Infographic Of The Day: Watch The World’s Snapshot Activity In 2011

Holidays are usually full of work-free fun, social events, family time--and lots of camera flashes. Respites from the office go hand in hand with the impulse to document them, as this video of a year in snapshots, created by Triposo.com, makes clear.

Well, sort of. At first blush, the visualization appears to be a pulsating light display, until you zero in on significant dates. For example, on January 1, the entire world celebrates.

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So Clever: Ron Paul Campaign Vid Uses Obama’s Typeface Against Him

So Clever: Ron Paul Campaign Vid Uses Obama’s Typeface Against Him

You may not know it by name, but even non-type-geeks know it when they see it: Gotham, the typeface designed by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, which the Obama campaign used to brand the president during his 2008 campaign. Now it’s 2012 and we’re gonna be seeing a lot more Gotham from the Obama camp. But not just them. Ron Paul’s political action committee has dramatized an incendiary, Obama-criticizing speech that Paul gave using animated typography . . .

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