NYT op-ed on a proposal to radically simplify and standardize credit card information disclosure in order to help customers better understand what they’re getting into. I love this idea, inspired in part by the FDA’s nutrition facts standards — it’s good design that helps empower people.
In awe of The Beatles: Rock Band opening cinematic by the consistently out-of-this-world Passion Pictures.
This is amazing. Watch it in HD at the link above. Watch it now.
William Morris
Larkspur Press prints Kentucky books the old-fashioned way — with a real impact type, on fine paper, with hand-sewn bindings. We share some authors with them, but they mainly publish poetry and short fiction, with beautiful handmade engravings.
They serve an entirely different market than we do, but I’ve always loved their books. Perhaps I should organize a field trip to visit them.
A clip from Buffy the Animated Series has found its way onto the Web. Why couldn’t one of the big networks have picked this one up? (via Jack Shedd)
A cool little bit of JavaScript that shows how much a little copy editing and concision can change a piece of writing. (via matthewb)
From this Wikipedia article while doing research for a press release. I guess we just name it after the people we don’t like? (My internship is teaching me the most fascinating things.)
The manhut. Want!
A beautiful and brilliant on what’s happening on the Internet these days. And set in a nice font! (via livejamie)
A manifesto of sorts about removing junk from blogs. Worth a read.
Everybody hurry and add Andy Gilmore to your feed readers. We need to get this kid on Tumblr, stat.
Wow. That stuff’s amazing.
This site is genius.
