My Little Tidbits

Jul 19

“the written word can dramatize mans best thoughts and highest hopes” — Zapf on calligraphy

Apr 16

“Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt (via miekd) (via paulozoom)

Apr 07

Let’s Start a Design Tribe

lloydwinter:

via NOTCOT

Apr 04

someotherpeople: Poster: The Soviet Union and the Red Moon.

someotherpeople:

Poster: The Soviet Union and the Red Moon.

Mar 30

ffffovnd: TheDieline.com: Package Design: Studio Spotlight: Mint

ffffovnd:

TheDieline.com: Package Design: Studio Spotlight: Mint

Mar 25

“Waiting for inspiration is another way of saying that you’re stalling. You don’t wait for inspiration, you command it to appear.” — Seth Godin (via subdued7)

Mar 22

bitsnbobs: Bristol in a Harry Beck style An attempt to create a compact and simplified map of Bristol City Centre. Not at all to scale, though to allow all the main atteries running in and out of the city to be visble in a small space. Obviously heavily based on the style of the London Underground map by ‘Soul Brother #1’ Harry Beck.

bitsnbobs:

Bristol in a Harry Beck style

An attempt to create a compact and simplified map of Bristol City Centre. Not at all to scale, though to allow all the main atteries running in and out of the city to be visble in a small space.

Obviously heavily based on the style of the London Underground map by ‘Soul Brother #1’ Harry Beck.

Mar 16

“Shoot for the moon… If you miss, you’ll be among the stars.” — via (Sam Purtill)

Feb 25

Women, the best firewall in the world -

  1. One human cell contains 75MB genetic information.
  2. One sperm contains a half of that; that is 37.5MB.
  3. One ml of semen contains 100 million sperms.
  4. In average, ejaculation lasts for 5 sec and contains 2.25 ml semen.
  5. This means that the throughput of a man’s member is equal to (37.5MB x…

Feb 04

“Emaciated data-thin designs, in contrast, provoke suspicions—and rightfully so—about the quality of measurement and analysis.” — Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information (via feltron)