A Study of "Table of Contents"

A must for book designers.

Voting through Fonts

Designers tried to become voters in the U. S. presidential campaign. They looked at the fonts used in their campaign stickers instead of their personalities and issues. Well, your choice of fonts like your choice of music reflects on who you are or what you aspire for. Never mind if your team chose the design. It's still between the candidate and the font. Guess who wins? According to Boston Globe, it's Obama and McCain who show "change" in their font selection.

Paper Airplane in Space

Japan would be testing a paper airplane to fly from space to Earth. The 3-inch plane, made with the help of origami experts, is expected not to burn up at re-entry but to make sure, they will make the paper heat-proof. The problem is how to make sure that the plane made it. Scientists said they will only rely on the honesty of the person who finds it.

Human Calendar

Here's looking at you, date

Calendar at Your Fingertips

I finally got my Starbucks diary last week. I showed it to a sister and then forgot all about it. Yeah, you know the story. She now owns it. Haynaku! I have been promised two diaries so maybe I will settle for that. But this idea is really cool.


Nails grow at an average rate of 3 millimetres a month. Keeping that in mind, etch the months from June to January (depends on the length of your nails) on your thumbnail with January at the top. You can use a laser cutter or if you are a Luddite and simply ingenious, use a cutter sans laser. Every 3 mm, the month get clipped off and etch "July," for example at the base of your thumbnail or the lunula.

Tackling the Campaign Logos

Political image is everything. Logos back your image. Ward Sutton thru New York Times looks at the political frontrunners and their images projected through their campaign stickers. Another logo blogger disagrees. Another said Gilmore and Hunter failed the apostrophe test. The Diggs prefer Obama. Design lessons on anti-Bush buttons. A review of the Kerry-Bush font war.

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