Do you know where Arial was created? Or what year Paul Renner designed Futura? How about who designed Bembo? No? No? No? And you call yourself a typography freak.
Luckily, Seattle designer Shelby White has created a lovely little crib sheet to the top 50 typefaces around. Here it is, in all its nerdish glory:
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If people really did judge books by their covers, Franz Kafka never would've sold a single copy. Ever. The design is always terribly bleak or dark or just skin-crawlingly weird.
If you read our site regularly, you know there are two ways to our heart: modern design and furry animals. It's only natural, then, that anything that combines the two makes us so giddy we could punch ourselves. Case in point: Chico, a shop in Japan for minimalist doggies.
Liquid hand soap is a sustainability no-no: Not only is the water therein wastefully used, but it's also pointlessly being shipped around the world, burning fossil fuels. Then again, soap bars are slimy and icky! Well, student designer Nathalie Stämpfli has you covered: her clever soap dispensers work just like the pumpable liquid versions, but they use solid bars instead.
images © Nathalie Stämpfli
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So you want to be a modern-day Rich Uncle Pennybags and convince your friends you've got better taste than Ronald Lauder and Karl Lagerfeld combined. Do we have the book for you!
Manhattan denizens sometimes describe the sounds of the subway as the city's incidental music. Now programmer/designer Alexander Chen has created a more soothing version with MTA.me, an interactive NYC subway map-turned-musical-instrument that uses transit lines as its strings.
How many times have you told yourself (especially when you're up at 2 a.m. on a Sunday night): "Eh, it's just sleep." Is it just sleep, though? What happens to your health when you're not sleeping enough?
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