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Observed #17: 27 March 2016

In this edition, best enjoyed over a cup of your favourite freshly brewed coffee: a film of a book, a parking-free future, a stunning video for my current favourite song, Mortal Kombat with scientists, and L.A.'s ghost streets.

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tags: the martian, andy weir, ridley scott, self-driving cars, parking, clive thompson, the chemical brothers, wide open, beck, dom&nic, the mill, science kombat, diego sanches, los angeles, ghost streets, maps
categories: Video, Reading, Design, Music, Illustration
Sunday 03.27.16
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Observed #16: 7 June 2015

Here for your enlightenment: a ridiculous, accurately scaled graph; a typeface that's equal parts Futura and Proxima Nova; a collection of plagiarised and inspired derivative works; a sting operation exposing bad science journalism; and my gushing about my favourite design book. Enjoy.

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tags: photography, cameras, khoi vinh, geomanist, copy anti-copy, marian bantjes, plagiarism, science, journalism, john bohannon, chocolate, frank chimero, the shape of design, design philosophy
categories: Data visualisation, Typography, Graphic design, Reading, Design
Sunday 06.07.15
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Observed #15: 15 March 2015

As I do every February, I spent a full three days recently observing interesting work at the Design Indaba conference. So I'm kicking things off again with a special Design Indaba-themed edition.

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tags: design indaba, ross cairns, tommaso lanza, the workers, after dark, where you are, visual editions, ambio, teresa van dongen, michael bierut, how to, pentagram, dominic wilcox, variations on normal, watch sculptures, yoni bloch, interactive, bob dylan, interlude
categories: Design, Graphic design, Video, Product design
Sunday 03.15.15
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Observed #12: 24 October 2014

Oops. October's been a whirlwind month. Between deadlines and a new team setup in the studio and lots and lots of days off for the Jewish festive season, my weekly link list has had to take a back seat. But here we are, back on the Observed wagon, with a bold type-driven identity, amazing wildlife photography, new music, old music origin tales, and Moby Dick as a Mole.

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tags: natural history museum, wildlife photographer of the year, wildlife, award, nature, typography, TGIF, pattern, two-colour, hong kong, john roderick, roderick on the line, systematic, brett terpstra, merlin mann, the long winters, alt-j, this is all yours, an awesome wave, china miéville, railsea, moby dick, moles, trains
categories: Audio, Design, Graphic design, Photography, Reading
Friday 10.24.14
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Observed #11: 22 September 2014

A glimpse of the business of design with ways to screw up a client presentation and client feedback for God, then a scientific ABC, algorithms in action, and a beautiful poem about dying.

 

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tags: feedback, slate, diagrams, clients, mike lacher, science, mcsweeney's, mike monteiro, algomation, dying, new yorker, khyati trehan, data visualisation, poetry, history, archimedes, tesla, edison, programming, comic sans, clive james, breakthroughs, client presentations, poem, japanese maple
categories: Reading, Big data, Design, Illustration, Typography
Monday 09.22.14
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Observed #10: 15 September 2014

This week we visit outer space: your brain doesn't know how big the moon is, and an astronaut is stuck on Mars. Also, amazing backlit paper cut dioramas, and tools to help you name stuff.

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categories: Video, Tools, Reading, Art, Design
Monday 09.15.14
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Observed #9: 8 September 2014

Kung Fu Fighting, watercolour crystals, data visualisations of ancient texts and a geometric pattern font, right here in this edition.

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tags: Asia, China, kung fu fighting, NPR, riff, song, stereotype, crystals, mineral admiration, karina eibatova, watercolour, birds, playing cards, sefaria, jewish, talmud, tanach, bible, data visualisation, ildikó valicsek, patterns, modular, geometric
categories: Audio, Art, Big data, Design
Monday 09.08.14
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