The manual was found in a locker beneath old gym clothes. Crazy. The site http://thestandardsmanual.com is dedicated to serve as an archival record of a first edition NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual designed by Massimo Vignelli of Unimark International. It was curated and brought to life by Niko Skourtis, Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth. Thank you, […]
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This experiment brings together the power of Google Translate and the collective knowledge of Wikipedia to put into context the relationship between language and geographical space. Not only is it visually stunning, but one of the mots perfectly executed application mash-ups out there. Please try it for yourself here.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Design Program is a modernist vision for an optimistic future. The logo (often referred to as “the worm”) evokes qualities of unity, technical precision, scientific capabilities and uniqueness. Reduced to its simplest form; the one width, continuous-stroke letters are as contemporary today as when the logo was first introduced […]
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This design exploration by Russian designer Tema Troinoi is astonishing. And he is looking for an internship!? Check out the whole concept process here
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Arthur Bodolec, Design co-founder at feedly, explores the new Google Material design in this insightful and extensive article. So good. Read the full article here and start re-thinking your mobile design strategy.
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Shade is a mathematically derived gradient explorer by Brent Jackson. Sounds geeky, right? Super-cool. Get your gradient mojo on here.
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I am a total sucker for responsive design. But I will have to re-think my assumptions just a little bit though I guess….. http://www.iamthefold.com/ An experiment to show how designing for The Fold can be treacherous. Made by Iestyn Williams and based on the idea by Jordan Moore. Each line is from a random sampling […]
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This seriously awesome tool takes a set color palette and shows contrast values for every possible combination. This is useful for finding safe color combinations with predefined colors and includes pass/fail scores for the WCAG accessibility guidelines. Check out the goodness here.
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Amazing detail and insight. Read the whole article here. As long as the Internet has existed, virtual communities have always been around. In fact, they even predate the web. It seems hard to imagine now, but there was a time when “going online” meant logging on to a BBS or newsgroup, not opening a web […]
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A nifty JavaScript library, used to show small ascii animations within comments in your dom. It’s a little easter egg for anyone inspecting your code. Nothing more, nothing less. Check it out here. Thanks Tim Holman.
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