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Teh_aimee (aimee whitcroft) Teh_aimee (aimee whitcroft) Teh_aimee (aimee whitcroft) Sneakerology Studio. Elliott Curtis is a cultural entrepreneur with a passion for discovering the interlacing nuances of sport, fashion, music, and art. Born and raised just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, Curtis traveled to Pittsburgh for college, where he graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Decision Science and was a four year player on the school's basketball team. While attending Carnegie Mellon, Curtis co-founded Sneakerology, the worlds first college-accredited course dedicated purely to sneaker culture. The class explored the cultural and chronological history of kicks, as well as emphasized the connection between personal identity and footwear choices. As a way to engage the surrounding Pittsburgh community with the class, Curtis and company put on Kicksburgh, a first of its kind footwear festival which brought together local street fashion retailers, sneaker collectors, DJs, artists, and breakdancers.

40 best Tumblr blogs for designers. Whether you're a creative director on the hunt for new talent, or a dev looking for some web design inspiration, Tumblr is full of inspirational work. The micro blogging service and social network makes it mega-easy for anyone wanting to know how to start a blog. Tumblr blogs can be set up in a matter of minutes and having a Tumblr account also enables you to 'follow' other people via their Tumblr blogs. It's this ease of use, and social appeal, that's seen Tumblr serve more than 45 million sites.

This is a great number for a company publishing blogs, but for users it becomes difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. With that in mind, we've done all the hard work for you, and brought you the best Tumblr blogs for designers, covering graphic design, photography, illustration, typography and more. Inspiration 01. It's difficult to categorise Richard Turley's blog – so we're not even going try: we'll put it first in this list, in its own category. Design curation 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. The 8 Worst Fonts In The World. We’d need another book, of course, to do this justice. And where would one start? Fonts are like cars on the street--we notice only the most beautiful or ugly, the funniest or the flashiest.

The vast majority roll on regardless. There may be many reasons why we dislike or distrust certain fonts, and overuse and misuse are only starting points. Fonts may trigger memory as pungently as perfume: Gill Sans can summon up exam papers. Most of the time we only notice typeface mistakes, or things before or behind their times. The Top Tens were: Used Regularly: Frutiger (23 respondents) Helvetica/Helvetica Neue (21) Futura (15) Gill Sans (13) Univers (11) Garamond (10) Bembo Franklin Gothic (8) 9.

Highly Visible: Helvetica/Helvetica Neue (29) Meta (13) Gill Sans (9) Rotis (8) Arial (7) ITC Officina Sans (4) Futura (3) Bold Italic Techno; FF Info; Mrs Eaves; Swiss; TheSans; Times New Roman (2) Least Favorite: The Least Favorite survey contained brief explanations. . #8: Ecofont One ought to approve. 10TONS : Galleri / Gallery. Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) has a haunted dollhouse. How 3D Printing Will Change Our World (Part II) Today, 3D Printing technology lives in the realm of small plastic tchotchkes. But economists, theorists, and consumers alike predict that 3D printers will democratize the act of creation and, in so doing, revolutionize our world.

Which poses an interesting quandary: what will happen when we can print houses? Last week, I discussed the incredible capabilities of 3D Printing in the not-so distant future: to quickly create homes for victims of disaster/poverty; to allow the architect the freedom to create curvy, organic structures once only dreamed of. But, if we look a little further afield, the possibilities are even more staggering. In the next few paragraphs, I’ll introduce you to Neri Oxman, an architect and MIT professor using 3D Printing technology to create almost-living structures that may just be the future of sustainable design.

The Anti-Modernist Neri Oxman has an arch-enemy, or, in her words, an “antithesis.” Why? Take, for example, a palm tree. Living-Synthetic Design As Ms. 21 Google Plus circles you can actually use. SketchChair by Diatom Studio. Ideeeas | Keep and share insights with simplicity. Free fonts for both commercial and noncommercial use. Burblings, you demand clear patterns for your eyes. FontPark is a Searchable, Sortable Database of Over 70,000 Free Fonts. Inspiration Gallery #059 – Typography « From up North. NOTCOT.ORG.

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