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excessive skeumorphism

ios7_garrett

digital pioneer malcom garrett shares his first thoughts on the new iOS and i find myself agreeing with him on virtually everything…

m / 26-09-2013 08:08 - tags: , , , ,  

ZXX

…the name ZXX comes from the Library of Congress’ Alpha-3 ISO 639-2 — codes for the representation of names of languages. ZXX is used to declare No linguistic content… interesting font project by degree student sang mun which is designed to exploit weaknesses in OCR technology, it can also be downloaded for free… in case you are worried that the NSA is watching you

zxx_font_ocr

m / 26-09-2013 08:05 - tags: ,  

surface mapping

m / 25-09-2013 08:06 - tags: , , ,  

the colour of the netherlands

amsterdam_by_age

fascinating project which aims to document the whole of the netherlands by the age of its 9,866,539 buildings

zoom in and have a look at amsterdam for example; although i believe the data is not 100% accurate… it provides a beautiful visualisation of the countries’ history (via this site)

m / 23-09-2013 09:59 - tags: , , ,  

physical topography

m / 05-09-2013 11:25 - tags: , , ,