March 2013
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December 2012
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September 2012
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TK TYPE: A Not-So-Brief Explanation of Chartwell →
tktype:
The underlying architecture of Chartwell revolves around ligature substitutions. Most typefaces use ligatures to prevent glyphs from crashing into each other. A simple swap code looks something like:
sub f i by f_i;
So, whenever an “f” appears next to an “i”, the two get swapped out with a…
August 2012
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April 2012
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“Tracking nearly anything you do is alarming and humbling. The aggregates of our...”
– Tom MacWright (Quantified Self)
March 2012
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“1. Why do you write your own software rather than only use existing software...”
– Nicholas Felton, Graphisme en France
February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
4 posts
Frontiers through the Ages
dbreunig:
Water, 1400
Land, 1840
Gold, 1850
Wire, 1880
Air, 1900
Celluloid, 1920
Plastic, 1950
Space, 1960
Silicon, 1980
Networks, 1990
Data, 2000
Substratum Interview →
A compendium of interviews with the incredibly talented speakers from this year’s Eyeo festival. There’s also one with me.
November 2011
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October 2011
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“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
– William Gibson (via ninedaysoff)
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September 2011
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roomthily: the internet with things →
If this is about a fitbit for my cat, I’m in.
roomthily:
The problem, though, with the Internet Of Things is that it falls apart when it starts to think about people. When big company Internet Of Things thinkers get involved they tend to spawn creepy videos about sleek people in sleek homes living optimised lives full of smart objects. These videos…
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Drewbot: On Facebook Timeline: Teaching Data to... →
dbreunig:
Yesterday, Facebook unveiled their new “Timeline” design. Largely imagined by Sam Lessin and Nicholas Feltron, the design coaxes personal actions recorded by Facebook into a humane, emotional, interface for a given history1. Users can delve into their content not as images, notes, and…
WatchOnformative Actelion Imagery Wizard - made in Processing.
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“Processing seeks to ruin the careers of talented designers by tempting them away...”
– Ben Fry and Casey Reas (via notational) 