Competition

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Erik Spiekermann

Legendary type designer Erik Spiekermann talks type with frog, expounding
on the beauty - and the difficulty - of designing numbers.

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The Obama SMS: (Un-)Gratifying Instantification

So the SMS went out to hundreds of thousands of Obama supporters. Not everyone got it at the same time (according to Textually.org, it took about 15 minutes for the bulk of the messages to get through the carriers' systems) or, in some cases, at all, but overall, the pre-announcement buzz (including some fake VP announcements -- "Michael Phelps!") was palpable and the word was spread.

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On Being a bit Dramatic

Douglas Haddow of Adbusters posted an article July 29, 2008 which warranted 1425 comment. I do not know a lot about the company Adbusters but would tend to think, just going by the name, that the people in the organization have a high sense of purpose, and maybe because of that, tend to be on the outer edges of thinking, thus, polarizing themselves and leaving little room in the middle. In blunt terms, they speak in blunt terms and maybe get others riled up about it.

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The Death of Large Trends in the Fashion Industry and Beyond

Erin Magner of the JC Report wrote a three part story on the death of trends in the fashion world, and I highly recommend you read all three articles

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Disassembly and Reveal

Britney Badger's photos of disassembled household appliances are immediately appealing just because, well, COOL! Deconstructed mechanical guts!  But there are several layers of interest at play in these photos, each layer arousing a different visceral reaction, and which have in total probably accounted for this student thesis project to be so widely linked recently.

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New Palm Treo Pro: Not digging it

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