A fontastic (sorry!!) trailer for Typophile Film Fest 4.

In November of 2005 in Paris, a professional clockmaker named Jean-Baptiste Viot, was recruited by a group called UnterGunther for the purpose of restoring the clock in the Pantheon, the 18th-century architectural masterpiece that houses famous crypts including those of Voltaire and Hugo and was the site of Foucault’s pendulum experiment.
UnterGunther are the restoration unit of a larger underground organization in Paris known as UX. I say “underground” in its most literal sense: formed in the 1980′s, UX began as a group of students who threw parties in the …

Found at Main and 7th St., Vancouver.

Searching for examples of info graphics from the New York Times, I found this great collection of work by Megan Jaegerman (on Tufte’s site no less). Also worth checking out: Matthew Ericson, the Deputy Graphics Director at the NY Times, recently gave the keynote at an info graphics conference in California. You can download the slides (pdf) for this presentation titled “Visualizing Data for the Masses: Information Graphics at The New York Times”. (all of this via: db79.com)

“The water footprint of a person, company or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the commodities, goods and services consumed by the person, company or nation.”
Designer Timm Kekeritz creates something tangible (and beautiful) through his poster design for The Virtual Water Project.

“The idea is that one artist takes a hardcover from a book, tears out the pages and draws in one half (or half draws in both halves) of the binder/diptyque. In a nod to Ray Johnson, the two books are mailed (swapped) and each of these will be finished by the other.”
-from the intro to the Flickr group “The Library” by Alex Itin, the current artist-in-residence at the Institute for the Future of the Book.
“For the past five hundred years, humans have used print — the book and its various …

Found in the alleyway at Lorne St. between 1st Ave and 2nd Ave in Vancouver.

Not since Rob Feenie took down Masaharu Morimoto in Kitchen Stadium to become Canada’s Iron Chef has one of our local darlings entered a battle of such epic proportions.
Today, center court at Coudal.com’s Layer Tennis:
Bantjes vs. Vit