Kern Type, A Letter-Spacing Game That Teaches About Typography
Try it, it’s harder than you might think. And fun too!
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From The Guardian, holiday screensavers from renowned artists! Check them out (this one from Ai Weiwei):
Artists from Ai Weiwei to David Hockney have created holiday screensavers for us. Click on the image to get them on your desktop or phone. Merry Christmas!
M83 ‘Wait’
This is what happens when the band M83 collaborates with French directorial team Fleur & Manu: a dazzling, hallucinatory music video - not sure what it all means, but we love staring at these mysterious images… Last part of a Sci-Fi Music Trilogy featuring some extensive homages to the science-fiction cinema greats. Can you spot them?
In the age of smartphones, how can a phone booth be reinvented?
New York City 2012 – 11,000 public phone booths, down from 35, 000 15 years ago. When technology advances so fast, what is going to happen to public pay phones?
Yesterday, Michael Bloomberg, NYC’s mayor, launched the competition ‘Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge’, inviting everyone to submit ideas on redesigning the phone booths, with the only requirement that phone calls can still be made, especially in cases of emergency. For details on conditions of participating and deadlines, check out the contest website.
How would you transform the pay phones?
The 4th edition of TEDxAmsterdam is taking place at the Stadsschouwburg on November 30th, 2012. This years’ theme – human nature – refers to the distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting, that humans tend to have naturally. Visit tedxamsterdam.com on 30 November 2012 and watch the live stream there or join one of many viewing parties.
The Silent History is a novel, written and designed specially for iPad and iPhone, that uses serialization, exploration, and collaboration to tell the story of a generation of unusual children.
Wired calls it “Entirely Revolutionary”. An immersive digital storytelling experience by a group of acclaimed storytellers indeed: Eli Horowitz (former managing editor and publisher of McSweeney’s), Kevin Moffett (author of Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events and Permanent Visitors), Matthew Derby (author of Super Flat Times), Russell Quinn (co-founder of digital studio Spoiled Milk), and contributors on five continents.
“As we move into the future, which is clearly going to be dominated by technology, it’s important that we bring culture along with us.”
If Aaron Koblin wasn’t already your hero, his insights on the future of storytelling will change that – a fascinating look at some of his most acclaimed projects.
Other thinkers’ thoughts on the evolution of storytelling, from the same series, here and here.
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When women get techy, tech gets fashionable!
This is an amazing Kickstarter project, already funded, that basically turns a woman’s handbag into a portable smartphone charger. How ready is the world of fashion for all those gadgets out there? We see plenty of opportunities, for women AND men.
I always keep my phone in my pocket: any chance on fitting that pocket with charging power?
The alphabet for digital hipsters (and their kids). So I guess T is for Tumblr then?
This is a funny illustration project by Emma Cook. These flash cards help designers, nerds, geeks or simply hipsters to teach their children the alphabet with the most important gadgets, tools and items in life.
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Wander & share
Nowadays, social media is literally everywhere and is so varied that it’s quite easy to find the one (or many) that suits your needs. And when you think that you have it all set, another option appears out of nowhere.
This time it’s called Wander and it asks you to share “the places you’ve been and the places you dream of - all the places you’re connected to and the story that tells”. Places and stories. Simple as that. And yet we feel like it’s going to rock. They’re not fully open yet, but you can request an invite here. See you there, wanderer.
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