iPhone font created out of 540 apps and a love for the arcane (video)

No, we can’t give you a clear reason why this particular chap did this particular thing, but good gravy, look at the pretty pictures! We’ve come across an iPhone-inspired font that looks to have been created by collating and color coding a vast collection of apps in order to properly represent the English alphabet. There’s [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series’ cutting room floor is an extravaganza of bright colors and chunky fonts

It’s hard to argue that Windows Phone 7 Series’ Metro UI concept isn’t utterly unique in the mobile world, but it was wasn’t the only option Microsoft considered — far from it, in fact. The company has published a bunch a design concepts it churned through on its wild, wacky journey to finalizing Metro as [...]

First Shots of Microsoft’s Secret Project Pink Phone [Exclusive]

These are the first photos of Microsoft’s Project Pink phones, snatched from deep within the bowels of the Microsoft/Verizon industrio-complex —not the Turtle, but the larger, Sidekick-like Pure. This doesn’t look like Windows Phone 7, so what is it?

The shots come just hours after a leaked advertising campaign for the Turtle outed Verizon as a [...]

Happy Birthday, Steve [Steve Jobs]

Here’s to the crazy one. The mercurial. The rebel. The market maker. The lucky guy with the new liver. The one who sees things differently. He’s not fond of rules and bad typography. And he has no respect for mediocrity.

You can praise him, disagree with him, quote him, disbelieve him, glorify or vilify him. About [...]

These Venetian Blinds Make Me Want to Stick With Curtains [Design]

I like my typography the same way I like my coffee and men. Hot and confusion-free. These venetian blinds are neither. They look neat, but I can’t figure out why you want to spell something out in blinds.

Do I just have abnormal windows? Does the rest of the world have ones that spell things out [...]