The New York City Subway Map as You’ve Never Seen It Before - The New York Times
The design history of the New York subway map.
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Uber, Lyft, Taxis, Design and the Age of Ambivalence + Subtraction.com
Design has disrupted taxis in a massive, almost unprecedented way. But good design doesn’t merely aim to disrupt—it should set out to actually build viable solutions. Designers shouldn’t look at a problem and say, “What we’re going to do is just fuck it up and see what happens.” That’s a dereliction of duty.
Horrific Soccer Injuries
The horror …the horror.
Superfan! — Sacha Judd
The transcript of a talk that is fantastic in every sense.
Fans are organised, motivated, creative, technical, and frankly flat-out awe-inspiring.
90 Minutes | Type Supply
Tal Leming’s thoroughly delightful (and obsessive) account of designing the 90 Minutes typeface for U.S. Soccer.
FIFA has strict regulations that govern the size and stroke weight of numbers and letters used on official match uniforms. This made me unbelievably paranoid. I had a nightmare that one of the national teams would be set for kickoff of an important match and the referee would suddenly blow the whistle and say, “Hey, hey, hey! The bottom stroke of that 2 is 1 mm too light. The United States must forfeit this match!”
inter // states on Vimeo
A time-lapse video of Tokyo transportation.
Sawse - Stir it Up! » Blog Archive » 25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time
Animals and sports in serendipitous moments of FAIL.
Could Zeppelins soon grace our skies again? | Technology | The Guardian
Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes! "A new generation of environmentally friendly 'hybrid airships' could be just about to take off." Anything that makes everyday life more like Steampunk must be good.
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Boxing clever in Germany
I wonder if I can find a game of Chess Boxing before I leave Berlin.
Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark)
The paper of Joe's talk at ATypI Brighton. It's fascinating, well-researched stuff.
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Watch the adventures of Derek and Kathryn Featherstone in the run up to IronMan Lake Placid 2007. Check out the route maps: very slick.