A Brief History of Punctuation
From the International Typeface Corporation comes a concise history of punctuation. Nifty!
Finally — a splash page that doesn’t suck.
How cool! An example of a splash page that doesn’t have to be boring by the second time you’ve seen it, the Met offers a new featured artwork at metmuseum.org daily. Sweet!
Papercut: a 3D typeface
It’s been pinging all over ‘blogland, since yesterday, but I’ll post a link here just because I think it’s amazing: Papercut.
I’ve had a hard time digging up a reasonable size look at this thing. Don’t miss the single letter posted on the AIGA site. There’s another peek at it here.
Big thanks to Todd Domney ’cause I discovered Papercut via his What Do I Know.
My brain’s on overdrive thinking how I could design/animate with this face. More! I must know more about this!
Further evidence that I’m a hack.
Contains artistic nudity and frank language. Buyer beware.
[Update: 09.02.2002 9pm]: It occurs to me that it’s pretty lame to just post a link and a “public nudity warning” without at least a short comment about why this piece blows me away.
Let’s just say I envy the creator their wanton imagination (and their l33t illustration skillz). It was just so cool stripping away the layers on this cthulian-slash-cubist figure and each time I thought I was done there was another layer.
[pout] I wish I had done that!
Car alarms are for the birds.
This is just about the coolest thing. An artist has created a car alarm that uses bird songs instead of synthetic tones. She even makes them mimic the standard cycle on an alarm. And they’re loud! Rock!
check it out here: NPR : The Call of the Wild Car Alarm
P.S. No, NPR, I didn’t apply for permission to link you. That’s not how the web works. Bite me.
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