A worthy watch from talented Jessica Hische.
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Recorded at Build 2011.
Achieving a thorough grasp of typography can take a lifetime, but moving beyond the basics is within your reach right now. In this talk, we’ll learn how to look at typefaces with a discerning eye, different approaches to typographic planning, how typography impacts the act of reading, and how to choose and combine appropriate typefaces from an aesthetic and technical point of view. Through an understanding of our design tools and how they relate to the web as a medium, we can empower ourselves to use type in meaningful and powerful ways.
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So wonderful.
Located in Harads, Sweden, Treehotel is a combination of a standard hotel with five uniquely designed guesthouses and a sauna space propped up against a classic Scandinavian atmosphere. Each designed and decorated in a specific theme from MirrorCube to The Bird’s Nest.
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The Austrian photographer Josef Fischnaller dispatches paintings by Old Masters such as Raffael, Da Vinci, Tizian, Vermeer and Caravaggio into the 21st century.
Lithuanian photographer and artist Tadao Cern‘s series of hilarious portraits entitled Blow Job depicts individuals enduring gale-force winds directly to the face. Made me laugh.
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