Animated Typefaces

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While many tend to question the real value of the ever-entertaining GIF image, designer Jono Brandel imagines a time when the format allows individual letters to tell a story. In his new project Anitype, Brandel has opened up the virtual floor for anyone interested in creating their own moving letter. Using the provided code, creative thinkers can animate each letter or check out other submissions, …

Architect Dream Homes

Robert Capa's surprising color photos, Google's 2013 Zeitgeist, Nico Muhly's review of Beyoncé and more

Though architects aren’t ones to lack creativity, they’re sometimes unable to express it at its full potential. It’s only in dreaming up their own homes that they can draw and build without construction and client restrictions. So why not ask them to build their dream homes? In his “Solo Houses” experiment, developer Christian Courdais gave 10 architects a blank slate to work from for fantastical …

Kano’s Kickstarter

Robert Capa's surprising color photos, Google's 2013 Zeitgeist, Nico Muhly's review of Beyoncé and more

This year seemingly everybody is Kickstarting something, but there’s one project that’s caught the eye of tech bigshots around the word, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler. Kano is a DIY kit for assembling your own small computer, and its creators were looking for $100,000 in crowdfunding but walked away with $1.35 million this past week. Kano’s appealing package promises to …