Expectations
John Siracusa writes a wise post for the old-school Stevenote diehards to read and meditate upon.
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John Siracusa writes a wise post for the old-school Stevenote diehards to read and meditate upon.
Wired Magazine — The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry.
Simply put, this is the best Mac software deal in history: 1password ($29.95), CoverSutra ($22.00), Cha-Ching ($40.00), iStopMotion ($49.00), Awaken ($12.95), Speed Download ($25.00), AppZapper ($12.95), TaskPaper ($18.95), CSSEdit ($29.95), Snapz Pro X ($69.00) and Pixelmator ($59.00) – $368.75 value for $49.00.
Typography, from Stanley Kubrick’s favorite font to the cover design of The Catcher in the Rye in Michael Bierut’s video interview.
Who do you think it might hate designers? Take the quote: “Stealing some hundreds of euros is by far MUCH more work than any designer will accomplish in his/her whole life.” This kind of people.
It is a real quotation from a blog. And stare in the abyss.
When the book cover bets against its content — the typographic joke of the year.
This type has been bastardised and other “visual enforcement kit parts.” Genius!
Need some nice stock photos? Buy Getty Images. Only $1.5bn and you’re all set.
One incredibly smart traffic-management philosophy: reclaim the common sense and courtesy. Tear down the street curbs and get rid of the signs. Make people drive slower. Via DO.
Play the tiny Passage game for 5 minutes and then die. Read the creator’s statement, before and The Game of Life in WSJ after. Via Kottke.
“Uploading a movie to YouTube is the simplest thing in the world. This can be proved by observing that the kind of people who do it most are often barely sentient.” Stephen Fry, Compact cameras have arrived at That Stage.
Adrian Shaughnessy writes an article that was long overdue. Read Expectations Confounded at CR Blog.
Curious Ikea Futura punctuation marks, Gruber-style.
“It’s amazing how future Microsoft products beat current Apple products time and time again, isn’t it?” The Macalope blog. Via DF.
Play some Tetris, meet new people.
Celebrities doing what we really, secretly, want to see them doing. Amazing.
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