Posted on March 2nd, 2010

One of the sites that I visit regularly is ilovetypography.com. A quick glance upon getting to the homepage reveals the sheer amount of information available on this site. Aside from the free desktop wallpapers and stuff you can buy, there is always good reading within a click or two.
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Typography, Web Design
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Rafi
Tags: Typography, Web Design
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Posted on February 9th, 2010

Artist Justin van Genderen makes traveling to planets in the Star Wars universe look so retro hip that you would probably have to knock and have a codeword ready to enter places like Cloud City or Tatooine. View the rest with Justin van Genderen’s Flickr stream which popped up on illustration and cartoon art blog [...]
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Posters, Retro, Science, Science Fiction, Travel
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Rafi
Tags: Justin van Genderen, Posters, Retro, Simon Page, Star Wars, Travel
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Posted on February 9th, 2010

The map, titled Milky Way Transit Authority, was created by Harvard computational sociologist Samuel Arbesman. He had the idea to make the map while reading Carl Sagan’s Contact and contemplating the organization and presentation of galactic data in a format that is familiar easy-to-read, such as a subway map. Arbesman said:
This map is an attempt [...]
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Maps, Posters, Transportation
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Rafi
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Posted on January 7th, 2010

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first glimpse of the night sky with a telescope, and the publication of Kepler’s Astronomia Nova, The United Nations declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy. To promote the year-long celebration, they hired Simon Page.
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History, Posters
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Rafi
Tags: Astronomy, History, Mathematics, Posters, Simon Page, United Nations
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