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August 14, 2014
Apple on Diversity
Apple released a kind of status update on its current diversity initiatives yesterday. The numbers are better than I expected, and CEO Tim Cook’s statement is encouragingly frank: Apple is committed to transparency, which is why we are publishing statistics about the race and gender makeup of our company. Let me say up front: As…
Czarist Russia in Color
These color photographs from Czarist-era Russia—one hundred years ago—are stunning. See more photos here, and see a translation of the page here. +
August 13, 2014
Graphic Design Industry Advertising from Yesteryear
Print Magazine’s Imprint blog recently ran a short series of posts collecting advertisements aimed at the graphic design industry from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Together, they make for a revealing tour through a neglected facet of design history. The post gathered together almost ninety examples of magazine ads for photostats, dye transfers, photo lettering,…
August 12, 2014
Tic Toc Transit
Tic Toc Transit is an iPhone app for New York City subway riders. It provides timetables for all of the system’s lines; just choose your station and you’re presented with countdowns for the next four trains arriving in a sharp, minimal interface. I’ve wanted this kind of data for years; alas this is still not…
August 11, 2014
The Ramones Plus Dr. Seuss
The best kind of art is the kind that rewards you with something new each time you come back to experience it again. Since becoming a dad, I’ve learned that many things from my childhood have this quality, like The Muppets, which I wrote about back in May, and Dr. Seuss, which I guess everyone…
August 10, 2014
The New Stock Photography
Technology has made the creation and distribution of images so cheap today that it’s amazing what can be had for almost nothing. You can now buy stock photography for as little as one dollar per image over at the newish Dollar Photo Club. There are some caveats: the selection is not vast, the quality is…
August 8, 2014
Film Advisors Inc.
Two former members of the Motion Picture Association of America’s Film Ratings Board have left to start a company called Film Ratings Inc. Indiewire has an article about them here and you can listen to them talking on this episode of KCRW’s The Business. The company’s mission is to help filmmakers and studios navigate the…
August 7, 2014
Eagulls Cover Stone Roses
English band Eagulls’ self-titled debut is one of my favorite records of the year. It recalls the disjointed, frigid howls of post-punk Britain. Here is the band covering The Stone Roses’ glorious “I Wanna Be Adored,” an anthem from an altogether different period in British music; in its time this song was the sound of…
Judgmental Maps
One of the first “grown-up” things I remember learning as a teenager is that maps are never unbiased, that they always represent the predilections of their cartographers—or their cartographers’ sponsors. You can’t create a flat map without distorting proportions and therefore misrepresenting the relative sizes of continents and countries, for instance, and even globes imply…
August 6, 2014
Voter Fraud Is a Fraud
Writing in The Washington Post today, Justin Levitt, a professor at the Loyola University Law School, discusses the results of his comprehensive study of votes cast in U.S. elections over the last fourteen years. Out of over a billion votes cast in local, state and national elections, Levitt found just thirty-one cases of voter impersonation—the…
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