Points of View (POV) is a Herman Miller series sharing architects’ perspective on design. Directed by Hello Design, POV provides five different California architects’ step by step process from approach and design development to materials choices. Architects include Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner of Marmol Radziner, Kim Coleman of Cigolle X Coleman, James Meyer of LeanArch, Jim Jennings of Jennings Architecture, and John Friedman of JFAK Architects — via ArchDaily
Typekit is one of the easiest ways to get fancy fonts working on your website. Just sign up for an account, pick a font and paste a few lines of code into your pages. TypeKit takes care of the rest, ensuring that your fonts load and there’s no unsightly flash of unstyled content (FOUT) or other problems.
There is, however, one possible problem with the default way of embedding Typekit fonts. If the TypeKit code fails to load, it can slow down the rest of your site. Typekit avoids FOUT by pausing your page load for a fraction of a second, but if the Typekit script never finishes loading, that fraction of a second can turn into many seconds. While Typekit has excellent uptime, let’s face it, outages happen, and we understand if you don’t want to hang your own site’s fate on another — via Webmonkey
Inspired by comic strips and hated by font designers, new research suggests Comic Sans may help people remember what they read.
Comic Sans was released by Microsoft in 1994, as a font that looked friendly and childlike but most importantly did not look techie
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But the font does not enjoy overwhelming support. A few years ago there was an internet campaign to have it banned, and there are forums where designers and typographers whinge about the font’s awkward weighting and haphazard kerning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There was much speculation whether this would be the first million dollar Rolex, and yes indeed the record setting Rolex wristwatch sold for $1,163,340 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Draw shapes, modify spacing, adjust kerning, compare font weights and glyph variations all in the same view mode. See your letterforms as live text before exporting the font — via Glyphs
The Usonian is a computer enclosure designed in the architectural style of Frank Lloyd Wright, with window walls modelled on the Bachman-Wilson house. Creator Jeffrey Stephenson adds: The colors are FLW’s favorite, Cherokee Red, and Covered Wagon, the color of Falling Water’s cantilevered balconies
— via Boing Boing
A group of London designers got together with a theme, Brothers Grimm, to exhibit and create events with our personal work. Each event is based on a Brothers Grimm tale — via Duffy London
Check out this lively, modern chicken coop by Nicole Starnes Taylor of MAKE Design Studio. Taylor designed it for three chickens and their owners in urban Seattle. With a screen floor and castors, the mobile hen house fertilizes the underlying ground. Also, the coop has a hinged door for easy access and can be used as a chicken tractor if need be. Taylor built the 15 square-foot coop with salvaged framing lumber — via Jetson Green
Whether it’s recipes, driving directions, or complex mechanic’s work, Tildee‘s free tutorial creator can help make laying out all the steps easy. Tutorials on the site can be searched, browsed, and viewed as well.
Web typography used to be something of an oxymoron, but recent browser advances and tools like Typekit have helped bring web typography out of the dark ages with custom fonts. Thanks to JavaScript libraries like Lettering.js you can tweak those custom fonts — targeting specific words or letters — and adjust them to your liking.
Lettering.js even makes it possible to do custom kerning on the web. Kerning refers to the space between characters in proportional width fonts. CSS has long offered the letter-spacing property, but because it applies to an entire element — for example an h2 tag — what you’re really doing with letter-spacing is adjusting the tracking.
Some would call it slave labour, others a labour of love, but the result has a strength and durability to match the remarkable amount of time spent putting it together, link by link. If it sounds shockingly archaic, just remember: part of craft is the act of making — the finished product, for many, is an after-effect of that Zen-like construction process.
The shape itself is a play on the construction itself — a two-dimensional flooring lifted into three dimensions through components with structural density and height-maintaining stability. Three colours come from electroplated coatings, while galvanised steel wire is used throughout. Designed by Philippe Malouin and company — via Dornob
It’s got eight arms, and they all want to bring it in for some love — via BustedTees
Designed with static publishing systems in mind (like the popular Ruby on Rails tool, Jekyll), Tapir handles search through RSS and JavaScript without the overhead of a database on your own server. Tapir offers a JSON-based API and relies on Tire behind the scenes (which is powered by Elasticsearch, which in turn is powered by Lucene).
To use Tapir all you need to do is write a simple JavaScript-based search form, query the Tapir index for your site and then parse out the results to display for your visitors — via Webmonkey
Italian design studio CROP have created the PomPon chair.
Description from the designers:
It is a large armchair-pouf, produced entirely by hand stitching and twisting strips of wool fabric, linen and cotton. The creation was inspired by the technique of wool pompoms, proposed here in a
oversizedversion. Analternativeseating, light though slightly large, to be located in any atmosphere and strictly covered in natural yarns. In this case the wool is obtained from the recyclage of 2700m of selvages, waste material from the textile production. The seating consists of two elements: a doughnut and a pompom, which can be used together or separately, depending on the different usage, assembled by simple insertion
— via CONTEMPORIST
Italian design/e-commerce platform Stylemylife — who brought us Max Battaglia & Matteo Mochi’s Pratonzolo — is back with Size
, a chair made out of coat hangers — via Core77
No matter how engaging the actors or riveting the plot, sometimes, you’re distracted by something else in a film: a dramatic architectural setting that’s so dazzling, it’s practically a character in itself. We can’t help but drool over Jackie Treehorn’s Malibu Beach manse in The Big Lebowski and covet Mia Wallace’s stylish living room in Pulp Fiction. These 13 (mostly) real modern houses featured in major films are memorable even when the movies are not, despite – in some cases – only appearing for a moment or two — via WebUrbanist
Dr Grordbort is pleased to announce the release of the Saboteur 66: a rather stealthy aether oscillator — via Brass Goggles
New Toys for Melancholics is a solo show by Pop Surrealist sculptor and philosopher
Gabriels. The toys are made from polished hand-crafted bronze, life-like glass eyes, and scores of tiny internal intricate elements and organs
. It’s opening 6 May at the Toy Art Gallery in Los Angeles — via Boing Boing
The Cut Chair provides a stable place to sit, but creates an optical illusion that tells you otherwise.
A plate concealed by a thick carpet allows a robust cantilevered seat. Three well placed leg stumps
and the chair looks as though it has just been magically sliced apart — via Peter Bristol
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