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50 Years of Publications, 500 Books, FREE from the Met
If there’s one thing I love more than finding a good book, it might be finding a good book for free. The Metropolitain Museum of Art has made over 500 titles available for free download. A few that caught my eye (and might catch yours): All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 […]
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The Development of Balto | Type Supply
Sure, the x-height changed, the spacing changed, the widths changed, the weight changed and the g changed, but overall? It’s pretty close. After looking at this, I started wondering: Why did it take me over six years to finish this!? To answer that question, I ventured deep into the depths of my hard drive… via […]
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A Typeface for the Underground – London Reconnections
The typeface was, of course, Johnston Sans and, although Eiichi didn’t know it at the time, it was a typeface created by Edward Johnston and unique to the London Underground. It was this typeface that helped motivate him into becoming a typographer and indirectly this that meant when Colin Banks (one of his course assessors […]
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The Typography of Speed — re:form — Medium
Among other very insightful comments, he questioned my decision to bring the terminals [the tip-ends of the ‘S’] all the way around. His point was that it seemed out of character with the style. He was right. So, I went back to trying to figure that out. I opened the terminals back up. Then I […]
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Hexaflexagons
Read more: Wikipedia The discovery of the first flexagon, a trihexaflexagon, is credited to the British student Arthur H. Stone, who was studying at Princeton University in the U.S.A. in 1939. His new paper in America wouldn’t fit in his English binder so he cut off the ends of the paper and began folding them […]
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The British Library’s “Mechanical Curator” million | The Public Domain Review
The British Library’s “Mechanical Curator” million | The Public Domain Review.
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10 Easy Pieces: Wall-Mounted Shelving Systems : Remodelista
10 Easy Pieces: Wall-Mounted Shelving Systems : Remodelista.
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Sam’s Myth
Sam's Myth.
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This is the perfectly likable Instagram image | VentureBeat
With 150 million users sharing 16 billion photos and liking a billion of them every single day, Instagram is getting to be a more and more crowded platform. As such, if you want to stand out, it’s getting harder and harder. After analyzing over eight million images, Curulate found the common elements of shareable, likable […]
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The Fiberglass Chairs: Something of How They Got the Way They Are
Today I bought a set of 14 Krueger fiberglass stacking chairs, found on Craigslist. While I wish they had been Eames, I’m not going to complain; their price and condition makes them great all-around use chairs (and for the price and condition I don’t need to worry about their collect-ability, instead enjoying them for their […]