I’m posting a lot of videos recently. Maybe I should be setting up a Tumblr blog for this sort of thing. Maybe not.
Anyway, this is a gem: combining three of my interests: typography, London and history, it’s a short film by Michael Bokkowski at Linefeed:
A Typographic Survey of the City of London from Michael Bojkowski [...]
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Thinking about banking, finance, the web and innovation in general at the moment and came across this rather fine explanatioin of the credit crisis from Jonathan Jarvis, an artist. If you’ve got ten minutes and want for once and for all to understand how we got into this mess, then have a watch…
The Crisis of [...]
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A few months behind on this one, but who cares?
Lovely short film from Vancouver Film School here about why blogging in Iran is a “revolution within the revolution”…
Via Information Aesthetics.
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When I was a student in 1994 I was on the front cover of The Indpendent the morning after a riot outside the Houses of Parliament.
The image was of a grimacing, dreadlocked fellow’s grimacing face lunging over the line of police shields.
(No, that wasn’t me…)
The picture spoke a thousand words. It told the whole story. [...]
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Love history. Love the web. Love good design.
This history of the internet from Melih Bilgil is just a pleasure to watch, and you may learn a thing or two.
History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.
Via the excellent News from the Herd blog…
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