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A Fieldguide to Love and Typography

FontShop, the first digital type foundry, features all things typographic on their education web page. Their online library of free PDFs is a great introduction to typography.

Do you love art and air powered golfball cannons?

Then check out SmashPutt! (2 weekends left, get your tickets today! 21+) It is located at INSCAPE, Seattle’s former INS building redefined by culture, arts, preservation and engagement. SmashPutt is a sponsor of INSCAPE, where the haunted old INS building becomes a new art space in Seattle.

Urbanized. How design affects your life in the city.

Director Gary Hustwit, brought us Helvetica in 2007, Objectified in 2009, and is working on a new documentary Urbanized to debut in 2011. Helvetica, the start of this design trilogy is a documentary film about typography and graphic design and their impact on our visual environment. The film portrays Helvetica’s elegance and ubiquity, and illuminates … Continued

Inka Dink a Bottle of Ink

The physical properties of printing inks are often overlooked–especially, when compared with paper’s nearly endless texture and material options. This video is a beautiful window into the process and care that goes into quality press inks. The metallic ink on our most recent print piece for OSU Chabad is a great example of ink’s luscious … Continued

30-Hour Liquid Nitrogen Burgers

I would love to see a copy of this book. We know from experience that the photography will be absolutely gorgeous. From the NYT: The cheeseburger, for instance, requires the meat to be cooked sous vide for several hours. Freezing with liquid nitrogen ensures that the crust will stay crispy while the center stays perfectly … Continued

The Beauty of Ink on Paper

Ink on colored paper begs to be touched. Simple 1–3 color offset lithography can achieve effects similar to silkscreen and letterpress printing. This is the Ohio State Chabad House’s new look book. It’s exciting to pull back from full color printing and design more with less. We had fun collaborating with our amazing intern Christopher … Continued

4 Seconds a Day with 50 Tiny Dots

The world’s smallest stop motion character animation, certified by the Book of Guinness World Records. The animation was created by the folks behind Wallace and Gromit, Aardman Animation. From Nokia’s Blog: Shooting only four seconds of footage per day, the team worked painstakingly to produce the movie. Rather than create a model for the lead … Continued

NASA

Historic NASA images have been released on The Commons on Flickr, the fruit of a collaborative effort between Flickr , NASA and the Internet Archive. This move will widen the audience for the great images that have long been available at NASA Images.