A history of fonts

This creative animation takes a brief, intriguing look at the development of typography over time…

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New Treasury Secretary updates his signature to not “debase” U.S. currency

You may remember from back in January that Jack Lew, who Obama nominated for Secretary of the Treasury, had an entirely illegible signature.

This is funny, of course, because the Treasury Secretary’s signature appears on our currency. During the nomination, Obama joked…

Jack assures me that he is going to work to make at least one letter legible in order not to debase our currency should he be confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury.

This got some laughs, but apparently it wasn’t entirely a joke. The latest annual report (PDF) from the Financial Stability Oversight Council shows a new and improved autograph from Mr. Lew…

(via The Wall Street Journal)

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5 more movie poster cliches (with plenty of examples)

We’ve seen cliche movie poster collections before — Big heads over beaches, through the legs, cute red dresses, etc. Since then, the designer who brought us those has collected more…

(Click the collections for larger versions.)

Benches

Graphical Blindfolds

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This history of the cover art for “The Great Gatsby” [21 pictures]

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 with the classic cover that many of us will recognize — A dark blue back ground with the eyes and mouth of an otherwise invisible face set over a glimmering cityscape…

Since the original edition, numerous graphic designers and artists have re-presenting this classic to the masses. Scholar and Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli has collected many of these editions over the years and they are now housed at the University of South Carolina…

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Carved wooden cabinet designed to look like a glitchy, corrupted photograph

There’s nothing wrong with this picture. It’s exactly the way architect Ferruccio Laviani designed it…

It’s called the “Good Vibrations Storage Unit” and will be on display at Italy’s interior design show Fratelli Boffi.

(via Colossal)

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