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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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Flickr Group Protests Microsoft’s Proposed Acquisition of Parent Company Yahoo

Fri 8 Feb 200809:16 AM
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NYT: Senate’s Long Losing Streak on Presidency Could Be Near an End

Thu 7 Feb 200802:59 PM

“After more than 50 failures and almost 50 years, the United States Senate is finally poised to again produce a president.”

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The Evolution of Various Tech Companies’ Logos

Thu 7 Feb 200802:29 PM
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Gum Blonde Chewing Gum Portraits

Thu 7 Feb 200801:30 PM

“Jason [Kronenwald] smoothes chewed gum over plywood, creating realistic skin tones and hair color, composing his palatte from the multitude of different flavors and colors chewed together.”

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Windows Vista Help: How to Open the Windows Vista Box

Thu 7 Feb 200801:26 PM

Beautiful and side-splitting find from Bryan Haggerty.

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Non-Errors

Tue 5 Feb 200810:14 PM

Perfectly good English grammar commonly mistaken for mistakes.

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Pitchfork: The 20 Worst Album Covers of 2007

Tue 5 Feb 200806:23 PM

Woops, missed this before. But it’s entertaining.

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Excellent Reviews of Select Macintosh Software

Mon 4 Feb 200806:09 PM
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The New Yorker: Winners of the Eustace Tilley Redesign Contest

Mon 4 Feb 200801:11 PM

“We held a contest asking readers to redefine Eustace Tilley, the magazine’s presiding dandy. We found ourselves with nearly three hundred ideas, from the erotic to the pontifical. Here is a portfolio of the winners…”

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Zilpy

Mon 4 Feb 200812:08 PM

Find out how much it costs to rent in your neighborhood.

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