the Movie title stills collection
Here’s a collection of stills from the title sequences of movies from the 1920 through the present.
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The 1% More Savings Calculator
The 1% More Savings Calculator
Little changes add up to big differences.
Increasing your savings by one more percentage point – or even better, another percentage point a year – can add up to big additional savings over time.
The NYT has a handy calculator to show you how much money you could save over time if you just increased your savings rate by 1% per year.
Philographics
Philographics is a project by Designer Genis Carreras that seeks to capture and sum up various philosophical schools of thought in minimalist posters.
For example:
You can see them all on her site.
Road trip! American student joins rebels in fight for Qaddafi stronghold. (via The National)
Chris Jeon, a 21-year-old university student from Los Angeles, California,shrugging cooly, declared: “It is the end of my summer vacation, so I thought it would be cool to join the rebels. This is one of the only real revolutions” in the world.
What I’ve Learned
One of my favorite part of Esquire Magazine is the monthly What I’ve Learned feature, which showcases life lessons from accomplished celebrities, writers, artists, musicians and statesmen.
The whole collection, with hundreds of interviews, is available here.
Which are you favorites?
The First World Problems
Cross pollinating brands
What happens when you display one prominent brand with another brands iconography? Logo Designer Graham Smith tries to answer that question with his Brand Revisions.
There’s more on his site.
The evolution of the web
Chrome turns three today. In celebration Google put together this interactive HTML5 infographic that maps out a timeline of the evolution of the web and how we see it.
Chrome continues to be my window to the world (online anyway), and I’m excited to see what the next three years has in store for it.
(via The evolution of the web)
BOWIE’S ‘SPACE ODDITY’
Here’s some samples of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” drawn into a children’s book by illustrator, Andrew Kolb. The link to the full book is at the bottom of the page…
Written by David Bowie & Illustrated by Andrew Kolband
Here’s the full thing in a nice big PDF
