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"Once I even ended up in a holding cell at the border crossing to Norway, because the customs officers just wouldn’t accept that someone would drive all over Europe simply to take photographs of traffic signs."
Ralf Herrmann explaining the amazing lengths he went to in creating a new typeface designed especially for legibility when read on road signs.
(Source: ilovetypography.com)
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How to fit a 4" screen on an iPhone
…without making the form factor massively different or requiring all apps to be rewritten
(Source: twitter.com)
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Notes"We want to create wonder. We wanted to simplify people’s lives. Right now, there’s a common trap that can happen when you load up too much power into a piece of software that’s not that intelligent. Like the junior assistant that you hire, who instead of helping you by taking work of your plate, makes more work for you. We wanted that really senior assistant that really knows how to help."Matias Duarte of Google on the philiosophy behind and work that has gone into Ice Cream Sandwich - the latest version of Android. It certainly sounds like Google now have a strong personality leading Android design and development in a deliberate and specific direction. Which can only be a good thing for the currently fragmented and broken system…
(Source: thisismynext.com)
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Notes"There’s no doubt that the business models of delivering news to people are changing, but it’s quite clear that people still want news, and people still want journalism. I doubt the constantly-updating feeds of largely analysis-free news updates will provide much of a business model to anyone (except in aggregate) but actual journalism, that is most definitely worth something."Part of Aegir Hallmunder’s interesting analysis of the new Guardian iPad app
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Awesome voronoi inspired design for a super yacht (more)
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"…when it comes time to purchase, people tend to go for the more powerful products, and they judge the power by the apparent complexity of the controls."
Don Norman on why simplicity is highly overrated.
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Just as the clock on London’s Big Ben rang in the New Year, thousands of fireworks lit up the city’s skyline. Lucky for him, Dan Kitwood’s capture...
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Jean-Paul Bourdier uses colorfully painted human bodies as props in these stunning landscape photos!
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Well right, naturally you should hate spirituality. That word almost always refers to someone using the spiritual as spackle to fill a defect in... -
Being in the world’s deepest swimming pool is kinda like straight up swimming in the ocean!
Check out these photos from Nemo 33 in Brussels!
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Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes
I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with...
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How I built Hopper in a week, without internet
I built the minimum viable product for Hopper. In a week. With no internet.
“But why,” you say,...
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Slow lorises love tiny umbrellas!
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“Boris ‘has cut police numbers by 2,100 in a city about to host the Olympics; had 110 meetings with bankers, and only 74 with the police; claimed...”
