Type]Media 2011 

Amazing work from twelve graduates from Type]Media2011, with a nice website to go along. Ramiro Espinosa made a Flickr set with all the posters of the final exhibition. 

(via Type]Media 2010/11 - Lauri Toikka)

Taken with Instagram at Williamsburg Bridge

Kern Type, the kerning game →

Typographica favorite typefaces of 2011 →

Roughly 2 years later, Typographica updates with their favorite fonts of 2011, with an excellent selection as usual. I have to mention the fact that two portuguese designers are among the chosen ones. 

Please Pick Up After Your Pets by Phil Jones, graphic designer/art director working and living in Minneapolis.

(Source: magnolius)

Some great conference videos on responsive web design focusing on design and development for mobile devices. 

(via Past Events | Breaking Development 2012)

If You Like Watches

I think I have found the watch porn site of the century.
Look at these beautiful ticking time pieces. 

Now if I could pintrest the entire site onto one baord.

Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me — they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone — best outside of corporate environments, best where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.

— Steve Wozniak.  ”Woz on Creativity: Work Alone.”

(Source: chaddickerson)

Some Numbers

How long and how much does it take to start a company? It took asana over 2 years and 9 million in funding to get a public beta out.

Early 2009: Founders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein begin work on Asana

November 2009: Asana raises $9M led by Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz

October 2010: Asana begins private beta

February 2011: Asana launches public beta

November 2011: Asana open launch

(Source: asana.com)

Yosemite HD (by Project Yosemite)

The 5 Axes of Mobile Platform Fragmentation

1. User Interface 
2. Device 
3. Operating System 
4. Marketplace 
5. Service

(Source: ceklog.kindel.com)

magnolius:

Portraits made by chiseling the wall (in Moscow & London) - part of the “Scratching the Surface” series by Street artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils. VHILS just recently released a new book highlighting some of his work  - Check it out HERE

CEO's now talk about user experience as a primary philosophy for defining their products strategy →

Above all, designer founders should be experts at finding the right problems to solve. That means sometimes building usable products that are ugly, or prototyping with a spreadsheet, and not getting trapped into making something beautifully useless that will not scale. Designer founders need to be able to do a lot, and it’s not easy.

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Silicon Valley’s New Secret Weapon: Designers Who Found Startups

Show me the sales. How does social media impact the bottom line? →