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It’s looking good. David Croft commentates with a very natural rhythm and his rapport with Anthony Davidson made the coverage of the practice sessions this year. Ted Kravitz is a knowledgable guy who also has a very natural and calm way of adding to the commentary. Of course, Mr Brundle needs no introduction. The only [...]
A nice overview of the Simple (formerly BankSimple) brand. What I did not know is that the icon is a guilloche: […] a complex pattern created from simple, repeated, geometric steps defined by elementary equations. It’s this easily generated, difficult to reproduce intricacy that has led to a guilloche appearing in some form on most [...]
This is Pastor Maldonado, a Venezuelan, talking naturally: This is the same guy in the official press release announcing that he will be staying with Williams in 2012: “This has been a tough season for the whole team but it has given me personally the opportunity to learn and develop. I am convinced that the [...]
A colleague mentioned the Cloze test today, something I had not heard of before. In a nutshell it’s a method by which you can assess the suitability of copy for particular digital environments. Jakob Nielsen has a useful overview of the technique: Replace every Nth word in the text with blanks. A typical test uses [...]
An intriguing insight into the sketchbook of Susan Kare as she was developing the original Mac icons. All hail checkered sketchbooks. Fascinating and delightful. And I did not know that the ‘command’ symbol (⌘) was meant to be a castle as viewed from above.
This stop motion video is just awesome: A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View.
I missed this when it went live but the website for Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012 is rather nice. It uses Jubilat from Typekit and contains 100% responsiveness.
Joe Saward reports that Auto Motor und Sport are running a story about McLaren trying to arrange an engine deal with Honda. The deal would see McLaren use a Honda V6 turbo from 2014 onwards. First Williams Renault, now (apparently) McLaren Honda. All aboard the retro bus!