Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you'll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books -- remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.
Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight (1/2 the cost of the Manhattan Project), a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result.
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Offener, von Kindern und Erziehern überall einsehbarer Rundbau, der Kindern Bewegung & Findability innerhalb der durchgängigen, wandlosen Räume ermöglicht (statt geschlossener Raum an Raum). Bewegung auch auf dem Dach.
For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan walks through a simple lesson in recognizing the ideas behind the characters and their meaning -- building from a few simple forms to more complex concepts. Call it Chineasy.
David McCandless, author of Information Is Beautiful (in the US, it's being called The Visual Miscellaneum), turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.