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Painstakingly hand-crafted beauty and brilliance.

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  • infographic, music video, visualization

 

That’s some seriously insane (but totally valid) CSS by Román Cortés.

And now I’m feeling thirsty.

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  • coke, css, displacement, html, paper vision

 

Leopold and Loeb, a terrible 1924 kidnapping crime undertaken just for the ‘thrill of the kill’

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  • crime, kidnap, murder, ransom, typewriter

 

Another happy, fun video from the band that brought us the original happy, fun video. There’s an open letter from OK Go about video embedding and other marketing issues for their new album – quite a good look at how (a small part of) the music industry works.

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  • band, fun, music video, outdoors

 

The complete works of Samuel Beckett, with a specially designed typefaces for the covers. Bold and beautiful work by the London studio, A2/SW/HK.

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  • a2swhk, cover, samuel beckett, typeface

 

Will there come a time when data will be sufficient or is the problem insoluble in all conceivable circumstances?

›› The Last Question by Isaac Asimov © 1956

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  • human, intelligence, isaac asimov, question, science fiction, short story

 

Steven Bonner is a great illustrator with a great body of diverse work, like this sweetly detailed T-shirt print

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  • illustration, portfolio, Scotland, star wars

 

Totally random picture, yo!

Seriously… WTF?

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  • dj, hook, musician, random, vanilla ice, weird

 

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  • 00s, cover, magazine, story

 
Album art from Moderat's self-titled 2009 album

Combine Modeselektor’s grimy, pirate radio sounding music with Apparat’s elegant minimalism and you get a slightly schizophrenic line-up called Moderat. Easily one of the best albums of 2009, Moderat is a nice fusion of seemingly opposing aural aesthetics. And you really have to give it more than one listen to appreciate the dark layers and graceful subtlety in the background.

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  • ambient, apparat, electronic, glitch, minimal

 

Good thinking by the British think-tank, Demo and good animation by Airside.

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  • infographic, politics, power, video, visualization

 

tldr is an application that visualizes structures and patterns within ongoing conversations

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  • application, discussion, reddit, visualization

 

From the venerable Dieter Rams:

  • Good design should be innovative
  • Good design should make a product useful
  • Good design is aesthetic design
  • Good design will make a product understandable
  • Good design is honest
  • Good design is unobtrusive
  • Good design is long lived
  • Good design is consistent in every details
  • Good design should be environmentally friendly
  • Good design is as little design as possible

[Via GigaOM]

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  • experience, product, user interface

 

Cute summary of the last decade, even though it is very America-centric

Happy New Year! And let’s be happy our world hasn’t panned out like Arthur C Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two.

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  • arthur c clarke

 

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