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Month April 2008

Ellen Lupton on Good Typography.

Experiencing good typography is like walking into a well-lit room. You may not stop to analyze it, but good lighting makes you feel better, and if it makes a sudden change for the worse, you will know it.
— Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
I couldn’t agree more.

5 words I wish I had a reason to use in everyday, normal conversation.

Apropos
Expeditiously
Drygulch
MollyWhop
Attackative (not in the dictionary — YET)

Yup. They Glow In The Dark.

Via Sneaker Files who also stated that the design was inspired by the Air McFly’s which was talked about here AGES ago.

Crazy!

( via FFFound )

Nike Air Kanye’s

SICK.

Nike Air Kanye’s? *UPDATE*

*UPDATE*

Kanye’s been rocking these joints on tour. Pictured here is the Black Gray and Red colorway. 1 Word — SICK. They also look like they have that glow in the dark coating on them which.

* OG Post * – March 03, 2008

Yes. You heard right. Kanye is working with Nike on a custom sneaker. Kanye…

New York City Pillow Fight 2008

Yes. This is REAL. I don’t know why I missed it this year, but I’m definitely hitting this up next year. Click the image for the 5MB EXTRA LARGE VERSION.
Feathers fly and teddies soar as we gather for a massive urban pillow fight! Swing and whack as you evade pillow-wielding assailants. Bring a pillow to…

The 100 Mirrors Project.

The guys over at Lost In Tyme; A blog that unearths rare vinyl recordings of all genres, have come up with a great idea to help keep their project going while avoiding unfair terms of service attacks from an unknown user. Rather than recreating the blog over and over again on one account, they are…

The Rather Difficult Font Game – #44!

EXTRA Geeky I know.

33 Out Of 34. Consolas and Latinaires are two font names that I had never heard of before today. Incidentally they both showed up on the same question which caused my 1 wrong answer. I definitely thought I was gonna BOMB this thing. I’m sure once the real font guru’s get a…

Delete your Facebook account.

Ashley over at Upstart Blogger delivers this brilliant article about why you (and I) should delete your Facebook account.
…Delete your Facebook account now and stop generating page views and advertising revenues for someone else.
…The only way to really stand out on Facebook is to have nothing to do with it…
Read the full article here.
I couldn’t…