” brand of filmmaking last month. It’s well worth a look (afterwards you might read my thoughts on Michael Bay too). His latest essay is called “A Brief Look at Texting…
August 17, 2014
Typo.io
Typ.io is a running collection of Web typography specimens that aims to identify particularly effective pairings of web fonts. Its goal is to “know what font goes with what?” among the still relatively limited selection of typefaces designers can specify for the web. Combine this with Justin Van Slembrouck’s fantastic Type Sample utility, and you’re…
Escher Girls
This is a blog to archive and showcase the prevalence of certain ways women are depicted in illustrated pop media, specifically how women are posed, drawn, distorted, and/or sexualized out of context, often in ridiculous, impossible or disturbing ways that sacrifice storytelling. The site focuses primarily on the hyper-real illustrative vocabulary of comic books, which…
August 15, 2014
Virginie Morgand
I’m completely captivated by the work of French illustrator Virgnie Morgand. Even when viewed on the screen her work has a wonderfully nostalgic feeling, like crude color printing on newsprint. Lots of contemporary illustrators achieve a similar look by adding digitally faked streaks, spots and mis-registration of color fields—techniques which while effective can come across…
Rise of the Super Drug Tunnels
This short film from Reason takes a look at the struggle against the ever increasing number of tunnels being dug by drug cartels to transport drugs from Mexico into the United States. It focuses on Joe Garcia, a deputy special agent with the Department of Homeland Security and head of the San Diego Tunnel Task…
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