Imagine, if you will, a world in which Richard Seaver or Robert Gottlieb had stomped their feet and huffed and puffed every time John Leonard forgot to give them their proper “↬”. Or rather, as I joked on Twitter over the weekend about the new “Curator’s Code,” if Goethe had lived long enough to…
Good design could have been made better had we grasped the benefits of the flexible foundation years earlier.
A quick look at five useful CSS selectors to keep in mind when styling for the web.
There are over 400 typefaces in the Google web fonts directory. Many of them are awful. But there are also high-quality typefaces that deserve a closer look.
Wow. Just, wow. Great, rousing performance.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis performing on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series.
Brand new covers for five of George Orwell’s works feature in a new series published today by Penguin and designed by David Pearson. The set includes a remarkable take on Orwell’s most well known novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four… (via Creative Review - Orwell, covered up)
Set to open in early 2013 the University of the Arts Helsinki (“Taideyliopisto” in Finnish) is the new organizational name for the merger of three existing universities: the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, the Sibelius Academy (music) and the Theatre Academy Helsinki. The first two were established in the mid to late 1800s while the latter in 1979, and together they have around 2,000 enrolled students. The new name was accepted in January and this week they introduced their identity, designed by Helsinki-based Bond.
(via Brand New)
The entire A.V. Club Undercover series is worth checking out, but this one’s probably my personal favorite. One of my recent favorite bands (The Mountain Goats) covering one of my favorite songs (Boxcar) by one of my top three all-time favorite bands (Jawbreaker).
Did I mention this is a favorite?
John Gruber walks us through the process:
Old (non-retina) favicons are 16 × 16 px; a retina favicon is thus 32 × 32 px. The lazy way to support retina is to replace your old 16 px favicon.ico file with a 32 px file, and allow non-retina browsers to scale the image. The proper solution, however, is to create a single favicon.ico file containing two icon resources: one 16 × 16, the other 32 × 32.
“Snowfall” (by Tom Carmony)
This is one of my favorite recent photos of the boy. Taken last weekend at the California Academy of Sciences.
