I very much like the look of Hand & Eye's website. I'm also loving the organic forms of their lightning products and particularly the aesthetics of the terracotta A-Beam. There are also some great accompnaying images of its use as a minimal yet statement-piece quality lighting solution; one among them is the Fjord Office in clerkenwell designed by Studio Jenny Jones.
Blokdots →
If you always wanted to use an Arduino (like how I have always), but didn't know how to get started, this free prototyping tool might be worth looking into (via). Great technical design aesthetics going on with the website, I might add.
[Typographically Speaking] Larish Neue @ The Daily Dot
Another blog series I'm getting started within this post, this one is called Typographically Speaking. The idea is simply to catalogue some real examples of a type in use on a website. Normally when you are starting out with a new project, type choices can be very daunting and it's very difficult to fully visualise how your choices will actually look like in the wild, so collecting examples where some selected typography seems to work well can hopefully be a good starting point.
There is, of course, Fonts in Use and Type Sample but on a personal level, I want to have it closer to base :)
On this first edition, I like the use of Larish Neue rendered on the headlines @ The Daily Dot
The emerging 737 Max scandal, explained →
A good analysis and explanation of what went on behind the scenes that resulted in the recent Boeing 737 Max debacles.
Quote Worthy:
The nature of the airline industry is such that there’s no real money to be made selling airplanes that have a poor safety track record. One could even imagine sketching out a utopian libertarian argument to the effect that there’s no real need for a government role in certifying new airplanes at all, precisely because there’s no reason to think it’s profitable to make unsafe ones.
FR Kraken Slab →
Frank Fonts' FR Kraken Slab is a beautiful expression that captures the spirit of the sea and folklore with its crafty tentacles and folded edges.
Transformational Uselessness →
Some aesthetically pleasing fictitious objects imagined out of the thin air by Tavo. (via)
The Inter typeface family →
Inter is a beautiful dynamic type designed for screen by this talented gentleman. It's kinda like San Francisco without all the hype.
Take a Gander →
The work of New York based agency Gander looks very 'current', you know: they got the brutalist typography, flash photography, gipsy/magic design element, scrolling text, photography on patterns and animated gifs; they have it all and its great to see how they have applied it to most of their projects.
inspiring.online →
A great little collection of, well, inspiring stuff found online by this gentleman who himself has done many inspiring things online including The Useless Web that has served me as a brilliant dose of internet humour.
Paul Robert Lloyd's Bookmarks →
I like how Paul manages external links on his website. Essentially something I'm striving to achieve here on my website, but of course, his is a more elegant solution. A great selection of links, pointing to the source, an excerpt from the link and a short opinion on why it was bookmarked or what he found interesting in it.
J+A Café →
I like the look and feel of J+A that comes through from the logo and the website. Something quite warm and comforting. I haven't even been to the cafe yet, but it definitely makes me want to go. Even their tweets look delicious. A crystal case of a design doing the effective duty.
Funkis Font →
Funkis is a customisable geometric san serif typeface originally designed in 2015 by Göran Söderström and Fredrik Gruber and published by Letters from Sweden. It has a great little website accompanying the typeface and some really slick simple in-use design examples.