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American Specimen Book of Type Styles
“The Internet Archive is hosting a copy of the American Specimen Book of Type Styles put out by the American Type Founders Company in 1912. It's a 1300-page book listing hundreds of typefaces and their possible use cases.”
via kottke.org
PROM NIGHT
PROM NIGHT was official selection at SXSW 2011 and Rooftop Film Festival 2011. It received a Special Jury Award for the dancing at Videofest24. http://celiarowlsonhall.tumblr.com/
What a beautiful and simple short film. I highly recommend fully immersing yourself in it with the lights off and full-screened.
VALUCO Font Design by Aesthetic Apparatus
Aesthetic Apparatus is raising funds for VALUCO Font Design on Kickstarter! Aesthetic Apparatus needs your assistance in bringing this fussy, ultra-display, beveled typeface to life!
Bringing dimensionality to the face of fonts through crowd-sourced funding. This could be the future. Will I need special glasses?
Acumenium
Alex and Ed bring online their company portfolio. Including some very polished works, like LEGO page redesign, which won the WEBBY last year.
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.
900 dpi scans of Posters from the WPA (The Works Progress Administration) Era.
Note & Point
A gallery devoted to making your Keynote & Powerpoint presentations look that much better
I really hope that this site takes off and the experience of having to look through corporate "decks" greatly improves.
GUI templates designed by RepixDesign
Start design or develop your own iPad apps, Android applications or websites with these unique user interface templates
I like the idea of great designers simply selling their designs. I feel like people are more and more getting to a place where they enjoy consistency with their applications anyway, so even if there are a number of apps out there using the same icons and textures, I think it can only help the end-user.
Recent Work | laurasgallery.com
Beautiful works from Laura Ball.
Surfstation