Showreel for the SprintCam v3 featuring cheerleaders, firebreathers and jello at 1000fps.
Short typography movies
Algorithm visualization
Visualizations of various sorting algorithms, cool stuff. The original program was written in python, it’s also available using canvas.
Google maps typography
Google maps typography. Rhett Dashwood culled a series of satellite images from the state of Victoria that resemble letterforms.
Infographic history of beer
Comic Sans documentary
A short student documentary about Comic Sans that Marc mentioned after my previous post.
H&FJ on typesetting large prime numbers
Hoefler & Frere-Jones explore typesetting the world’s largest prime number. The largest prime number has more than twelve million digits, and concluded that even one specific kern pair would save hundreds of feet.
Spiekermann’s tips
WSJ on Comic Sans
A Wall Street Journal article on Comic Sans, its lovers and its haters. Vincent Connare also gets the WSJ portrait treatment.
Saving newspapers with design
Can design save the newspaper?
Give power to designers. You can work for a small company, in a boring branch. You can have no budget, no people, but still can put your work to the highest possible level. Everyone can do it, you just need inspiration, vision and determination. And you need to remember, that to be good, is not enough.
A short, but inspiring TED presentation.