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ThinkTank - Ideal City of the 21st Century
Daniel Libeskind will lead the first course through the free online school offshoot of Leuphana University in Germany: "ThinkTank: Ideal City of the 21st Century."
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My Kind of American Exceptionalism
Flying used to mean something.And before People Express Airlines remade air travel into the equivalent of a bus ride, before the mediascape overinformed us about every possible destination, before the...
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Rule 154: Protect this book
Kids book of rules goes viral, because kids are adorable and often smarter than adults.
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Star Map
Not sure where he found it but this 1887 December & January Star Map Nicholas Felton posted sure is beautiful.
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City of Stars
Tangentially related to the last, Clémentine Tantet presents the Paris Metro Map as an astronomical star chart. It's a beautifully simple idea and executed deftly.
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Wee Nudge
Wee Nudge collects articles related to the web design process and aims to help you better explain and talk to your clients. Read articles on whitespace, wireframes or spec work. Excited to see this...
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Friday Link Pack
This giant Barry McGee mural in Brooklyn is just down the street form my house. So, awesome. - The Chinese have bumper icecarts, taking iceskating to a whole new level! - This made me laugh, but my mom...
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Underground
"He felt so strongly about the weight of the design that when another student of his agreed to create an accompanying set of bold capitals, Johnston wouldn't speak to him for decades afterward." Edward...
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Chicagoist's Best Dive Bar List
Related to below: Chicagoist took some umbrage with Chicago's picks for best dive bars and compiled a list of their own. Having been to at least half of these, I can attest to their "dive"...
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Brainerd
"It was just that we liked the sound of the word- there's no hidden meaning." The Coen Brothers chat about Fargo.
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der Film
Joanne Meister's excellent piece on Josef Müller-Brockmann for ILT reminded me of a CSS-based experiment I made, in 2004. Time flies.
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'Real Skifi'
Too much fun. Real Skifi, a Finnish web series full of urban skiing, each episode opening with a sketch before getting into the tricks.
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Dmitry Vasyukov's 'Happy People' Trailer
The trailer for Dmitry Vasyukov's four-hour Russian television documentary Happy People before it was re-tooled, overdubbed (?!?!), and re-narrated for Werner Herzog's co-directed, feature-length Happy...
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Symbols Grouped by Theme
If you have an eight-year-old girl and visit a lot of garage sales, this is super-handy: Symbols Grouped by Theme
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Fresh Prince Theme, Google Translated
Nothing new here (years ago Wakiza Gamez and I recorded a version of Britney Spears' I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman using the same technique), but it certainly is fun: the Fresh Prince theme song,...
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