whatever the heck we find cool

Eureka

Nicely designed science magazine. Really like the info graphics in there. Check pages 38-39.

The Letter-Heads

This just blew me away. Be sure you’re using a modern browser. I viewed in FF4 and Safari 5.

“To Be, Rather Than To Seem”

“To Be, Rather Than To Seem”

Source: statemottosproject.com

‘Inception’ pictogram movie poster (by Viktor Hertz)

‘Inception’ pictogram movie poster (by Viktor Hertz)

Source: Flickr / hertzen

HTML5 — Edition for Web Developers

“This HTML5 specification is like no other—It has been processed with you, the humble web developer, in mind.”

giving your dog a pill just got a lot cooler. visually speaking anyway…

giving your dog a pill just got a lot cooler. visually speaking anyway…

Source: files.dogster.com

BeerCamp at SXSW 2011

Check this out in your Safari browser for full effect. Pretty dope!

100 Days

Every day for 100 days, Jessica Vendsen created a variation on a Josef Müller-Brockmann poster for a Beethoven concert in Zürich in 1955.
This project was part of the Michael Bierut 100 Days Workshop at the Yale School of Art.

Dieter Rams: ten principles of good design

Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?

As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design. (Sometimes they are referred as the ‘Ten commandments’.)

Here they are.

CSS3’s logo, as part of the collateral created for HTML5
via http://www.w3.org/html/logo/

CSS3’s logo, as part of the collateral created for HTML5

via http://www.w3.org/html/logo/

Source: w3.org