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This is the blogging equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel: a collection of poorly English-translated warning signs.
03.21.2013
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Christoph Niemann turns what would otherwise be a boring pitch to buy his app into a humorous and insightful look at how he built his app. (Buy it.)
03.20.2013
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Interactive March Madness bracket filled out by professional-he-called-it-er Nate Silver “estimating each team’s chance of advancing to any given stage of the N.C.A.A. bracket.”
03.20.2013
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Either sobering, empowering, or discouraging depending on where you find yourself: “The Creative Employment Snapshot, an infographic presentation of the current state of employment in design, creative and interaction fields based on more than ten thousand submissions to the Design Salary Guide.” From Coroflot
03.20.2013
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by armin
Born of Sound visualizes sound to create stunning “sound-forms”. Shown: the sound of a fiddle.
03.20.2013
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So you know: the proper ratio of bangs to face for the perfect hipster complexion.
03.19.2013
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by armin
I love this idea: “Free Desk Here.” Design agencies make a desk available for free to a person (the “guest”) they choose. Guest works on his/her own projects and benefits from office infrastructure. Agencies, I guess, kind of get like a pet guinea pig.
03.19.2013
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“1995 style” is a new mash-up meme that reinterprets the opening title sequences of contemporary shows like Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad (shown) redone as Friends like, feel-good openers.
03.19.2013
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Dozens of TIME covers in 120 seconds. You don’t even have to watch it to know it’s awesome.
03.19.2013
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