One of Sleepover’s earliest projects launched today: a redesign of The Bygone Bureau. Kevin and Nick were wonderful to work with and we’re really proud of the site. Don’t miss their write up of the redesign.
So good. And click on any of the articles to see how they’re displayed. Genius!
Sleepover just released a new Tumblr theme: Rubber Cement.
Ace Hotel is so cool.
- Valid point: [Publisher] should consider doing it some other way because this will alienate some readers.
- Invalid point: [Publisher] should do it my way because all content deserves to be free/ad-free/full-RSS/single-page.
Beauty almost always comes from function, the one exception being the bluetooth headset.
Having a big feature spot in the directory is really annoying, you guys.
Thanks Ben Gold TV!
PLAYS
Dan Tyminski, Harley Allen, and Pat Enright - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (from O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
The Soviets complained that Ota’s design (left) had no door; the Japanese delegation complained that the vertical line between the door and the doorframe in the Soviet design (right) made it more difficult to recognize the figure of the runner.
For Ota, the most remarkable thing was not that his design won but how similar his design was to the Soviets’. They, too, had submitted a figure of a man running out a door. He was amazed that two design teams, working independently, would develop such similar concepts, and the coincidence convinced him of the essential rightness of the running man. He came to believe he had designed not just Yukio Ota’s exit sign, not just a Japanese exit sign, but a fundamentally human exit sign, one that speaks to some primal cognitive notion of escape.
When you meet someone from Florida, know that they’ll hold their breath until you ask them if they go to Disney World every day. You have to ask them this, or they’ll die.
