I’m loving the work of Andrew Archer, I just wish it was easier to browse all the illustrations. His blog shows some cool progress shots as well.

This made me smile.

Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold bookworms. Profs from Oxford show frosh who do post-docs how to gloss works of Wordsworth. Dons who work for proctors or provosts do not fob off school to work on crosswords, nor do dons go off to dorm rooms to loll on cots. Dons go crosstown to look for bookshops known to stock lots of top-notch goods: cookbooks, workbooks – room on room of how-to-books for jocks (how to jog, how to box), books on pro sports: golf or polo. Old colophons on schoolbooks from schoolrooms sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls – both on worn morocco.

Read more excerpts at this BBC article. I like the way the different paragraphs look with so many of the same vowels.

Zumi

Amazing. Apparently they shot 60,000 pictures and developed 9,000 prints in making this, and used no post production.

Zumi

These unwrapped flowers are pretty great. You can also grab the software to do it yourself.

A perfect day.

Zumi!

Canon Powershot + Adobe Photoshop

I haven’t tended to post personal things or life events here, but I wanted to share this photo and it deserves an explanation. I moved to Providence at the beginning of June to co-found a company with some friends. I’ve been here four weeks and am enjoying it; most parts have the same simple, small-city feeling that I like. I can bike a mile to work or to the grocery store, and two miles to the gym. There are quiet parks within walking distance and friendly people at coffee shops. I will only be here for the summer because I have one more year of school left at Michigan, but it’s good to learn about new places and meet new people. Life is good.

I’m enjoying the work of C. S. Neal, especially this poster. (via Jules)

You can also use * u for unread messages, or * a and * n for selecting and deselecting everything (respectively).

When you move around so fast and so much, bits of you flake off and stay everywhere you stop, and if you go too fast you get thin and confused and it’s hard to remember who you are or where you’re from because you’re so many people in so many places at once, all of them blending into each other and all of them blurring into nostalgia, and to get yourself back you need to stop moving and wait for the pieces to wander back into your town and your head and your body, and then you begin to remember and once you remember then you can get back to moving.

So good.

I’m loving the pictures and videos at California is a place. If you only watch one, make it Cannonball. And then Scrapertown.

Yes, it’s a real hotel in the Netherlands. More pictures at Design Milk.

It’s great to see people’s reactions to this “invisible chair” marketing stunt by KLM.

Is Chrome faster than a potato gun, sound waves, or lightning? Watch to find out.

Also: the behind-the-scenes video.

Some nice UX guidelines for Chrome and Chrome OS. I love how they’re completely rethinking the OS: everything from open/save dialogs to cursors (although the proposed cursors are pretty ugly).

Just finished Tufte’s The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (the whole thing, not just the sample on his site) and was pretty down on PowerPoint.

Then I read the New York Times’ We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint which also hates on PP a bit, although the title image isn’t really a PowerPoint slide, it’s a poorly designed diagram.

But then I ran across Note & Point, a collection of beautiful presentations. I think this shows that presentation aids are great when you use them correctly, which often means ditching the “title and bullets” theme and designing something that actually supports your talk.