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The Anatomy of Typography

For Print Only shows off, what they are calling, the Ligature, Loop & Stem poster.  It breaks down typography to their very essential parts and provides a beautiful teaching tool for how typography can impact our lives and how designers can make it better. [via Dooby Brain]

24 Hours of #Reality

Al Gore, whose 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," was the first PowerPoint presentation to ever win an Academy Award, is conducting a 24-hour presentation this Thursday to do what the two-hour film could not: convince skeptics that the link between climate change and extreme weather, like Hurricane Irene, is real.  Visit www.ClimateRealityProject.org  to get the full skinny.

I hope you'll join us here on POST DIGITAL, where we will carry the broadcast. Together, we're going to focus the world's attention on the scope, scale and impact of the climate crisis.  24 Hours of Reality begins at 7 p.m. Central Time on Wednesday, September 14. Over the course of the day, there will be 24 presentations across 24 time zones in 13 languages. We need your help!  

The Climate Reality Project's online toolkit is now complete with full resources for your involvement to spread the word about climate crisis online. Below is a list of how you can use the online toolkit to help The Climate Reality Project leading up to and during 24-Hours of Reality.

BEFORE THE EVENT:

• Donate your Facebook and Twitter feeds for 72 hours.
• Embed the 24 Hours of Reality live broadcast on your blog.
• Donate your website's homepage.
• Watch the ads and share them with your friends.
• Share the Denial Hits the Fan microsite.
• Tag yourself Five Times for Reality on your personal Facebook page.
• 'Like' the Climate Reality page on Facebook.
• RSVP for the 24 Hours of Reality live stream event on Facebook. 
• Follow @ClimateReality on Twitter.
• ReTweet our content and/or message us directly @ClimateReality.
• Use #Reality & #[your country] when calling out evidence of climate change.
• Host a watch party in your community for your local 24 Hours of Reality live broadcast.

 

DURING THE EVENT:

• Embed the 24 Hours of Reality live broadcast on your blog.
• Link to the live stream.
• ReTweet our content and/or message us directly @ClimateReality.
• Share/tag thoughts about how climate change is affecting your area and ask others to do the same.
• Instruct your audience to use #Reality & [your country] when calling out evidence of climate change.

 

Cartoon Via The New Yorker

on: art that can change the world

on: the undercity

Urban explorer Steve Duncan examines hidden infrastructure — the tunnels, subways, and sewers — of cities all over the world. Watch him reveal New York City's secret underground world. Andrew Wonder's amazing video follows Duncan through some of his most recent adventures in New York City.

on: nyc lights

On Melancholy Hill - NYC Lights from Chateau Bezerra on Vimeo.

Music Video shot just using lights in New York City.

Director: Chateau
Cinematography: Alpha Smoot
Song: Melancholy Hill by Gorillaz

Shot on Canon 5D II and Canon 40D. Finished in After Effects.

on: the nissan leaf polar bear

I simply love this ad!

[ via Rob Schwartz ]

on: designing data

on: september 11, 2010

nine years later and the images of that day still evoke tears, the stories make you pause and the names of the victims read out loud on this day remind you of how fragile life is. Bing has always commemorated this day with stirring images on their home page. (see last year)  Today is no different.

 

Here are a few other digital images and destinations to remember today.

 

Visit the Memorial site at http://www.national911memorial.org
 

 

on: bianca chang

 

 

  
 
   

on: bernat fortet

This past week when I was combing the art world for inspiration when I ran across someone special. Bernat Fortet is a graphic designer from Barcelona, Spain. It’s hard to give a specific name to his style as he masters all the classic graphic design skills such as photography, typography, illustration as well as motion graphics. 

 

Check him out for some inspiration at http://blog.bernatfortet.com/