“Most people can’t discern good from bad typography but everybody can feel it.” - Oliver Reichenstein, writing on iA’s new, adaptive agency site about responsive typography, and the work his company ...
A Closer Look At Font Rendering: Type designer and Typekit consultant Tim Ahrens has written a comprehensive state of the play for Smashing Magazine regarding rendering engines and font formats for s...
Letterboxd: Today we’re pleased to announced our transition from private to public beta. All pages on Letterboxd are now publicly visible (except for those deemed private by their owners), and all ne...
The Grady twins from The Shining, by cartoonist David Lasky. (via Lee Unkrich)
Type design firm Underware’s bold and beautiful new wordmark for Tahoe South. Love.
A stunning, fan-made opening title sequence for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, created and composited by Doğan Can Gündoğdu. /via Nice Type
Letterboxd, the social film diary and review site I’ve been working on with a few colleagues over the past year, is nearing its public beta launch. We’ve continued to add to and improve the site sinc...
FontShop’s best typefaces of 2011 have been announced: To celebrate the end of another exciting year in type, our type experts put their heads together to compile our annual “Best Of” list, highlight...
“That’s No Moon.” The perfect Christmas ornament by Chris McVeigh, with instructions.
Offscreen magazine, a Kickstarter project from Melbournites Kai Brach and Jess Murray, is a little over $5,000 short of a modest goal with 3 days left to run on its campaign. Here’s the idea in their...
“Some people flunk out of school, but are still very interesting people. They’re not in the class that goes ahead, but maybe you’d like to go visit them.” - David Lynch reflects on almost an hour’s w...
Christopher Jobson (via Jonathan Moore): A Star Wars reference is rare on Colossal, but this new print by Anton Marrast is exceptionally genius. Pick up a copy via S6.
Photography by Matthias Schaller from an eponymous 330-page retrospective of his work over the past decade, available now for pre-order from Amazon. (via Daily Icon)
Jason Santa Maria: The second film in the Made by Hand series, The Knife Maker, focuses on Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn. Joel painstakingly makes beautiful knives by hand while breaking down the tr...
The new video for “No Way” from the debut album Passive Me, Aggressive You by The Naked And Famous. Directed by Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali for Special Problems. These guys can do no wrong.
The Dutch Icon collective, headed by Hemmo de Jonge, has an impressive collection of royalty-free work for sale. The examples above are just two of the 99 sets they’ve drawn to date, all of which are...
Timeless: Jeremy Keith takes Ian Hickson to task over the removal of the time element from the HTML5 spec: In this case the editor’s unilateral decision is fundamentally at odds with the most importa...
Claes Källarsson: Saul Bass’ brilliant opening titles for Grand Prix (1966).
Photographer Sacha Goldberger perfectly captures the somber hilarity of grandparents Star Wars cosplay. (via Samantha Cliffe)
Mike Harding: For a good part of this year I’ve been working with the guys here at Cactuslab on a new site called Letterboxd. It’s a site for film lovers; a place where you can keep a log of the film...
Creative Review (via Peter Nidzgorski): Sir Paul Smith has designed a series of four silk-screen posters to celebrate new movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, released later this month. … Smith collabora...
Retiring Jobs’ Number: Rob Cottingham (via Cameron Moll): The debate will rage for a long time over what piece of technology best encapsulates Steve Jobs’ influence on our world: The iPhone? iPod? iM...
Jurjen Versteeg’s 2011 graduation project pays homage to the greats of title sequence design, each rendered in their signature style. Perfect. Watch the Titles has the backstory.
Fleet Foxes covering Whitney’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”. Update: turns out that’s not them singing after all. (via Fleet Foxes Sing)
Nice use of pictograms in this student packaging project by Sascha Elmers. (via Stephen Coles)
Apple: Heres Final Cut Pro X. Editors: This is an outrage. Where is EDL? Where is OMF?! What have you done with XML?! Apple: Shut up, nerds. Here it is. Its the future. Editors: So help me God, I wil...
Last November, my wife and I travelled with a few friends to Japan. Here’s the edited video highlights, including boating down the Hozu River, monkeying about at Shibuya Crossing and visiting the Tsu...
Buzz Anderson: Lucky Peach, the new quarterly food magazine from Momofuku’s David Chang and McSweeney’s. Ridiculously excited about this!
“For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Face...
Among new work at Matt Lehman Studio, this logo for the March 2011 edition of Esquire’s “Eat Like A Man” section.
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