the science behind fonts and how they make you feel

sites that are like “yoga studios for content.” lol

the science behind fonts and how they make you feel

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prototype for bjork’s “mutual core” video. 

I love seeing what a cheap prototype looks like for different mediums. 

(Source: http://player.vimeo.com/)

Box Shapes

http://www.tableofcontents.us/collections/objects/products/tocmagazinemarker-toc-studio

portfolio site with alternate views

Switch between list view (infinite scroll, perhaps in reverse chronological order) and tile view with the icons in the top left corner. 

I like the flexibility between the two, that one can choose to imbibe or select carefully from a more finite feeling group. 

Different audiences with different purposes would prefer one over the other. New visitors perhaps want more of an overview; good friends want only the latest. 

(via http://cargocollective.com/favorites)

portfolio site with alternate views

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my new room has bigass ceilings so i’m looking for ways to use that space, effectively. or not. 

also I’m digging this teapot. 

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Philip Greenspun and Web Dev of the 90's

In October 1995, the MIT Media Lab threw itself a tenth anniversary party. I skipped it so that I could take snapshots of colored trees in Vermont, but my friends said that the physical event was fabulous: little gifts for everyone, cleverly packaged; a Photomosaic poster by Rob Silvers; women in plastic pants. As an adjunct to the physical event, the Media Lab was going to create the best Web site ever. They got NYNEX to bring in a 45-Mbps T3 network connection; you wouldn’t want millions of users to get slowed down working their way through MIT’s 100-Mbps backbone. They got Hewlett-Packard to donate a huge pile of multiprocessor machines with disk arrays. They hired expert consultants to plug all the computers in and hook them up to the network. They hired professionals to do graphic design and site layout.

After getting back from foliage country, I visited http://www.1010.org with high hopes. There wasn’t any magnet content. Nobody had bothered to write stories or take pictures. Every day a Media Lab editor posed a question and then sat back to watch a USENET-style discussion evolve. There were only a handful of postings in each area. One user had contributed a smiley face. Colon dash right-paren. That was his entire message. This didn’t really shock me until I noticed that on a scale from 1 to 7, this post had been rated 4.3 by other users. Yes, several other users had taken the trouble to rate this three-character posting. When the 10-day Web event was over, the massive disk arrays held almost enough user-contributed data to fill two 3.5 inch floppies.

Julien d’Ys sketchbook

paintedetc:

Application

2012

Anders Clausen

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“Made on a giant inexact industrial printer (it can turn turn greytones into yellow), and printed onto a form of upvc canvas that could be the hoarding that covered a Doges Palace in scale and durability, Anders Clausen’s ‘Color Picker’ works draw on computer software icons, desktop imagery, emoticons, found imagery and Photoshop toolbars in their variously ‘collaged’ and pristine arrangements. Back to Illich for a moment, and his conviction that he needs to find a framework for evaluating man’s relation to his tools, “Neither a dictatorial proletariat nor a leisure mass can escape the dominion of constantly expanding industrial tools.” And Debord’s earlier notion that being is replaced by ‘having’, which is then replaced by appearing. Clausen asserts a bold relationship with the myriad personal, leisure, business, creative, practical or emotional fragments and essential tools for navigating through the desktop, on which we build our avatars, and acknowledges that they come through pre-existing material, images and texts. Copied and doctored.”

- Broadway 1602 

contemporaryartdaily:

Nina Beier - Group Show at Croy Nielsen