Recent Highlights 88

+ The Hokusai wave meme
+ The world in 2007 according to newspapers (and blogs)
+ Creative Review on Sydney's Glue Society
+ Aboriginal rock engravings of Sydney
+ 'The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes' (an oldie but a goodie)
+ MacHEADS: a documentary about Mac-lovers
+ Do I look good on this? Selca = self camera
+ New typeface (naked variety): Nudist
+ More new punctuation: the interrocolon

johnson banks on the Hokusai wave meme. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa is everywhere...

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Visualisations of news data: the world as it was reported in 2007 according to newspapers (and blogs). More here. Via Boing Boing.

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Creative Review on Sydney's idiosyncratic ad team The Glue Society.

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The Aboriginal rock engravings of Sydney.

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'The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes: (and other notes on the distinction between style and design)' – an oldie but a goodie by Adam Greenfield. Thanks Ben Greig.

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"Muslims go to Mecca. We go to Macca". MacHEADS: a documentary about Mac-lovers.

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Do I look good on this? Personal vanity in Korea and Japan photographed... again... and again. Selca = self camera.

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New typeface alert: Craig Oldham's Nudist, which has its naughty regions cleverly pixellated too. Via Kottke.

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More developments in twenty-first century punctuation: "When the direct object of an interrogative statement references an example, a URL or another statement in a follow-on block of text" an interrocolon may be required.