Category Archive for 'design'

Quote of the Day

Posted in design on Oct 2nd, 2008

There are two types of people in the world: those who can’t tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica, and those who despise Arial.
From Daring Fireball.

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Multicolour Search Lab

Posted in design on Sep 24th, 2008

This is great. It’s a colour picker that identifies photos on Flickr that use those colours. Clever, quick and uses Creative Commons images.

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Box Office Dataviz

Posted in design, play on Aug 10th, 2008

This is a cool datavisualisation of box office takings from recent movies.
I love this kind of thing. I wish I had a design brain.
Via H&F-J, via Kottke.

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Ampersands

Posted in blogs, design on Aug 7th, 2008

I like ampersands too. One of my favourite fonts, Hoefler Text, has a great italic ampersand, thus:

Via the always excellent Daring Fireball. John Gruber uses Gil Sans and so do we.

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