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Cameron Booth:

Drawing my cues from the original and best metro diagram, H.C. Beck’s wonderful London Underground diagram, I have rendered the Interstate system in a much simpler form. I have made the “major” highways (those divisible by 5) the framework of the map, with the “minor” highways reduced in importance and rendered as thinner grey lines. Even with these highways, a difference in the greys indicates whether they are even-numbered (west-east) or odd-numbered (north-south). Dots on the highways indicate interchanges: large dots where major highways meet other major highways, smaller dots where major meets minor and tiny dots where minor highways begin or end.

I love the new Magic Mouse however I really missed the center click and squeeze. There is a way to closely mimic those actions under the “Expose & Spaces” preference panel. Set an action by holding down any combination of shift+control+option and/or command with “Second mouse click” and you’ll regain similar functionality that the “Mighty Mouse” had.

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This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when color catalogs were at their height. Taken from a Dutch collection, this exuberant selection traverses the evolution of the printed letter in all its various incarnations via exquisitely designed catalogs displaying not only type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad, but also characters, borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations as well as often spectacular examples of the use of the letters. The Victorian fonts, sumptuous and sometimes unbelievably outrageous, are accorded a prominent place in this book. In addition to lead letters, examples from lithography and letters by window-dressers, inscription carvers, and calligraphers are also displayed and described.

MacHeist nanoBundle contains 6 great Mac Apps, ShoveBox, Twitterrific, WriteRoom, TinyGrab, Hordes of Orcs and Mariner Write, all for free. It’s never a bad idea to grab some free apps when you can.

Fonts in Time and Space – Typographic video designed by Gretel. See the original video.

benjaminf:

Visions of Earth | Shodo Shima, Japan - Huddled for warmth, macaques press their bodies into a vast ball of fur. The monkeys’ relaxed social hierarchy allows high- and low-ranking individuals to share the same tight space.

Visions of Earth 2008 – The Earth is such a beautiful place.

benjaminf:

Visions of Earth 2009

Bella Sicilia

benjaminf:

Amasis was designed by Ron Carpenter in 1992.

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