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Infocom-related mishaps
dept. of side projects
Corduroy is a Python library for using CouchDB with Tornado.
book cover doodle
i have no idea why i made this…
scale error
coordinate transforms will always be a trial and error affair i'm afraid
the rules of the game
13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project. all told i ended up cataloging a dozen books from the early-to-mid 80s, looking for patterns in their construction and in the paths made by different readers through them.
these short, simple books had a surprisingly complicated structure with their interlocking pages & choices. as a kid the idea of writing one and keeping all those pages straight boggled my mind. what was lost on me at the time was that even a list of hundreds of page numbers can be comprehensible if it’s redrawn as a diagram. these days i feel like i approach everything that way.
so here is my look back at an obsession from my past, using graphical obsessions of the present to guide the way.
Bookmarks
when i am rich, i will own their entire catalog. meantime i will read their blog
The newer ones (naturally) look like awful rave fliers or real estate agent literature. the old stuff though is gorgeous
Terrific advertising from the good old days of straight up calling people crazy....
crazy emergent line drawings through magnetism.
nifty terminal.app extension to let you override the colors used for e.g., emacs's syntax coloring
not so into lou d. but his student pwns....
the Typographica folks call out all the fonts in the sequence
so much gorgeous cigarette packaging from olden times
i try to find this information once or twice a year, then promptly lose the url...
patterns that take the room perspective into account and look distorted unless you're standing in the right place
german modernist diagram of the body's inner workings. complete with pepsin.
an attention to detail that would leave me floored if i saw it in any american city
great reflections on the new yorker's timelessness (design-wise anyway)
Beautiful maps from the 40s showing the changing course of the mississippi over time
Abandonware library. Means i'll have to load classic back on my computer again though....
Container ships being salvaged on bangladeshi plateaux. Totally awe inspiring photos
photos of '40s america. great old signage in lots of these
all points can be made better with lego people as the messengers
Found
amazing three color overprint designs. `el ajedrez vivo de marte' is beyond description.