According to Wikipedia, China is as a country the third largest book publisher in the world, and some of these books have wonderful covers. Ephemera Assemblyman has a post with a great list of cool vintage chinese books covers.
Type designers often try to make analogies between fonts and people or other objects, for example “if fonts were humans” or “dogs as typefaces“. Mary Huang took this idea one step further, she created a software that turns your face into a font. Basically, what this program does is to translate your facial dimensions to turn it into a custom font. Check out the project on this page.
One of my favorite aspects of design in general is that it helps to improve the most commons items of our daily life. The following electric plugs and concepts illustrate this quite well, they all try to improve the usability and/or the look-and-feel of an appliance we use every day.
1. Plug & Play
Handing out your business card is a more crucial moment than it appears, it’s the perfect time for you to make a good first impression on your prospects. For your inspiration, take a look at these cool and creative business cards.
1. Apalacorp
Infographics are visual illustrations communicating information by means of signs, symbols, icons, maps and diagrams. When these graphics are animated they can be used to represent complex situations and tell stories, or they can address social comment, satire and subversion. At their best, infographics in motion can be informative, involving, funny and at times surprisingly touching. This post brings together fourteen examples of these stunning animations.
1. Grand Tour of the Known Universe
This is a truly awesome infographic animation revealing the scale of the known universe in relation to our home planet. Astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History have mapped and constantly update and maintain the Digital Universe Atlas, a four-dimensional map of the cosmos, created using the latest scientific data. Based on this map, the movie takes the viewer on a mesmerising voyage from the Himalayas to the furthest reaches of known space and time, with every galaxy, star, planet, moon and satellite accurately scaled and positioned according to current knowledge.
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