8 month ago
plasticbag : Design Within Reach's frame-less hourglass is, "an elegant solution for timing any activity that lasts for 45 minutes" - It's hard to know how to respond to that, except to say that honestly, how many things last exactly forty-five minutes. I suppose you could time the TV shows you're watching.
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11 month ago
plasticbag : Pictures of an extraordinary looking bookshop from Maastricht - I wonder what kinds of books they sell. I wonder what kind of use these buildings will be put to next when the book shifts technologically in whichever way that change will manifest.
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11 month ago
plasticbag : Five unbelievably cool research facilities - Hard to disagree with the sentiment here. Stunning and extraordinary buildings doing amazing things, revealing again humanities fascination for large structures with some aspect of replication or organic form. Yum.
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11 month ago
plasticbag : I really really want to own this duvet cover. I think it's awesome. - I'm really looking forward to getting a new flat and it being a nicer canvas upon which I can elaborate. I haven't really spent any time on a home in years. This will be a nice change, hopefully.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Linzie Hunter's spam one-liners are just extraordinarily good. She takes spam subject lines and turns them into typographic art. - They're really lovely. She made some Moo cards with them and they looked awesome and I'm wondering if the Moo crew should try and bring her on as one of their regular designers.
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15 month ago
nelson : Design portfolio - Crazy UI for some modern digital design
Khoi Vinh : Kashiwa Sato - Beautiful design portfolio. I think it’s a design portfolio, anyway.
plasticbag : Absolutely beautiful portfolio-style site (in Flash) by Kashiwa Sato - Flash has its place as componentised blocks on HTML, addressable pages. Here it basically occupies those pages completely, but is still beautiful.
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17 month ago
jonhicks : Mark Boulton Design - Mark launches his new work site, and its everything I want in my site, but don't have,
Richard Rutter : Mark Boulton Design - Mark’s new business site is a beauty.
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20 month ago
plasticbag : London's Kerning is a huge—and I suspect quite beautiful—poster recreating a map of London out of typography... - It's £100. I'm really tempted. I wonder how much it would cost to get framed. Probably a hell of a lot more money than I've got available at the moment...
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21 month ago
jimray : Sayaka's prints are beautiful and downright sexy - Curses self for not reading Japanese...
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26 month ago
jimray : Limbo, an absolutely beautiful looking game - I love the atmosphere - if there were more games like this, I'd be a gamer
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27 month ago
jimray : DP Review has an "exclusive preview" of the Leica M8 - A thing of beauty. At $4800, it had better be. (Dear Santa, I like the silver one...)
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deusx : YouTube - The Little Girl Giant - "On the morning of Sunday 7th May the little girl giant woke up at Horseguards Parade in London, took a shower from the time-traveling elephant and wandered off to play in the park."
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30 month ago
plasticbag : Lost-theories.com - an astonishingly well made repository of information and theories about the TV series - It's a beautiful and solid piece of design, and I believe was built using my colleague's Django framework. Very nice indeed.
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jimray : Ari Magg - Really gorgeous photographs, nice site. I want to go to Iceland now.
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32 month ago
plasticbag : 'The essence of rabbit' is a shrine to the Illustrators love of bunnies - It includes some work by the lovely Denise Wilton and a mandala featuring hundreds of different rabbits
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Typography for Headlines - Bit old this, but still good - a collection of many examples of typographic treatments of headlines on the web. Particularly good for ideas and for iterating around to find something new.
Andy Baio : Typography for Headlines - I'd love to see a site like GUIdebook for web UI elements [via]
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Ryan Carson's new project 'Vitamin' (A resource for web developers, designers and entrepreneurs) has launched and looks pretty awesome - Beautiful bits of design work, some extremely cool people commenting and supporting the venture and cartoons by Hugh McLeod. Altogether a pretty interesting looking site.
Simon Willison : Vitamin - Lovely new web design magazine site from Ryan Carson and friends.
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33 month ago
plasticbag : "The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud brick building in the world and is considered by many architects to be the greatest achievement of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style" - Absolutely extraordinary - I've been watching images of this programme on TV and it's quite extraordinary how it fits in with the environment around it, and how well suited to purpose it is. Craftsmanship and design together...
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34 month ago
plasticbag : "Generation Church ☆ Taking the Reality of God to This Generation" - Pretty much loving the star in the title bar, and the general CSS-elegance and stunning textural design of this site. Obviously I'm pretty much ignoring the specious religious rubbish that's written all over it, but hey...
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34 month ago
jimray : God bless Vanity Fair - Even if they did have to include Tom Ford
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Ferrofluid Sculptures by Sachiko Kodama - Ferrofluid can be manipulated and turn solid in response to magnetic fields. Skip past the writing on the page to the link just above the comments - there's a video that will demonstrate this extraordinary material in action.
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36 month ago
erikbenson : After a whale dies, it falls to the bottom of the ocean and creates a crazy ecosystem. - That ecosystem sustains many species of worms and other creatures that survive solely off of dead whales, hopping from one carcass to the next for millions of years. So strange!
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36 month ago
erikbenson : Learn about whale falls. - They are so awesome!
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36 month ago
plasticbag : Bodytag - a glorious selection of explorations in web programming, visualisation and play - Mr Willison, co-worker extraordinaire, introduced me to this cornocopia of beautiful fragments of insight and play. Very very classy indeed. Yay the web!
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37 month ago
plasticbag : A video of strange things you can do with air, weird liquids and vibrations... - It starts off slow, but the last thirty seconds or so are absolutely mesmerising and extraordinary. A definite must-see...
François Nonnenmacher : Amazing Liquid
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