Links published in July 2010 — Most recent at top.
Apple: Walk-Through of Their Giga-Million Dollar Antenna Testing Lab •
Um, can we see more of these boneriffic sci-fi-bat-cave interiors? What other secret installations do these kids have in Cupertino?
CCA: Geoff Manaugh on Method •
This summer, BLDGBLOG’s Geoff Manaugh has been crowned Resident Blogger at the CCA. He’s been taking plunges in their archives and blogging his discoveries on the CCA’s website and on the bldgblog. And tonight, good news to montrealers: he’s taking the stage at the CCA and talking about the experience and “the strategic opportunities and limitations of blogging as a form of architectural research”. 6pm. See you there.
UPDATE: Non-Montrealers rejoice! The talk will be streamed live.
Brand New: Johnson’s Backyard Garden •
Elegant typographic and identity redesign for the biggest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program in Texas. The cardboard boxes are my favorites.Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures •
A single line of CSS code that will greatly improve you’re site’s typography, thus legibility. Especially in you’re using a large font-size. Put it in the body selector.Vanity Fair: Top 20 architecture projects since 1980 •
As voted by a jury of 52 architects. Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim seems to be the flat out favourite. View the whole list here. (via Kottke)NFB: Fogo Island opens E-cinema, celebrates Fogo Island •
The same way the Challenge for Change did change things 40 years ago, the NFB and Fogo Island Arts corporation are joining forces again today, opening the island’s e-cinema but also a film residency program and “media literacy workshops to the island’s youth”:
It is now continuing that tradition, encouraging their passion for the arts while simultaneously using film and video to bring about change, both to the community and the economy.
Featuring the 9 films by Colin Law. If you have only time to see one, watch Children of Fogo. (thanks Steve)