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(via FFFF)

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The Third & The Seventh

Alex Roman, The Third & The Seventh, 2009 Full screen display is definitely recommended. This thing brings ultra-realistic CG to new levels. It is possible to forget for significant periods of time that everything here is rendered. UPDATE: there’s a … more…

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we have transparency (up to a point)

A welcome development with — I assume — the new iTunes 9, not mentioned in any of the gee-whizzery that’s attended the upgrade, as far as I’ve noticed. iTunes coverflow now supports PNG transparency, which means we can has round … more…

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Pattern in Islamic Art

I’ve been waiting for something like this to turn up: Pattern in Islamic Art is a browsable collection of 4000+ examples of art (chiefly decorative art, obviously) from across the Islamic world. Now I realise that there’s no shortage of … more…

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problematic staircase

Abduzeedo staircase I’ve seen a few variants on this staircase in the past year or two, and while there’s obviously an elegant, minimalist tendency at work, I can’t help but think that the approach does a disservice to those of … more…

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cover versions

In a similar vein to the Wu Tang / Bluenote redesign project, here’s a bunch of “classic” albums (not all of which are familiar to me, I must admit) done up as Penguin book covers. It seems there was an … more…

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Logan Walters’ Wu-Tang Design Remix project

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | Logan Walters As you see, Logan Walters is doing a complete set of parallel universe Wu Tang album covers, primarily inspired by the Blue Note catalogue. It could be very tacky, but manages not … more…

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Obamafied

Links are cropping up all over the place to this flash-based gizmo that will transform any given picture (or webcam input) into a Shepard Fairey style Obama poster. I’m reasonably pleased with the result here. The result is rather fuzzier … more…

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links for 2008-05-14: cartograms

Images of the social and economic world cartograms of world population, GDP, health spending, so forth. (via Improprieties (tags: soc-studs visualization globospheric design statistics)

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links for 2008-05-09: signage fonts, Richard Price

CBRD – Media – Fonts British road sign fonts. I searched in vain for information about these, a couple of years ago. (via russel davies) (tags: typography UK road-signs) The Believer – Interview with Richard Price – containing, amongst other … more…

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