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This Is My Home
A collector’s home in Manhattan often gets mistaken as a vintage shop, where in actuality it’s 32 years worth of picking and antiquing. Nice little story. Link: This Is My Home →
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Chicago Past
Archived photography displaying Chicago’s past taken from the Library of Congress. Hard to believe these are from the same city we see today, especially any showing the World’s Fair. Link: Chicago Past →
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Stop Talking, Start Making
Start Making is a nice resource for those looking for quick, useful motivation to “stop talking, start making.” This includes Mario Batali, David Kelly and Michael Bloomberg. I see it as the much...
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A Million Dots
This is just cool. The making of ‘Hero’, a drawing composed of over 3 million dots of artist Miguel Endara’s father using a single Sakura Pigma Micron pen. 4.25 dots per second and 210 hours later, we...
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Type Connection
Here’s a fun, new way to look at the long tradition of typeface pairing. There have been general guides in the past covering this topic, but I can’t remember one that lets us experiment and guess, all...
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Objectified
So I’m a little late to this documentary, but I finally was able to sit down and watch Objectified the other day and I loved it. I’ve long been a fan of Gary Hustwit’s other film Helvetica, so it comes...
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Paper
I’ve been playing with the new Paper app over the last week and realize that it is hands down the best “sketching” app I’ve used yet. Previously I’ve tried Adobe Ideas and Sketch by 37 Signals, but...
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The Responsinator
Testing responsive designs isn’t always the most easy or fun task to do within a browser, and often requires a painstaking level of attention to detail. At least there are tools out there like The...
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Graph Typeface
A few years back, I would have never looked to typefaces for my graph making needs. Enter FF Chartwell is a typeface for creating simple graphs using OpenType technology. As shown in the video tutorial...
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Chicago Neighborhood Tees
I found these Chicago neighborhood T-shirt designs to be pretty slick and simple, although certain neighborhoods appear to be missing from the list. Link: Chicago Neighborhoods →
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