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Awesome Idea : MagCloud
MagCloud is a great new(er) site where one can publish, print, and sell your very own magazines for very little money, and this looks like a fantastic idea. The site is free to join, and free for people to buy. You just upload the PDF of your magazine and these guys print and ship to...
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Awesome Books : Dear Gretchen
Visualizing with handmade paper graphs the frequency of words, topics, and phrases in notes from childhood, Dear Gretchen is a fancinating and visually stimulating book put together by Gretchen, INC. Amazing. Check it out. PS: Her site is beautiful as well. Cheers!
280 Slides : Presentations on the Go
280 Slides is what I hope web interface and usability will evolve to. Bringing PowerPoint to the web, 280 Slides allows presentation building, sharing, downloading, and importing solely online, without software or a fee. I work in education, and a problem we face all the time is portability of class work and using PowerPoint in...
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Sesame Street Animation @ Hulu
Over on Hulu, you can watch a bunch of Sesame Street clips, which is sweet. But what is even sweeter is that they have a BUNCH of their animations, which just totally made my days. These where always some of my favorite parts of the show as a kid QUESTION: Does anyone else get this...
Coolest thing I’ve seen in awhile…
You know, they teach you as a kid that chameleons change color, but until you’ve seen one walk across a set of old school Ray Ban sunglasses, and see it for yourself, you really haven’t lived. I freakin’ love Nature
Grain Edit : Frank Chimero Interview
Frank Chimero, one of my favorite contemporary illustrators and designers, has a great interview over at Grain Edit. Talking about his inspiration for work, his history as an artist, and working at Missouri State (whoop whoop Springfield!), it’s a great interview. He also goes through the development steps he used for the newest addition to...
Web Wednesday : Design Inspiration
I’m an obessive collector. I’ll admit that. But what I’ve found as I’ve work in the design arena/read design blogs, is that almost everyone in this business is as well. That almost everyone has a folder filled with brochures or a binder full of magazine ads. And this is comforting. So this week’s Web Wednesday...
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Movies to See : Away We Go
Today, I asked myself, “Why don’t you post more stuff about movies that are awesome?” And I had no reply. It is true-I freakin’ love movies, just like every other person on this planet that has ever experienced the joy of sitting in a dark theatre with strangers and eaten popcorn out of a tub*....
Look what I found…
Ben Gibbard * plaid shirt + John Krasinski / Celtics = best Last.fm photo ever. You’re welcome.
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Take-Away Shows : Andrew Bird
Produced by La Blogotheque out of Paris, The Take-Away Shows are a series of super low-fi music videos filmed in some of the most awesomest places, featuring some of today’s best and brightest. The artist role includes people like The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, Beurit, Man Man, David Bazan, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone,...