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Observed #18: 1 May 2016

This edition, we have two Tel Aviv picks, vexillological infographics and a nifty tool for editing websites.

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tags: 99pi, tel aviv, israel story, jane bordeaux, uri lotan, ma'agalim, flags, ferdio, infographics, website editor, bookmarklet
categories: Audio, Data visualisation, Illustration, Tools, Video
Sunday 05.01.16
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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 #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 #14: 14 November 2014

Observed this week, there's an(other) animated alphabet, skeletons all the way down, Weezer's comeback, and a new animated show. Enjoy!

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tags: louis mallart, animation, alphabet, markus feder, trade gothic, typography, infinite corpse, exquisite corpse, surrealists, corpsey, skeleton, web comic, comic strip, weezer, everything will be alright in the end, buddy holly, island in the sun, frederator, cartoon hangover, bee, puppycat
categories: Typography, Illustration, Video, Audio, Music
Friday 11.14.14
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Observed #13: 7 November 2014

In this week's edition, we have craft, coffee, clowns, cities, and a non-alliterative 90s software flashback.

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tags: yasuo ozakaki, colossal, craft, woodturning, dolls, kokeshi, japanese, clowns, france, mime, hell's grannies, interactive, windows 93, zombectro, jankenpopp, rian van der merwe, elezea, coffee, urbanisation, data visualisation, lincoln institute of land policy, atlas of urban expansion, population, johannesburg, htxt
categories: Video, Reading, Big data, Art
Friday 11.07.14
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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 #8: 25 August 2014

My observing this week has been curtailed by multiple deadlines, but I did come across a few noteworthy tidbits, from a graphic identity combining hand lettering with edge painted cards to designer crab homes, as well as my current favourite working soundtracks and two beautiful animated shorts.

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tags: Apartment One, Pulaski, hand lettering, aki Inomata, 3d printing, hermit crabs, Lettering, Andrew bird, Mikey please, Alex Griggs, Rdio, Identity, Hideyuki Hashimoto, Adlin inc, edge painting, logo
categories: Graphic design, Art, Animation, Music, Video
Monday 08.25.14
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Observed #7: 16 August 2014

Slightly delayed after a week of deadline madness, it's this week's edition of Observed. We have handcrafted goodness in the form of paper aviation and vintage-inspired type, as well as a book that took me a year to read (I always read Taleb slowly) and fresh cartoons.

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tags: Powerpuff girls, cindy kinash, Antifragile, flying, Frederator, steampunk, Cartoon hangover, bee, Jules Verne, nassim taleb, spacebear, adventure time, fooled by randomness, True north, Daniel Agdag, manly, bravest warriors, puppycat, chainsaw Richard, paper, charles gibbons, cardboard, the black swan, cartoon, Industrial Age
categories: Art, Video, Typography, Reading
Saturday 08.16.14
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Observed #4: 18 July 2014

It's a mixed bag this week, featuring Twitter-serialised fiction, a Photoshop time-saver, mutual unsuspecting portraits, magic numbers and a rollercoaster zoom through Barcelona.

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tags: Photoshop, plugin, QuickGuide, guides, David Mitchell, twitter, short story, Barcelona, hyperlapse, timelapse, rob whitworth, serendipity, India, global village, numbers, Radiolab, Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich, typography, grid, layout, golden ratio, robert bringhurst, elements of typographic style
categories: Reading, Photography, Tools, Audio, Video
Friday 07.18.14
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