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First off, a giganormous Thank You to the love of my life for taking the time to scan these pages for me! And so this post wraps up the page scans of business cards. In the future, if I come across any I find interesting—the good, the bad, and the ugly—I'll post them individually. I hope you enjoyed looking through these as much I have.

Section 2 of The Highline Opens

via designboom
“Featuring a number of new design features, section 2 of the one mile long urban park is open to the public. The one mile long urban park is recycled from the former elevated freight railroad spur and runs from Gansevvort Street in the Meatpacking District to west 34th street, between 10th and 11th avenues.”
See more images here.

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Pantone desktop wallpapers

via how about orange
Download PANTONE iPhone, iPad, and desktop wallpapers in your choice of six hues, here.

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Image of the Day: Mathematics League Patch

Found while taking a break along Park Avenue, this patch also has a very tiny ampersand!

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Sleep May Restore Color Perception

via colourlovers
“Color perception drifts away from neutrality during wakefulness and is restored during sleep, suggests a research abstract presented in at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC. Results indicate that prior wakefulness caused the color gray to be classified as having a slightly but significantly greenish tint. Overnight sleep restored perception to achromatic equilibrium so that gray was perceived as gray...”
Read the rest here.

Cocktail Colors Seen Through the Microscope

Gin & Tonic

via colourlovers
“BevShot images are made by first crystallizing the drink of choice on a lab slide. Using a standard light microscope with a camera attached, the light source is polarized and passed through the crystal. This creates the colors we see…”
Read the rest here.

Earworm of the Day: Nothing Else Matters‬ by‪ Scala & Kolacny Brothers

A Crow Chick Visits

A big thank you to true-indigo for taking these movies.

Savage Chickens: Cat Adventures Episode 8

via savage chickens

Indigo: The Colour that Seduced the World

Indigo by Catherine E McKinley
will be published in August 2011

via delancyplace
“Until the most recent times, color dyes were rare and precious commodities upon which power and fortunes were built. Indigo, the brilliant blue dye made from plants, was one of America's slavery-based cash crops. But long before it was exported by America, indigo dye had been one of the world's great treasures for thousands of years. Referred to by some as blue gold, it caught the imagination of connoisseurs, and merchants and colonialists with its power to bewitch and its transcendent beauty — and the value and demand for indigo became ungovernable. It sparked bitter trade wars, and touched off impassioned European and North American legislation and political debate and became known as The Devil’s Dye.”
Read the rest here.

Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century

via nytimes
“Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century is a new documentary by Richard Kegler. It is a video document of the late Jim Rimmer, the Canadian designer of almost 200 typefaces. In the film, Rimmer, who died in 2010, painstakingly demonstrates the lost art of pantographic type making. The pantograph is a mechanical device, based on parallelograms, which allows the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, to replicate that movement with a second pen. A craftsperson can draw on one side at a particular size, and on the other the type is “reproduced” at a chosen point size…”

“Is producing this display of vintage technology simply hanging on to the old for dear life, or is there a good reason for designers to know these processes? Kegler responds: “In any field of expertise there is a history and a cumulative reason that things are the way they are. How many Adobe Illustrator users know that kerning, leading, picas and points are terms that should have absolutely no relevance on the computer, but do, since they are direct analogies to the terms and processes of hundreds of years ago? The more time that designers spend on the screen, the more valuable the hand processes become. There is great subtlety and unique flavor in heirloom typefaces.”
Read more about the making of the documentary here, the DVD is available for order here, and the blog of Making Faces is here.

It’s hard to throw away a race number...

via the mehallo blog
Turn your Tivek racing numbers into custom clothing; a cap or windbreaker. By Rick at ElevenGear.
Info/order here.

99 Bottles; Their Caps on the Wall

via things neatly organized
“Arizona-based artist, William LeGoullon collected 99 bottle caps from one of his state’s remaining drive-in movie theaters as part of his Intermission series.”
See more of his work here.

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Jim Cosgrove: No Mother Could Give More

via NPR
“This is egg laying season, if you're a bird. If you're an octopus, particularly a giant Pacific octopus, you've been there, done that. In fact, you died doing it, in what is the saddest mommy story I've heard in a long while. It comes from biologist Jim Cosgrove who describes it all in a lecture he calls, “No Mother Could Give More.’ ”
Read the rest here.