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Quip’d back in 2011, Kevin Finn’s trivia game, DESIGNerd, is now available as an iOS app.
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by ricardo cordoba
Aravrit, a typographic project “of a utopian nature” by Liron Lavi Turkenich, combines the upper half of Arabic glyphs with the lower half of Hebrew characters. The name Aravrit itself combines the words for Arabic and Hebrew (“Ivrit”). “In Aravrit, one can read the language he or she chooses, without ignoring the other one, which is always present.” (More about the project here.)
08.07.2014
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by ricardo cordoba
Peter Mendelsund has two new books out this week… Here is an excerpt from one of them, the monograph Cover.
08.07.2014
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Design Observer has an excerpt from Jason Santa Maria’s new book, On Web Typography, just published by A Book Apart.
08.07.2014
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by armin
Judgmental Maps of various cities. A collection started and edited by Trent Gillaspie.
08.07.2014
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Meet Chango, a 5-year-old pit bull from Chicago with style to spare. One of the best Instagram accounts you could follow.
08.07.2014
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This looks like any convenience store but with one big difference: all products (4,000 of them) are made from felt, knitted by Lucy Sparrow and displayed in an abandoned corner shop in east London as a temporary exhibit.
08.07.2014
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Working On My Novel by Cory Arcangel is a book that has collected tweets of people working on their novel. Published by Penguin.
08.06.2014
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Matt De Lanoy recreates The Simpsons’ Springfield in LEGO. Link goes to a great Flickr set showing individual buildings and objects.
08.06.2014
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