Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Calling all UK based typophiles, The Type Museum needs you! As Tim Martin explains:
“The Type Museum has successfully collected a large proportion of all the definitive historical materials relating to the art, design & manufacturing production in Britain of the typefaces in which the world languages are communicated and recorded. This collection has been closed for two years and needs re-opening to public access, educational and scholarly use not broken up or put into storage as is currently being proposed. The Type Museum’s collections need exhibiting, curatorial & conservation development and educational workshops - not storage. This legacy is vital for the quality of education of future generations of communicators in which Britain has frequently led the world. We appeal for resources to restore and safeguard educational access to these collections.”
You can sign the petition here.
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
- Aurora - Web interface concept from Adaptive Path that explores “new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios”. Designed as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series, Aurora is designed around four themes: Context awareness, natural interaction, continuity and multi-user applications. HD versions of the series of videos can be found here.
- Britain from above - New series from the BBC exploring the topography of Britain using satellite technology and aerial photography. Starts Sunday 10th August. Preview.
- Incredible satellite images of earth via Environmental Graffiti
Tags: BBC, UI, UX
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
- Is bamboo the new black? [Re]Drive a bamboo cased hard drive and the new bamboo sleeved Dell Studio Hybrid.
- Del.icio.us or delicious.com as it’s now known finally gets round to relaunching with a much improved interface, speed improvements (looks like the tags are pulled in on request rather than being rendered on page load), improved search and some neat UI touches. There’s an overview of all the new features here.
- Open Source Food - Some great recipes and photography. Not good if you’re feeling hungry but not near a kitchen!
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The BBC have just launched a public beta of their music site, BBC Music. Using data from MusicBrainz! and Wikipedia, BBC Music Beta enables users to explore artists played on BBC Radio. Artist profiles currently show a biography, discographies, BBC appearances and related artists information with the data available in a variety of ‘RESTful’ formats including XML, YAML, JSON, RDF, Atom and RSS.
The IA is good and the overall design works well within the new BBC web guidelines. It definitely looks like it should easily scale as more data gets added and it looks like there’s plenty of scope for integration with other BBC data sources such as programmes, events, news, album reviews and even iPlayer. One to keep an eye on!
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