Links published in May 2010 — Most recent at top.
Surplace's "Fantastic fixed gear calculator" •
For all your fixie’s cog, gear and skid calculations needs. Smart and iPhone friendly.
“Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue and Grey” (1920) restyled by you: drag them lines, change them colors, make art.
A Preliminary Atlas of Gizmo Landscapes •
Bldgblog style, Rob Holmes walks through the network of landscapes related far and wide to the use of an iPhone. From the mines of Zinc in Alaska, the smelting facility in BC, the assembly factories in Shenzhen, the data farms in Oregon, to the cell towers in Brooklyn: all coming together for you to find the your closest caffeine joint. (via kottke)
Joe Gilmore's "Olaf" Visual Blog •
Gah! I want to ffffind every poster I see on there. Reminds me of vvork, but for the graphic design inclined.
Big Picture: Vietnam, 35 years later •
Like one of the commenters said: “These are the pictures that ended the war.” Hopefully, we’ll be able to say the same thing soon about Afghanistan.
La meilleure baguette de Paris est dans le 18e •
Et en plus, le boulanger est d’origine sénégalaise! J’adore le contraste de la chose, ça doit en froisser plus qu’un. Interview de la BBC avec Djibril Bodian ici. (Merci Jacky)Chez Phillippe & Jasmine Starck, photographed by Todd Shelby •
Ça ne m‘étonne pas du tout que ce soit aussi éclectique, loin des environnement ultra-léchés que demandent ses clients: superstar designers are people too. (via mocoloco)
Analyses et schématisation de mise en page de grands site web (facebook, youtube and the likes). Faire les wireframe à l’envers, c’est comme mettre des lunettes “no bullshit”, tu réalises à quel point certains site sont structurés de façon cohérente (et d’autres moins). (Merci LP)
Le plateau œuvre pour fermer 10 à 15 de ses rues aux automobiles •
Et un marché de producteurs maraîchers s‘établi sur St-Dominique, aux côtés du parc Lahaie, entre Laurier et St-Joseph. Quand est-ce que Luc Ferrandez se présente comme maire, qu’on puisse l‘élire une fois pour toute? (Merci Coco)
Laptopograms are images made by pressing photosensitive paper onto a laptop screen and flashing an image in a manner not unlike contact printing or photograms.
The photographs seem so far from their digital equivalent, I’m surprised by the absence pixel grain. Funny how a Facebook profile can suddenly become art.
Brand New has a brand new section called Classroom where brand names go to get hypothetical revamps by graphic design students. Interesting discussions, especially when the current identities are broken and need the right fix.
A recent favorite: having juggled and explored arabic typography last year, this graphic translation of latin logos in hebrew strikes a cord: with the web (and thus english) gaining much traction worldwide, we’re not seeing enough cultural contextualization of brand names.