Hand-Stitched Typography

Hand-stitched typography, a skate park gallery, Nina Simone and more in our weekly look at the Web

In a cheeky comment on digital ease, designer Briar Mark decided to hand-stitch a typographical illustration using three colors and tens of thousands of individual stitches. The completed piece appropriately reads, “I could have done this on my Mac.”

Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane Expedition

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Famed aviatress Amelia Earhart disappeared 75 years ago on July 2, and her mysterious legacy continues to captivate generations of Americans. A recent NPR interview with researcher Ric Gillespie reveals new information regarding her crash, including the fact they may have even found her physical remains on an island in the South Pacific.

#Euro2012

Hand-stitched typography, a skate park gallery, Nina Simone and more in our weekly look at the Web

Showing that football fans support social media nearly as much as their team, Twitter data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte tracked tweets by following the #Euro2012 hashtag during the 2012 European Cup. The graphical spikes indicate high and low points in selective matches, giving insight to decisive moments when physical words were simply not enough to voice the levels of excitement.