January 2009
13 posts
"The Rake's Song" →
For free download: the first single from The Decemberists’ forthcoming new album The Hazards of Love.
Also, Colin Meloy is on Twitter.
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“After I launched the site, in March, I heard immediately from both the major...”
– Muxtape developer Justin Oullette, interviewed by Sasha Frere-Jones
TTC Metropass redesign — Valentine Makhouleen →
Making the Toronto Transit Commission less ugly will take a lot more than this, but it’s a lovely start. Too bad it’s not real.
Gmail Offline →
Zounds!
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Good customer service from AutoShare
I signed up for Toronto car sharing service AutoShare and then, when I went to make my first reservation, discovered that all 4 cars near my house were scheduled to be out of service at the same time that I wanted to book a car. I sent them a message pointing out the inconvenience of this, and they called me back by phone a couple hours later to sort it out. End result: I got one of the cars, and...
All of Inflation’s Little Parts - Interactive... →
This is old, from May 2008, but it’s an unusual and excellent data visualization.
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A Shinier White House →
In August, I wrote about how Barack Obama’s campaign evinced a quality of graphic design that felt more Hollywood than reality. Now that quality has been extended to the new White House website that everyone’s talking about. The typographic treatment, the regal use of blue and the overall spareness make this by far the slickest-looking government website ever. Is this the entrée to a...
Introducing Changeling Neo →
It’s probably all the old sci-fi movies I’ve been watching lately, but I’m digging Mark Simonson’s Changeling Neo, an update on a typeface he released in 2003. I used Simonson’s Proxima Nova for some Dabble DB work, but his less conventional typefaces are also invariably works of high quality. Mostra has become a favourite for book cover and movie poster designers.
Runnin' With The Songsmith →
Somehow, someone published David Lee Roth’s vocal track from “Running With the Devil” and, sadly for all of our ears, someone else fed it into Microsoft’s new muzak-machine, Songsmith.
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Listen to Andrew Bird's new album, Noble Beast →