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The water has been shut off for a couple blocks on DeKalb Ave. Bittersweet’s making due with cold-brewed iced coffee today, brewed for over 18 hours. It’s a smooth, mellow alternative to their usually amazingly rich coffee. Nicholas Felton just posted some new work. Check it out. Pick up Michael Bierut’s Seventy-nine Short Essays on [...]

From email this morning: Check out this ride through the streets of Paris one early morning. On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of [...]

Catching up on blogs and came across new work from Pentagram. Now that NY’s two public TV stations are under the same banner, they’ve rebranded the identity as WNET.org. I’m especially a fan of the use of Flash in the interactive annual report. Neat idea. What I thought was going to be hard to navigate [...]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank-sparrow/sets/72157617108841403/ An awesome concept for a simple project.

Check out the A LIST APART Survey for 2008. I’m finding it interesting how relatable to the majority my experience has been for most of the questions in the survey, except for maybe FIG. XIV: Hours worked per week. Working on that one. http://aneventapart.com/alasurvey2008/ via sansumbrella

From Milton Glaser.

Go ahead and check out crisisofcredit.com. Jonathan Jarvis put this together as part of his thesis at Art Center. In league with the This American Life shows about the credit crisis (Giant Pool of Money and Another Frightening Show About the Economy) this is a visual, and quite tastefully done, explanation of the ‘why’ of [...]

First, I like this simple, clean Flash portfolio site by Nick Jones. Second, check out the trailer for the upcoming documentary Objectified, directed by Gary Hustwit, the guy who did Helvetica.