Toons At War. A fascinating collection of Disney cartoons in support of World War 2.
Nuclear explosions since 1945. (Work-related, I swear).
The Grid System. All about designing with grids.
CopyPaste Character – a handy reference for web design.
14 to 42: New York City Signs. I’m a sucker for old signage. This is a magnificent historical timesuck. (via)
Better CSS Font Stacks – An excellent overview of font groupings for CSS.
Here’s a website dedicated solely to The Ampersand . It’s made the rounds over the last few days, but I like the idea and the execution, so I’m adding it here. (via)
This has been around since 2004, but I’ll post it here. The Branding of Polaroid is a neat, if choppily written website by the man who was charged with rebranding a stale product line in the face of the Kodak juggernaut. It’s fascinating on many levels, and clear parallels can be drawn to modern-day Apple/Microsoft packaging.
Nixie tube clocks. Me want, bad.
Create better PDFs by understanding the formats, a primer on the various types of PDF format used for printing. Yeesh, what a mess.