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tm

an online (research) archive of the renowned, modernist type journal: typographische monatsblätter

covering all issues from the period 1960 through to 1990, featuring all of the (often very spartan) covers and interviews taken from the journal with prominent designers and typographers from the various eras involved

(many thanks to ‘uwe’ for the tip)

m / 01-10-2012 09:56 - tags: , ,  

dumbar revamps

an updated website from studio dumbar this month, including new projects such as the rather smart ‘alzheimer’ identity, not sure about those ‘candy’ colours personally though…

m / 27-09-2012 20:16 - tags: , ,  

hony

if you haven’t yet heard of the online phenomenon known as hony (humans of new york), here’s a bbbc interview where he tells his story about the near-hysterical reactions his blog seems to create around manhattan

m / 14-09-2012 07:49 - tags: , , ,  

rgb colorspace atlas

a baffling series of eight ‘cube’ books that allegedly contain the entire rgb colorspace in printed form, from american artist tauba auerbach, her own epilepsy-inducing website is here

(tip via ‘harm’ the pixel sniffer)

m / 12-09-2012 08:56 - tags: , , ,  

the internet map

…unlike real maps (e.g. the map of the Earth) or virtual maps (e.g. the map of Mordor), the objects shown on it are not aligned on a surface. Mathematically speaking, The Internet map is a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Internet. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange themselves to each other…

impressive project by ‘ruslan enikeev’ called quite simply: the internet map

m / 14-08-2012 10:15 - tags: , ,