Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The latest deep sea discoveries, Ji Lee's quirky apartment, fonts for Haiti and unhappy hipsters

1. Eight Bizarre Newly-Discovered Deep Sea Creatures From the white furry arms of the Yeti crab to the delicate pink body of the transparent sea cucumber, these beautiful otherworldly photos hint at the wonders of the world beneath.via @typefiend 2. Font Aid IV The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) called the creative community to task with Font Aid IV, asking designers to contribute to an …

Upside-Downey Face Photographs

Brandon Voges snaps eerie portraits of people suspended upside-down

Photographer Brandon Voges came up with a simple and surprisingly novel idea: photograph portraits of people hanging upside down by their ankles. Then invite your closest friends to do the same. The resulting eerie series “Upside Downey Face” is a collection of unsettling, strange images of people flipped the wrong way up. (Click images for detail.) In addition to traditional portraits, the portfolio includes snapshots …

Interview with Linchpin Author Seth Godin

Author Seth Godin talks about the necessity of artistic thinking in the modern workplace

In his latest book, “Linchpin,” Internet maverick Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Cool Hunting: How does this unconventional approach to PR illustrate what you’re talking about in Linchpin? Seth Godin: My thesis—just to start from the beginning—is that we got tricked for 50 or 100 years into believing that the way to succeed was to keep calm and carry on, to fit in, to do …