N O U N : A design blog by Oliver Oike

I’m a cycling fan. This show looks like a wonderful display of work by photographer Brent Humphreys, with show art direction & design by http://www.weaponofchoice.ca/. Wish I could find myself in Austin.
Lance Armstrong and his team seem to have really embraced art & design as they mature the Livestrong brand.
I’ll get behind any effort that [...]

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Found this post full of  Japanese Type examples. Love it.

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Can’t really believe I’m posting a cool technology idea from Microsoft, but here it is. They acquired Seadragon and brought in house their image visualization application, which morphed into Photosynth.
Watch the demo from March of this year at TED.

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The good folks at Flickr recently teamed up with Yahoo! and are now able to offer an excellent price on a Pro account – $24.95USD. Just TRY to upload 2GB of images in one month! And no storage limits! And tags!These guys are to be admired. They’ve really done a great job. Read Caterina’s blog [...]

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