Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Visionaire's latest, iPhone panoramas, the season's best foldable shades and more in this week's look at the web

1. Hedi Slimane: Anthology of a Decade A collection of photographs shot by designer Hedi Slimane, this new book (available 31 July 2011) includes images created “before, during and after his tenures at Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior.” 2. Visionaire Issue 60: Religion One of the first and most over-the-top publications to radically redefine the industry, Visionaire‘s upcoming leather-bound edition takes up the heady …

Prototyp-0

Visionaire's latest, iPhone panoramas, the season's best foldable shades and more in this week's look at the web

Typographic designer Oded Ezer’s twitter recently pointed us to Yannick Mathey’s diploma project called Prototype-0, a computer application that takes font design a step further than a pencil could—as Ezer says, a “font generator for lazy designers.”

Mike Matas

How one software maverick is pioneering the future of digital publishing

Digital design prodigy Mike Matas combines the ease of navigating the physical world to create lifelike interfaces that feel so unobtrusive you hardly notice you’re using complex technology. Motivated by the desire to do things on a computer more like in reality, Matas set out to create virtual interfaces driven by touch. “If you want to do something [on a computer] you should just be …