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Articles on the social and cultural dimensions of big data and algorithms in the Web 2.0 era
Via Deborah Lupton
psycho #1 christian bök fan right here
no way get in line
Infographic: The Intricate Anatomy Of UX Design
THIS MEGA GRAPHIC ATTEMPTS TO TACKLE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UX AND ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF DESIGN.
Via FastCoDesign
Know your tome – anatomy of the book. Pair with how a book is made, from antiquity to the Middle Ages to today.
Book Sculptures
Landscapes carved and painted into old books by Canadian artist Guy Laramee.
From the history of how coffee changed the world, early foreign and American coffee-making devices, 1922:
1—English adaptation of French boiler. 2—English coffee biggin. 3—Improved Rumford percolator. 4—Jones’s exterior-tube percolator. 5—Parker’s steam-fountain coffee maker. 6—Platow’s filterer. 7—Brain’s Vacuum, or pneumatic filter. 8—Beart’s percolator. 9—American coffee biggin. 10—cloth-bag drip pot. 11—Vienna coffee pot. 12—Le Brun’s cafetière. 13—Reversible Potsdam cafetière. 14, 15—Gen. Hutchinson’s percolator and urn. 16—Etruscan biggin.
The history of typography, in a stop-motion animation made of 291 cut-paper letters and 2,454 photographs. Pair with a peek inside the sketchbooks of the world’s best type designers and 10 essential books on typography.
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Futuristic User Interface 02:
Retro-Futuristic Analog Devices
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“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; and quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are...”
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Verandah with writing table and trees
i’m totally sending you ‘spreadsheet with anguish’
