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Little Big Details, a Tumblr dedicated to pointing out the subtle considerations in user interface design that make a positive, substantial difference. Love it.
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Belgian designer Tom Muller has put together an infographic “mapping out the Coen filmography and map out the most prevailing actors throughout the years by film.”
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Sappi has introduced a searchable directory of printers — by state, specialty, capabilities, and even by whether they are FSC certified or minority owned — that have been honored in their prestigious Printer of the Year Awards.
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I wanna be a billionaire so fricking bad: inside Ralph Lauren’s garage and his unbelievable collection of classic cars.
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Trevor Paglen’s I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World explores the cryptic iconography of the U.S. military’s secret programs.
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A series of five posters by Y&R Brazil for Santa Casa Hospital making a case to donate, not waste, blood.
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“Typefaces of the World,” by Shelby White organizes the “typefaces that are most commonly used in a lot of today’s design” in a pretty-to-look-at infographic.
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“MEAT AMERICA,” by Dominic Episcopo is a book and series of prints that “celebrate our appetite for insurmountable odds, limitless aspiration, and immeasurable success. Actually, just between us; it’s a way for us to combine a few of our favorite things. Meat. Quotes. Facts. Photography. And the indefinable adjective that is ‘American.’”
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Intellectual rights silliness: artist Jeff Koons sues a San Francisco bookstore for selling balloon dog bookends. From the actual complaint: “As virtually any clown can attest, no one owns the idea of making a balloon dog, and the shape created by twisting a balloon into a dog-like form is part of the public domain.”
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FontFuse, a fun little playground for generating good typeface pairs, brought to you by Extensis’ WebINK web font service.
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