being a famous hollywood actor undoubtedly makes it a bit easier to get attention for your little app idea, but in the case of this retro typewriter app from mister tom hanks, it is actually quite a nice idea and certainly well made… check the hanx typewriter for ipad
seen in todays newspapers: a great idea to introduce a new wheelchair symbol; which aims to tackle the many stigmas around this subject… the accessible icon project
here’s a bit more type porn to start the day, letterpress and linocutting have always been highly photogenic subject matters for me and the three day course i just did at letterpress amsterdam was no exception…
as the bbc recently reported: …an american academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images. kalev leetaru has already uploaded 2.6 million pictures to flickr, which are searchable thanks to tags that have been automatically added. The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organisation. The images have been difficult to access until now…
check the internet archive book images here
