Sebastiaan de With details his creation of an icon set he did for Interarchy, Mac FTP client.
This is not helping my H&FJ addiction.
One of Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ finest emails: Four Techniques for Combining Fonts.
Keep finding myself returning to this roundup of 35 logos with transparency.
Deaxon »
Stunning little portfolio site for a studio that designs “web applications and native software for Apple devices.”
MetaLab Goes Open Source? »
We get ripped off a lot. I often spot a button image that’s been repurposed, or a layout that’s just a little bit too inspired by a previous design we’ve done. Generally, we find it really flattering and have a good laugh - if nothing else, it makes us feel that we’re probably doing something right if people are so eager to plagiarize. But earlier today a friend linked me to Mozilla’s new JetPack design and my jaw dropped.
The worst part: Mozilla contacted Metalab about this, asking for a proposal, months ago and decided not to pursue the project.
The Colosseo Letterpress poster is Cameron Moll’s latest, and most ambitious, poster design:
…The artwork was handcrafted character by character, totaling roughly 250 hours of work from start to finish. Characters from the Goudy Trajan and Bembo Pro typefaces form the Coliseum (or Colosseum), also known as today as Colosseo (Italian) and originally known as Amphitheatrum Flavium (Latin).
Shape My Language, a beautiful typographic exhibition by Bruno Maag:
The set-up of the exhibition is surprising to say the least. Long streams of clear plastic cards hang from the ceiling, engulfing the gallery visitors in a typographic mist.
The Panic Status Board - one of the things I’ve been working on lately. Read Cabel’s writeup!
This is a thing of pure beauty. We’re already seeing how we can do something similar at Ext.
Patrick Patience has posted a fantastic little summary of jailbreaking hacks over at Smoking Apples. He’s got some gorgeous themes and extensions working together, complete with links and extended info—it’s definitely worth taking a look.
