Motion must support the essence and meaning of an identity, not trivialise it.

Type Trivia

The typeface Meta was designed for the German post office and never used.

Let’s talk about hex baby.

         
For all the time I’ve been on the web, I’ve never been able to remember if #000000 was white or if #FFFFFF was black. Or vice versa.
Thanks to HB for this explanation of sexy codes:
so, it’s split up like #RRGGBB
each pair is a hex value between 0 and 255
it’s just a basic RGB space color mixer

Here’s hoping it sticks this time. 

T-shirt

Keep that T uppercase, or else it’s no longer a T-shirt. 

I Moo You

Not sure why it sprung to my mind this evening, however, last week I learned about a spectacular activity in the Netherlands. Casually, over an ES lunch, Esther joked that she might go cow hugging over the weekend. I took it as another (unique?) example of Dutch humour.

Marvelously and much to my disbelief, cow hugging is the real deal.

The Dutch have a reputation for being one of the happiest nations in the world, perhaps this is their secret. When you’re feeling down, pop over here and for €25 you can have your own little cow cuddle.

duck duck platypus

How much thought did you give to the duck-billed platypus today? Hold up–NONE?

Don’t let the adorable face below fool you, as Alex [Youtube videographer/Ecologist] informed me this evening: they are bad ass.  

It has sensors that detect the electromagnetic fields of other animals helping them hunt for prey and avoid predators.

- Alex Geasley 

Platypus


Sensors! In it’s beak! Like a BMW or something! So even though this guy might be notoriously shy, it would have a pretty amazing car insurance policy.

learning to let go (on learning)

…These recent advances can seem overwhelming to keep up with: HTML5! CSS3! Responsive Web Design! Mobile! Web Fonts! Grids! It’s become impossible to keep up with everything. And that’s why I’ve learned to let go and focus on incrementally folding these new ways of thinking into daily work as I grasp them—while at the same time trying not to worry about everything being perfect or solving a problem “correctly.”

Dan Cederholm, Founder, SimpleBits

1987

The year the animated GIF and myself were born.

The Japanese seem to have a word for everything. Instead of ignoring the awkward topics, they slap a name on it. Take Karoshi, meaning: death from overwork. What creeped me out a little was upon googling it, for more information, one of the top search results was this: Quite a number of games involve death. However, how often do you find a game where the aim is to kill yourself–and not others? We’ve seen (and LOLd at) countless videos like this, where dudes frrrrrreak out during shooting games.   Accordingly, which is a scarier: a bunch of kids filled with rage to kill others, or to kill themselves? Back to Karioshigame.com. I mean, they’re hitting all the mind-bendy angles. You’re ‘playing’ a game about working, and, “forget everything you’ve learned about video games. In Karioshi, the goal is to die.” My diagnosis? TGIF. 

The Japanese seem to have a word for everything. Instead of ignoring the awkward topics, they slap a name on it. Take Karoshi, meaning: death from overwork. What creeped me out a little was upon googling it, for more information, one of the top search results was this:

Quite a number of games involve death. However, how often do you find a game where the aim is to kill yourself–and not others? We’ve seen (and LOLd at) countless videos like this, where dudes frrrrrreak out during shooting games.  

Accordingly, which is a scarier: a bunch of kids filled with rage to kill others, or to kill themselves?

Back to Karioshigame.com. I mean, they’re hitting all the mind-bendy angles. You’re ‘playing’ a game about working, and, “forget everything you’ve learned about video games. In Karioshi, the goal is to die.”

My diagnosis? TGIF.