So you know, how to play airplane peekaboo.![]()
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Airplane Peekabook
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Chicago Beer Bars
An illustrated poster showcasing a selection of Chicago's beer bars.![]()
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Mudbloods
For MS and BB, the trailer for the Quidditch documentary MUDBLOODS.![]()
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To Be Missed
“Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don’t show up. They want to be missed when they’re gone.”
- Seth Godin
Can ordinary people become leaders?
(via explore)
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Trailer for Dinosaur 13
Trailer for the documentary Dinosaur 13.![]()
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Streets: New York City
Lovely, Streets: New York City.![]()
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10 Foot High Jumping Stilts
Thought about getting these for the studio but 10 Foot High Jumping Stilts+BB=ER visit for sure.![]()
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Friday Link Pack
- 75 Years In The Making: Harvard Just Released Its Epic Study On What Men Need To Live A Happy Life
- Vintage pictures of people surfing. Love this.
- Before you tell yourself that your idea is too ambitious, too unrealistic, too pie-in-the-sky; remember that once there were no planes. There were no rockets to take us into space. There were no computers: Yes to Moonshot Thinking.
- “The most productive people work for 52 minutes at a time, then break for 17 minutes before getting back to it.” The Rule of 52 and 17: It’s Random, But it Ups Your Productivity
- Weekend is here, that means I’ll be perusing Yummly for weekend recipes.
- 23 defining traits of a good teacher (boss, mentor, friend)
- It’s a rug. It’s a coffee table. It’s both!
- Mathematically correct breakfast.
- Lucky Lou – this made me smile. Totally showing my kids tonight!
- The Natural History Museum now hosts sleepovers for grown-ups. This is so cool.
- Uh, yeah, it’s business time! (via)
- Turn any iOS divide into a free monitoring camera. (via)
- Scaling Global Forgiveness One Email at a Time
- Excellent post on third-party Twitter apps. I am particularly intrigued by Happy Friends. Think of it as a mailbox-type reader for Twitter.
- “When Justin discovered that his wife Meghan didn’t want to have any photos taken during her pregnancy, he decided that he still wanted to document the special time. So with a great sense of humor leading the way, Justin hired a professional photographer to take the photos of him instead.”
- When Do Kids Realize They’re Going to Grow Up? The video in this post is so sad and adorable at the same time. So many feels.
- “Sinatra, the singer, actor, director, film producer and conductor, left behind a very detailed will. It was 21 pages long and included a “no contest clause” which prohibited various legal actions, preventing his family from fighting in court. If someone in his family engaged in any prohibited legal actions, they would be completely disinherited.” 3 Lessons to Learn from Celebrity Estate Planning
- “Cool your jets. Take a step back and calmly assess the situation.” – Jen Mussari during this Pencil VS Pixel interview.
- Postcard Club promotes handmade postcard swaps between artists around the world, as well as celebrating the wonderful practice of mail art. (via coudal)
- Your photos on Marshmallows. Seriously.
- I keep coming back to this minimal loft bed. Would love to build something similar for my daughter’s room.
- Do you know that if you post a photo on Instagram with the hashtag #Tattly it will show up on Tattlygram. (assuming there’s a Tattly in the photo, of course)
- Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience.
- Warby Parker in Soho, NYC, is looking to hire a UX Designer
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Road Not Taken
The path followed to the publication of Robert Frost's "Road Not Taken", on today's date in 1915.![]()
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Badass Postal Service Branding
GrandArmy's USPS branding and what might have been, by Mark Wilson.![]()
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Radley Metzger
"...they looked more like posters for European art films than for pornography or sexploitation." Adrian Curry on posters for the sex films of Radley Metzger, aka Harry Paris.![]()
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Dinosaur's Pen
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#64 The virtue of a spider
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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for South Korea
K-brand
In the past two or three years South Korean culture has risen in popularity and awareness throughout the world — from its K-pop stars like Psy to its corporate juggernauts like Samsung — increasing its tourism and business travel. Responsible for spreading "awareness of Korean culture through the strengthening and development of the tourism industry," the Korea Tourism Organization has recently introduced a new destination brand for South Korea. Based on the credit of this brand book (ZIP file) I think the identity has been designed by Interbrand. A detailed microsite for the new brand can be found here.
The new design embodies Korea's creativity and attractiveness, its vibrant and diverse attractions, and its welcoming spirit to all tourists who visit Korea.
Imagine Your Korea microsite
Logo explanation. 
Samples of the traditional clothing saekdong. 
Samples of the ribbons used in some folk dances. 
Logo detail. I'm unsure whether to completely hate it, hate it a little bit, or actually like it a lot. It's certainly different from the typical destination brands that have literally smoothed out all the edges. Here, the rough — okay, really rough — calligraphic style could allude to a still-developing culture that hasn't completely lost all connections to its past and traditions before the advent of technology… it also alludes to a complete disregard for pleasant letterforms. Each specific letter shape is more cringe-worthy than the next, culminating in what may be the worst-shaped "a" I have seen. But I find the reference sources — clothing and folk dance ribbons — charming and well represented. The extended "K" definitely looks like a sleeve from the traditional clothing. It's also kind of a horrible "K" and the rationalization that it's "two arms wide open" make me want to grab them by the wrists, punch the logo with them, and repeat "Why are you hitting yourself?" over and over. The "Imagine your" type in DIN looks too disconnected and tacked on to be very useful or memorable.
Color usage. 
Patterns. 
Print ads.
TV ad. In application there isn't much. There is an attempt at some semi-interesting patterns that for now are just spelled out in the guidelines but don't appear anywhere else. There is also a set of ads that have the slightly more bombastic aesthetic appeal one would expect, with boy band Big Bang footing dreamy landscapes in a smokey cloud. Overall, it's nice to see a less polished and massaged destination brand but, within that same approach, it could have been executed much better.
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Iconic Houses
An animated look at Iconic Houses.![]()
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♥ / Zuki — WordPress Theme by Elmastudio
A big thank you to Elmastudio for sponsoring this week of my RSS Feed.
Elmastudio just launched Zuki — a gorgeous, minimal WordPress theme for magazines, news sites and blogs. With Zuki you can create a beautiful, super flexible front page, by tossing different Recent Posts widgets into the themes front page widget areas. This flexibility makes it almost impossible to find two websites using Zuki that will look exactly the same. So it’s time to get creative!
Of course also don’t miss out on Elmastudios complete WordPress theme collection for further great finds.
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Dark Shuttle Approaching
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A few things #2
What happens when logo contests become rife? Generic logos.
World Caps. “32 individual club-logos on snapback caps. For love of the game.”
An interview with iconic designer Ivan Chermayeff, on Co.Design.
“Sometimes the business side of things — the preparation of getting a client to understand where you’re coming from, and communicating that intelligibly enough so they might agree with you, is often more work than the design work itself.”
Responsive logos. “An exploration into scalable logos for the modern web. Resize your browser (Or rotate your device) to see the reductions based on screen size.”
L.R.S., or Logo Removal Service. “We excise unwanted brand names, logos, tags, stains, marks etc. In their stead, we create new and magical shapes, using fresh colors and contrasting thread.” Via Quipsologies.
Previously: A few things #1
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Remembering The First World War's Fallen Soldiers
800,000 ceramic poppies turn the Tower of London's moat red.![]()
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