"It's part of a research project with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University that focuses on how unverified information and rumor are reported in the media. Emergent is a real-time rumor tracker." Via MeFi.![]()
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How to Stop Time
The NY Times confirms what we have put into practice for years here at CP, Procrastination leads to creativity.![]()
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Six Acres Portrait on DC's National Mall
"The 'face-scape' was created by Cuban-American urban artist Jorge Rodriquez-Gerarda for the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. 'It's not the face of America,' he says, 'it's one of the hundreds of millions of possible faces that America has.![]()
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In Defense of Spoilers
For my Mom, who reads the ending of books first, In Defense of Spoilers.![]()
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Studio 360 LYT4
"Imagine the classic game Telephone, but using graphic design." Studio 360 on our Layer Tennis. Thanks for that.![]()
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Bean
Photoshop is used for lots of silly things these days, so it's nice to see important, critical work in the field of Art History being done.![]()
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Underground Wind Bulbs
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David Fincher-And the Other Way is Wrong
David Fincher- And the Other Way is Wrong.![]()
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Epic Yearbook Photo
The cat is like "I OWN this photo", the dog? Not so much.![]()
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Halloween costumes parents made for their children
Good Lord, I may not sleep tonight after looking at some of these terrifying Halloween costumes parents made for their children.![]()
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Bowie photos at Paschke
If the Chicago MCA Bowie exhibit is overcrowded, check out photographer Steve Schapuiro's exhibit at the Paschke Art Center, featuring portraits of Bowie, Lou Reed, and Andy Warhol.![]()
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Bloody Brilliant
Bloody brilliant and banned by the BBC.![]()
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Type on Screen
By the 1990s, CD-ROMs and the Internet turned computer screens into the final display substrate. Those were the dark ages of on-screen typography. Designers traded in low-res compromise, bending to the will of fours, the tyranny of the pixel. Endless hours were spent on what my colleagues and I affectionately called “fat-bitting.” It was an activity hardly worth the effort. We were masons, chipping and shifting single pixels — fixing what the screen did to otherwise well intentioned letterforms. “I could be at the bar, but no… I have to fat-bit this shitty logo.”
But the clients loved the attention to detail. We took pride in pixel craft.
Fast forward to the present and Ellen Lupton’s latest book “Type on Screen
This book will teach you all manner of topics including type selection, web fonts, interface design, responsive design, and SVGs. There is an enlightening chapter on generative design with type and code which left me thinking about the future possibilities of type.
Reading about type in this context is inspiring. For those of us who have lived through the evolution of the craft, Type On Screen is an epic hair-metal ballad — a celebration of living squarely in the age of enlightenment of on-screen typography.
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Reviewed by Theo Rosendorf.
Type on Screen was authored by graduate students and faculty of MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) and edited by Ellen Lupton. It’s available in paperback with an ebook and PDF coming soon. See the Type on Screen website for more info. Buy Type on Screen
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Reviewed: Friday Likes 101: From Stockholm Design Lab, OCD, and RoAndCo
From Stockholm Design Lab, OCD, and RoAndCo
Still reeling from last week's Brand New Conference, this edition of Friday Likes is devoted to three recent projects from some of our speakers with work from Stockholm, New York, and New York.
Spritmuseum by Stockholm Design Lab
Formerly known as Vin & sprithistoriska museet ("Wine and Spirit Museum"), this Stockholm organization recently relocated to a pair of eighteenth-century naval sheds and changed its name to the much shorter and friendlier Spritmuseum. The new logo, designed by Stockholm Design Lab, takes advantage of the serendipitous shape found on the facade of the two buildings: a martini glass. Brilliant, humorous, and Swedish as hell, the minimalist logo and Absolut-esque wordmark — the museum houses Absolut's art collection — make for a great cocktail as the basis of the identity, which is then infused with a bunch of other eccentric visual approaches like chemical formulas, floating bubbles, giant plants, and more — perhaps even going too far in different directions. Nonetheless: they had me at incandescent-lit martini glass. See full project / A few more images
Harlem EatUp! by OCD | Original Champions of Design
Set to take place for the first time in May of 2015, Harlem EatUp! will be a "four-day festival in Harlem, New York, celebrating the food, culture, and spirit of East, Central, and West Harlem." The logo, literally cobbled together by New York-based OCD | Original Champions of Design, features modular typography and iconography that builds up, down, and sideways to create a joyous pattern that can accommodate diverse messaging and communication needs. It's all kinds of blocky, colorful, and flexible, capturing the denseness and energy of Harlem. Not a lot of applications yet but I'm sure as the event nears we'll see more of it built out and served up. See full project here.
Seilenna by RoAndCo
A new line of swimwear by designer Annelies De Rouck, Seilenna presents itself with a cabana chic identity designed by New York-based RoAndCo through a rugged setting sun graphic in a beautiful coral-like color, paired with a no nonsense sans-serif for the wordmark, and a serif spelling out "swimwear" tightly cropped and split on the top and bottom of business cards and hang tags. The expected level of print ideas and print production from RoAndCo make these seemingly disparate identity elements work together like fish in water. See full project.
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Noted: New Logo for Nasdaq
Now Trading as ITSUX
(Est. 1971) "NASDAQ is a leading provider of trading, exchange technology, information and public company services across six continents. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, NASDAQ enables customers to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today's global capital markets. As the creator of the world's first electronic stock market, its technology powers more than 70 marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. NASDAQ is home to more than 3,400 listed companies with a market value of over $8 trillion and more than 10,000 corporate clients."
Design by: No idea. Any leads?
Opinion/Notes: It's hard to beat the previous logo: bold, business-minded, kick-ass "Q". The new logo kicks off with a dime-a-dozen ribbon monogram in a heavy gradient. It's not terrible-horrible, it's just boring and generic. The only nice quality about it is the baby blue color being on the inside, kind of like a nice lining on a suit but the gradient just kills it. The wordmark, set in title case, making you forget that NASDAQ once stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations" — I don't mind the de-acronym-ization — is rendered in another weak, Dax-like font style that I've grown to dislike more and more. Overall this is safe, unambitious, and easily forgettable.
Related Links: "Ignite Your Ambition" microsite
What's Behind the New Nasdaq
Video about Nasdaq (logo animation at the end)
Select Quote: As you may have noticed from this new website, the OMX is no longer part of the Nasdaq name. We’ve taken this path because customer feedback has shown that the Nasdaq name has such high awareness and positive associations that it can stand on its own.
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Linked: Most Mentioned Brands in Hip-hop
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