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design

Coolest Web Interface I’ve Seen In A Loooooong Time

December 3, 2008

Architects & designers are notorious for creating worlds that would, in theory, be pretty cool to live in but in reality are total pains in the ass. The website for Diller Scofidio + Renfro is no such thing; this is the coolest Web interface I’ve seen in a long time. By being new, it is [...]

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Window Shop Is A Really Nice UI from Amazon

November 6, 2008

Here’s a really nice UI design for Window Shop from Amazon. Unlike many pretty-but-useless designs I’ve seen, this actually gives you the experience you expect from the name. I’m impressed! It’s also the first solid answer I’ve seen to Apple’s Cover Flow.
Check it out: www.windowshop.com

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Nanobama

November 4, 2008

This is really cool!

“We can make pretty much any 2-D pattern by this technique,” Hart said.
But in honor of the election, Hart’s lab applied their technique to the now-ubiquitous image of Obama’s face created by Shepherd Ferry.
The only overtly political text that accompanies the images on nanobama.com is the tagline, “vote for science.”
Nanobama: World’s Tiniest Candidate Portrait at [...]

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Awesome Radiohead Video

October 29, 2008

What a sweet application of the helmet cam. How very appropriate that Radiohead would turn the camera inward for this video.
Jigsaw Falling Into Place »

Radiohead |MTV Music

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A Manga Hero Changes the Wine Market

October 23, 2008

It’s always amazing to see art & culture turn the tides of commerce.
SIPPING a 2001 Bordeaux from Château Mont Perat, a bead of sweat trickling down his left cheek, Shizuku Kanzaki is suddenly overwhelmed with images of a turntable, guitars and Freddie Mercury.
“It’s powerful,” he says of the wine, “but it also has a meltingly [...]

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Linotype FontExplorer X

September 30, 2008

When you have thousands of fonts to deal with, you need a good management tool. On a Mac, you have Font Book to work with. Maybe you’ll like this better:

Linotype FontExplorer X

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