IdN reaches its 100th issue… that’s some staying power for a very niche magazine. Understandably, they are celebrating quite wildly with animations like this one from Kultnation.

This kind of shit is actually funny until it happens to you. I got tired of Microsoft Office a long time ago and switched to NeoOffice on my Mac. Actually, for simple word processing and spreadsheets, you cannot really beat Google Docs – it’s great for light users or for those who only occasionally need a word processor or spreadsheet software.

An excellent and extensive research post titled ‘Origins of ABC’ from John Boardley at I love Typography (ILT). A marvellous piece of work and a fascinating read, too!

Because I like pain and suffering, I recreate browser UI and form elements for my mock-ups from various sources for almost every other project. (Protip: This is how inertia and laziness manifests in more work later on.)

Today, I decided to get my act together and downloaded the Browser Form Elements PSD from Teehan+Lax, the same guys who made the wildly popular iPhone GUI PSD file.

If you need more UI elements from a slightly wider range of browsers, try the Designers Toolbox’s Web Browser Elements. Also recommended, but somewhat unrelated, is the excellent Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit.

Tokujin Yoshioka’s Tofu lamp is beautiful, functional, absolutely minimalist and exceedingly expensive. That’s what you’ll get from someone who features regularly at MoMA, I suppose.

A very handsome set of six hard covers, beautifully designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith at Penguin, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of F Scott Fitzgerald’s death.

With all the books arranged with their spines out, I was happily visualising the bookshelf at home looking pretty holding all six books.

The next visualization that followed was my wallet looking rather empty.

Toko, a Dutch duo who operate out of Australia, have an absolutely inspiring and stunning body of work.

[Via AisleOne]

The analysis was from Journalism.org and the very pretty chart was done by GOOD, which are both not old-school media, which runs counter to the results of the study.

Or does it?

Interesting…

Brilliant miniatures by the very talented Dan McPharlin.

If you meet a person who cares about the same obscure things you do, hold on to them for dear life.

›› Frank Chimero has some great advice

There’s a lot more from where that came from.

Those parachutes in the picture span a diameter of 35 metres. I’m not a parachute expert but it sounds kind of massive, no?

There’s still four more months left to the year, but Bang Bang Bang is the music video of the year for me. The multitude of Japanese references, from the 70s talk show thing to the weird angular framing, is just wicked. And director Warren Fu goes all the way by sandwiching the main event with a faux commercial and sports news. And—sorry, Mr Ronson—to be honest, I thought Q-Tip almost stole the show with his debonair smoothness and delivery. This is one wicked Friday track!