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August 6, 2014
Officelovin’
This site showcases photos of the beautiful, extravagant, occasionally surprising office spaces of tech and startup companies around the world (though mostly in New York and San Francisco). Officelovin’ reflects the fact that this category of business seems to emphasize the exquisiteness of its interior spaces as badges of pride; in a different era, successful…
Pulp: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets
This is the wonderful poster for director Florian Habicht’s documentary about some combination of the longstanding Britpop band Pulp, the 2012 culmination of its two year world tour, and many of the denizens of the band’s hometown of Sheffield, England. Few other bands would consent to a poster like this, and while I haven’t seen…
August 5, 2014
Xiaomi MIUI
Musician Jarvis Cocker once quipped about the Internet, “I don’t know what it is, but I know it’s very important.” I sort of feel the same way about the technology industry in China, which is growing at a massive rate and breaking all kinds of records. Today I took a closer look at leading Chinese…
John Oliver on Native Advertising
From this past Sunday’s episode of John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight,” a rant on the surging popularity of native advertising as a revenue model for content publishers and news organizations. This is not necessarily on par with Oliver’s best work, but I did find it to be a startling effective splash of cold water thrown…
August 4, 2014
Input from The Font Bureau
This is very interesting. Input is a family of fonts designed expressly for writing code by David Jonathan Ross. The full family includes both monospaced and proportional fonts in a variety of widths, weights, and styles all optimized to improve the coding experience. Unlike most proportional designs, these fonts adopt the helpful attributes of a…
Flatties
I like these icons drawn in the “flat” style for user interface designs, though the fact that they’re in full-color and rendered fairly intricately probably makes them more suitable for illustrations within a product (e.g., onboarding screens) than as functional icons themselves. They’re also probably more at home in the context of Google’s Material Design…
August 1, 2014
Third-party Access to 1Password via iOS 8 Extensions
This is terribly geeky but it’s a huge moment for mobile software: thanks to the new support for extensions in the forthcoming iOS 8, you will soon be able to access your 1Password database from within mobile Safari and third party apps. This video from 1Password publisher AgileBits demonstrates this in action. Access to login…
July 31, 2014
Comic Book Adaptations of 1980s Movies
It’s amazing that for years we have all lived in a reality where these existed, and yet most of us had no idea. What a wonderful world. See pages from these comics at this site. +
The False Promise of “TV Everywhere”
BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield recently got some publicity for documenting what many of us already know: accessing film and television content on an on-demand basis is largely a mess, even for paying cable subscribers. Greenfield blogged about his travails trying to binge-watch the first two seasons of the TV series “The Americans” via various means…
July 30, 2014
The Adobe Illustrator Story
Adobe’s Photoshop is the graphics software brand that successfully crossed over into the zeitgeist, but the company’s Illustrator product was no mean achievement either. This nineteen-minute documentary by Ami Capen tells its story, starting with its antecedents in traditional graphic design (if you remember Koh-I-Noor’s Rapidograph pens, you’ll smile or cringe or both) and through…
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