MoOM: Blum
Leah Blum has joined the quasi-prestigious Board of Directors of our Museum of Online Museums and we're sending her some gifts to go along with our thanks.
View ArticleI'm an English Professor In a Movie
"Good morning, and welcome to Advanced English Literature— I'm Professor Anglosoundingname. As you can see, I have a mane of silver hair and wear a corduroy blazer with leather elbow patches..." I'm an...
View ArticleCurious City
Yesterday's awesome WBEZ Afternoon Shift segment answering questions about Metra trains, bridgehouses, honorary streets and Chicago's Western Avenue viaduct. More like this please.
View ArticleNerd Trifecta
"Between math, curling and Lego, I have the nerd-trifecta covered." Thanks Marshall.
View ArticleOn the Make
Local note. A great, great find by Chicago Past, a 1931 hand-drawn map designed by Charles Turzak and Henry Chapman for Houghton Mifflin in anticipation of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Rich in detail...
View ArticleMailbox
Hooray! Mailbox is now live in the App Store and reservations are being filled on a first-come, first served basis. (They’re using a reservation system to scale the Mailbox service gracefully.)...
View ArticleCollision Detection
Perceptual shading, mathematical extrusions, optical compensations, clarified forms and collision detection. What's all this then? A joyously nerdy article on drop shadows by H&FJ who have just...
View ArticleHannah Waldron
Hannah Waldron is an artist and designer that shuffles her time between Stockholm and London. Her work is clean, bright, and filled with geometric forms juxtaposed against loose lines, and varied...
View ArticleDaily Dishonesty
Simply wonderful: Daily Dishonesty project by NYC based designer Lauren Hom. You can buy them as prints. I know some folks who would make perfect recipients for the Bacon is a Food Group print. (thank...
View ArticlePagan and Sharp
One of the newest and most interesting typographic duos that has emerged lately, Pagan and Sharp—run by Carlos Pagan and Lucas Sharp—has released a new typeface called Sharp Sans. Based on the...
View ArticleDesigners I would recommend
On the occasion when I have to turn away a potential client project — usually due to time constraints, but really for any reason — the client almost always responds with the question, ‘so which...
View ArticleHonest Toddler
Walked into my parent’s room at 3AM. They looked at me like I was the angel of death. Just wanted a quesadilla. — Honest Toddler (@HonestToddler) February 7, 2013 Anyone with little kids will see the...
View ArticleFriday Likes 33
The common theme in this week's Friday Likes is that some thinking has gone into them — not that past Friday Likes didn't have any thinking, but these have a stronger bent on concept than...
View ArticleFriday Link Pack
(via bblinks) - Rock the Shack is a recent book by Gestalten on the architecture of cabins, cocoons and hide-outs. Lovely. - “Dog Eat Dog,” a true (though humorously exaggerated) story about how actor...
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