Link love for October 29

Shoot from edge to edge with the Lomo Sprocket Rocked Panorama camera (above).

That Spunky Sound 0.12 particle synthesizer.

Link love for August 10, part 2

The origins of abc (above).

OpenIDEO

Where did the money to rebuild Iraq go? (infographic)

Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary.

Amon Tobin records The Foley Room (video).

Why the next big pop-culture wave after cupcakes might be libraries.

An archive of MTV’s ’120 Minutes’.

Handwriting and flourish art.

Ford films found in Kiwi vault.

Researchers create the world’s first synthetic cell.

Link love for August 17th

We Are The Friction (above) is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators

Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

A short manifesto on the future of attention.

The mystery of Times New Roma.

Finalists for the 2009 James Dyson Award.

Lessons from slime mold: how to survive and thrive in ever-changing organizational environments.

Top twenty finalists of ReBurbia, a suburban design competition.

Growing ideas in the garden of innovation.

Photos of the last suppers of inmates on death row in the USA.

The Font-as-Service.

Bruce Handy on Mad Men.

Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland.

Link love 2009-05-14

WANT: Victorinox Travel Alarm 1884 Limited Edition (above)

If you can’t buy it legally, of course you’ll download it: Staggered film releases no longer work in a global economy and are to blame for the rise of pirate websites.

How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules, by Malcolm Gladwell.

7 tips for a good portfolio.

Glitch Sequencer: Cellular automaton based MIDI sequencer.

Font Squirrel offers handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.

LOST labels for your DHARMA Initiative needs.

Wolfram|Alpha intends to be a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.

Mega-Regions and High-Speed Rail, by Richard Florida.

Pacemaker is a revolutionizing music player and mixer with all the features you need to deejay anywhere, anytime.

Rare Book Room as an impressive collection of hi-res images of full ancient books,

Typography is content

Lately I’ve been musing about the importance of typography in design. For me, the choice and relationship of font families is key to both the visual style of an individual project and the overall brand identity of the organization. Just like art and photo direction, color palette, arrangement & page layout, and ink & paper selection, typography is an essential element of visual communication. For me, typography is content.

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