Needs a read of the instructions first: Link

Admirror: “mysterious coincidences in commercial prints”

Bootleg Objects: Reappropriated furniture and audioequipment

“an exhibition of Europe’s worst interiors of 1974”: Link

Artist Jeremy Wood draws with GPS (Global Positioning System) devices: Link

• AIGA - The Language of Auto Emblems
• Paul Giambarba, Corporate Image and Product Identity: Minimalist 1970s Polaroid packaging; Tonka toys logo
• 04.jp.org: Free bitmap fonts
• 300 Images From 1800 Sites: Study of websites’ common icon vocabulary: arrows, mail, print, shopping carts

What looks like a fairly old interview by Daniel Will-Harris about Microsoft’s family of fonts for screen with their designer, Matthew Carter, and Simon Earnshaw, Microsoft typographer, athough it’s a little unclear who says what.

Interesting that Verdana is essentially a looser-spaced Tahoma – which was originally designed as a Windows 95 system font, and that this was the first time they’d started with bitmaps for conmmonly used screen sizes and worked out outlines for print and larger sizes afterwards.

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Public lettering: a typographic walk in central London, concentrating on large site-specific lettering. Features dynamic views: expandable information and image panels.

Susan Kare: User Interface Graphics – designer of system icons for both the original Macintosh –now over 20 years old, and Windows 3.0.

In contrast, Microsoft’s current design guidelines for Windows XP and Pocket PC icons. And Apple’s OSX icon guidelines.