Raphael Boguslav - Logo Design & Calligraphic Lettering
A calligrapher that created some very famous logos. I think you could use the graphics on this site to chart the DNA of design through the 60s to early 90s.
10 Bullets. By Tom Sachs (by tomsachsmovies)
I appreciate rules like this in collaborative environments, especially the one about not disturbing the other people working.
(via hacker news)
The problem with “Fail early, fail often” self-help mantra is that no one really follows up on it. They don’t tell you why something failed and what they learned from it. They always seem too busy to move on to the next punch line in slide #2 or get you to share the link on facebook.
On snot and fonts
The Whole Earth Catalogue of fonts and typography. Run by Luc Devroye, a computer science professor in Montreal.
Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing
Talking about the new ways of organizing a company around creation, now that just plain repetition is so easy.
(via Kottke.org)
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(wanna acknowledge some michael deforge influence on that antelope thing!!)
Great low-poly modelling. Check out the full tumblr for it all.
Aaron Draplin gives a 50-minute talk about how to make things, with a point a minute (via 37signals blog).
The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited
In-depth examination of the problems involved with rendering fonts at small sizes on computer screens.
Floating Point | Random ASCII
A deep look into the mechanics of floating-point number usage.
