Crying Robot

Remembering Dick Clark, Vernacular Typography, Pulitzer Prize Photos and more in our weekly web roundup

A promotional piece for the upcoming film Prometheus offers a peek at the futuristic vision of director Ridley Scott. The movie trailer is presented as a commercial for a fictional corporation, and features heartthrob Michael Fassbender as an android performing human tasks, proving the robot’s ability to mimic our actions and emotions—if not only at the surface level.

Vernacular Typography

Remembering Dick Clark, Vernacular Typography, Pulitzer Prize Photos and more in our weekly web roundup

With cursive on its way out, in the digitally-obsessed future lettering may end up a single standard format. In an effort to protect and celebrate the beauty of regional signage, Molly Woodward created Vernacular Typography—a crowd-sourced, community-based program aimed at preserving vanishing typefaces around the world.

Pulitzer Prize Photography

Remembering Dick Clark, Vernacular Typography, Pulitzer Prize Photos and more in our weekly web roundup

This year’s arts and journalism awards saw a first-time win for a new media outlet and the omission of a Fiction winner for the first time in 35 years, as well as two war-related images in the Breaking News and Feature Photography categories. For the former, the committee recognized Massoud Hossaini for his “heartbreaking” depiction of a young girl screaming in the wake of a …