Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
You’ve probably never heard of Chris Costello, but there’s a good chance you hate him. Outside of Comic Sans creator Vincent Connare, Costello is perhaps the most vilified man in all font design. Costello, you see, is the father of Papyrus, a calligraphic typeface he first created in 1982. I never intended Papyrus to…
Alejandro Aravena of Chile, whose work is modest, practical, and exceptionally elegant, has been awarded the 2016 Pritzker Prize. Last year, the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most celebrated award in architecture, selected the German architect Frei Otto, who was 89 when he got the good news. Otto died two weeks later and…
Improving Post New Before I get into it, I’m going to need help to get some of these projects going. If you see something you’re interested in working on, let me know in the comments. The following project proposals are not intended to be a single feature plugin because they are separate projects with separate…
Person of Interest – Samaritan UI – YouTube. Source: Person of Interest – Samaritan UI – YouTube
gallery js Next Tuesday evening at Cooper Union, some of the titans of New York City subway map design will convene alongside map aficionados to talk shop. The setting is auspicious, as back in 1978 Cooper Union hosted the Great Subway Map Debate, a showdown between backers of Massimo Vignelli’s sleek-but-disorienting subway diagram and supporters,…
For all its rough and rugged mystique, masculinity can be the most vulnerable of traits. Forged by the knuckle-worn fists thumping hard against Homosapien chests, and honed to a fine sheen in the gladiator bathhouses of ancient Rome, the fragile male ego is now under threat by the greatest force the world has ever known:…
We desperately want to mock Brooklyn’s food scene alongside this Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator, but in the interest of editorial transparency, we’d totally tear into a basket of Butter & Sprouted Kale Bombs alongside a few Seasonal Water Tacos with Ramp. Don’t judge. [via Boing Boing] [Cover Photo: Simon Watson/Getty Images]
You ideate on paper. You wireframe and design an interface in Sketch. You prototype it in HTML. And you track your progress in Slack, while sharing files via Dropbox. This is the modern designer’s workflow, according to a new poll of 4,000 designers run by Khoi Vinh—former design director of NYTimes.com who recently signed with…
Many of you might have already seen the new Google identity. I’m not surprised that the brand is evolving its look in wake of the current company restructuring and formation of Alphabet. Change is oftentimes necessary and with a brand like Google that has so much reach and weight in this world, the changes are…
Cosmopolitan Woah. Viewing this on your phone? Pinch to zoom in Cosmopolitan covers started out with women dressed conservatively. Then they started showing some skin. Then more skin. Finally, they started posing in sexy positions. As women have earned more rights throughout the years, they’ve also earned the right to wear whatever they damn well…