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Alphabet City 25 Apr 2008 | 08:02 am
Last weekend I attended a typography walking tour around the Lower East Side of Manhattan led by Tobias Frere-Jones (of Hoefler & Frere-Jones fame). The tour focused mainly on engraved and painted sig...
WordPress Admin Redesign 31 Mar 2008 | 11:43 pm
Over the weekend WordPress 2.5 was released, and oh what a release it is. The WordPress admin has had a complete facelift, a joint effort from Automattic, Happy Cog, and many individuals from the Word...
So Long, South By 18 Mar 2008 | 01:38 am
Another South By Southwest Interactive has come and gone. This year's conference was once again bigger than its predecessors, packed with the heaping portions of both really good and so-so content. I ...
Clever Veggies 28 Feb 2008 | 03:50 am
As I stood on the subway platform the other day, zoning out at the posters that line the walls, I snapped to attention as a most peculiar thing caught my eye: a poster for a movie called The Pirates W...
New Zealand 21 Feb 2008 | 08:11 am
Returning from New Zealand is a very sad endeavor. Not only do you get to endure a very long day—somewhere around 36 hours and involving numerous cars, planes, and sherpas—but you also must deal with ...
Mucking Up the Fireworks 23 Jan 2008 | 06:48 pm
Anyone following me on Twitter will likely tell you I have a love/hate relationship with Adobe products, specifically Photoshop, the application I use the most. After all, Photoshop is chiefly an imag...
Gamma Gamma Hey! 13 Dec 2007 | 04:20 am
Ah, perfect. This is the most brilliant design I shall ever produce. Everything is in order; all of the colors are amazing. If I died right now while sitting at this computer, even the EMTs will say t...
Flap 'n' Snap PSA 30 Nov 2007 | 02:17 am
The prospect is simple: a slacken-jawed subject flaps their face to and fro as fast as they can while camera wielding onlookers snap a photo. Without fail, hilarity ensues. But as fantastically hilari...
Avatar Icebreaker 17 Nov 2007 | 03:45 am
Avatars certainly aren't a new thing. They've long been a staple of pride and showmanship in forums all across the internet. I've never really paid much attention the avatars I use, generally just opt...
Where They Should Be 14 Nov 2007 | 04:24 am
When I saw the new Apple keyboards a few months back, I thought they were pretty ridiculous; they're as thin as a Ritz cracker and barely raised off of your desk. It seemed more like comical modernism...
