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Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves | Smashing UX Design -
“Have you ever looked at a bizarre building design and wondered, “What were the architects thinking?” Or have you simply felt frustrated by a building that made you uncomfortable, or felt anger when a beautiful old building was razed and replaced with a contemporary eyesore? You might be forgiven for thinking “these architects must be blind!” New research shows that in a real sense, you might actually be right.”
Amsterdam-based Bryan Stewart created a typeface based on unique DNA. ‘Skin Type’ features the capital letters A to Z written in black ink on Stewart’s skin. “Everyone has one. Any time you’ve written on your hand, you’ve created one,” he wrote about the typeface. What does your skin type look like? (via ‘Skin Type’: What Is Your Unique DNA Typeface? - DesignTAXI.com)
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Saw this earlier in the week, although this photograph is by far one of the coolest I’ve seen of this one-a-year event.
If you head to Yosemite National Park this time of year and stop by Horsetail Fall at just the right time, you might see something spectacular: As the sun sinks low in the sky, the waterfall glows with streaks of gold and yellow — and it looks just like molten lava.
Photographers like Michael Frye flock to the park every February to try to capture the phenomenon. Frye, author of The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite, describes the sight to NPR’s Audie Cornish.
(via From Waterfall To Lavafall: Yosemite’s Fleeting Phenomenon : The Picture Show : NPR)
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