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is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.

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A List Apart: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid

Tue 10 Apr 200710:36 AM

Article by Wilson Miner.

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Recent Ad for Guardian Very Similar to Old Ad for Olivetti

Tue 10 Apr 200709:56 AM

Wieden & Kennedy’s recent poster bears a striking resemblence to work done for Olivetti’s Tetractys printing calculator in 1956. (Thanks to Manuel for the link.)

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NYT: Corbis and the Rise of Low-cost Online Photo Services

Tue 10 Apr 200708:48 AM
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Toronto’s Street Signage for the Homeless

Tue 10 Apr 200708:47 AM

One of the better design school projects I’ve seen.

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No One Belongs Here More Than You

Mon 9 Apr 200711:00 PM

Web site for the new Miranda July movie is as clever and cute as her previous work, for better or worse.

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Tim O’Reilly: Call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct

Mon 9 Apr 200708:53 AM

Overview in today’s New York Times. Jeff Jarvis responds.

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Design Observer: Our Little Secret

Fri 6 Apr 200702:38 PM

On the occassion of AIGA New York’s screening of “Helvetica: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit,” Michael Bierut waxes nostalgiac on the art of typesetting.

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Village Voice: Hot Hot Heat

Fri 6 Apr 200701:17 PM

“A graphical dissertation on the number one song in America.” Very clever and hilarious. Thanks to Mike Essl for the link.

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Humanized: Tabs Gone Wrong in Firefox 2.0

Fri 6 Apr 200709:52 AM

Aza Raskin argues that the latest version’s new tabs configuration “…takes a giant step backward by actively concealing information.”

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Wikipedia: Company Name Etymologies

Fri 6 Apr 200712:41 AM
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