What different colors mean in different cultures.

“Neco Toüch is a game “all the rage among German children” that awards points for befriending feral cats with careful touches on the nose (eliciting purrs is a 1000pt bonus).”

Feral cats, really? I’d like to see the real version of that. Famicase Gallery: 2010’s best imaginary 8-bit games.

The Archigram Archival Project: architectural stridentism utopia at its highest.

So I turn thirty-one today. Another year, another test.
(image found in I Am Not an Artist, via the seizure-inducing GIF Anime)

Apparently from a zoo in Dublin, this is how public signage should be. (via Drive-by Blogging)

To prove there’s a blog just about everything, here’s Good Show Sir, devoted to bad science fiction cover art. There’s plenty of that in Portugal.

Well-Placed Pixels, a blog showcasing well-designed user interfaces. Quite a bit heavy on the iPhone side, but still worth browsing.

Ah, web typography. When I did my first website back in 1997, things were pretty much limited to a choice between Arial and Times New Roman. Then Microsoft introduced Verdana and a couple of others, and people found out they could get away with really small font sizes. Georgia was lovely but not for everyone, and Trebuchet… well it just replaced Arial in my mind. The fact remains, for the last twelve years designers had less than a dozen sure choices for web type, fonts readily available in both Windows PCs and Macs. Windows Vista introduced a few pretty good fonts (such as the Candara that used to be this blog’s first choice), and that had designers writing ridiculously large CSS font stacks in order to maintain a small amount of control. Some did go all the way and wrote scripts that replaced HTML text with Flash movies which had some font embedded, but that’s a pretty crude solution to a problem that should be easier to solve.

It took ten years but finally most browsers support font embedding. Internet Explorer is a nuisance, as always, because despite being the first browser to support embedding (since I first started making websites, in fact!), it does so through some peculiar font format which is incompatible with everything else. Anyway, I finally jumped right into the @font-face bandwagon. You should be reading this text in CartoGothic (Font Squirrel also has a pretty friendly tool to help with the CSS and the conversion to IE format); and the headlines should be set in Jos Buivenga’s Delicious. If you are using one of the latest browsers, that is. Enjoy!

Update: screw that, using CartoGothic brings too much of a lag on page load. So it’s back to Trebuchet. But I’m keeping the titles set in Delicious.

Quentin Tarantino himself curated an exhibition of alternative posters for Inglourious Basterds.

When I saw this I imagined Wes Anderson directing a horror film in which three brothers go on a journey to India… but somehow end up in the jungle (not in the desert like in that other movie) being chased by killer elephants. Perhaps it’s the Futura. I’ll print a t-shirt. (via Pedro Quintas)