I which I continue to post links to stuff I would have loved around the time I hacked together this blog.
- Tabula Peutingeriana, a road map of Europe - a copy of a Roman original thought to be based on a map by Agrippa
- Guide to the Tablula Peutingeriana
- Visual guide to the map
- NYC subway map style
- Google Maps directions for the ancient Roman world
Also, holograms are almost sorta a thing now? (They had to have known that short clips of primitive, flickering but recognizable holograms looks exactly like a scene of out sci-fi: "then, our scientists discovered a new way to bend light.")
Each black bar is a ride, the height corresponds to the mileage for the ride.
And they can't protest because they don't believe in private property! Or something. Plus they're probably dead. Ooo, bright colors!
Someone finally did it: they're writing a book publicly, soliciting comments on each chapter/paragraph - letting anyone write in the margins, basically. Haven't tried reading the thing yet, have a sneaking suspicion the site design is the best part.
Small, perfect icons for free. Telephone, Coat Check, Ground Transportation, Coffeeshop, No Smoking, Forward and Right Arrow.
Desktop background photos.
Khoi Vinh's blog. He's now in charge of designing NYTimes.com; his old company Behavior did the new Onion site.
"A game of tag, played by an adaptive population." I want to print this out on super-huge paper and stick it on my wall.
I will stay here next time I am in Copenhagen.
Must ... have ... useless things ...
Positive Ape Index
Bubblegumfink
"You've seen them. There's one that's been sitting on a shelf gathering dust in your uncle Billy's garage for 30 years now. It's image flickers through your head when you're daydreaming about hotrods and monster movies and eating corndogs at the carnival."
Wow, sorry, that's not so good. Let me see what else I can dig up.
edit: seems like that's dead, but the Instagram account is active as of 2023.
update: finding it hard to remember why I thought this was worth capital letters
In 2020, when I finally redesign this site, I will rip off that page shamelessly.
not all
Contemporary design, gorgeous.
You've seen it. It's cool. Now my default front page for news. (Yes, I'd rather have my news be pretty than human-edited and meaningful.)
Will somebody please please buy me this for my birthday? April 5th.
update: Jean's on it.
From antipulse, which may or may not be the Alex Reynolds who used to post at idm@hyperreal.
Badass design of all kinds - digital, physical, emotional. Hi Bart!
Design fucking awesome.
"Someone is blogging the highways of Southern California..."
Check out the Junior Senior video. Seriously. Do it. The drunk squirrel is only the beginning.
A type foundry and design house Anna thought I would like. Correct.
Paging Joe Kavalier.
"...a very dedicated group of people from "the scene" have spent two years painstaking recovering demos from obscurity, finding the old 286 and 386 hardware, installing the needed (obsolete) cards, and capturing them perfectly in full digital glory."
It's only $16 with S&H. Buy it.
"gig posters, flyers and handbills from around the world"
Wallpaper, actually.
Human-centered design with a high wow factor (hexagons instead of cubicles?)
Audio tourism: put on your headphones, click past the splash page and then just let the front page sit in the background while you work. We need less music and more sound design. Nice screensaver, too.
They're doing a PowerPoint face-off. One of the rounds, 'Rapt By Rap', requires the participants to create the PowerPoint presentation they imagine their hip-hop heroes would use to accompany their lyrics. This is anticipatory; the entries aren't up yet.
And the site's tagline made my day. And I needed it.
This collection of Chinese propaganda posters led me on a search for equivalent Russian designs. I had trouble coming up with what I thought of as archetypal Soviet propaganda posters, until I realized I was looking for a specific school called Constructivism. Constructivism turns out to be a classic old-school capital-letter Movement with (occasionally rabid) proponents in education and the arts. I want to argue passionately about ideas and make love as a political act. I want to belong to a movement. That said, I'm still looking for a good online gallery of Constructivist propaganda posters. The dtac ones are my favorites, I think.
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