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It’s nice to look at photos of your parents when they were young, and try to imagine what their lives were like. Often times you figure out how cool and awesome they were back then. The my parents were awesome blog collects all the photographic proof of people’s parents being awesome in one spot.

(via swiss-miss)

Cameron Booth, inspired by Harry Beck’s famous London underground map, created this interpretation of the US Interstate system.

As a design exercise and visually I think it looks fantastic. It also shows off beautifully the basic lines of the highway system design, for example the way interstate 80 cuts straight across the country from coast to coast.

I’m not sure how usable it is as an actual map though, I had a hard time finding Los Angeles, even though it is the second largest city in the US.

(via coudal)

I’m guessing the point of this quiz is to make fun of contemporary art. That’s fine, because in many ways if you make a quiz like this then you’re missing the point entirely. Not to mention the fact that a lot of contemporary art is precisely about figuring out this kind of distinction (think Andy Warchol readymades).

In any case, whew, I’m glad I don’t have to eat my words. I was able to get 100% on this. In my mind, this proves that maybe to the untrained eye Donald Judd and cheap furniture are indistinguishable, but in reality they are worlds apart! The whole reason I love Donald Judd is his perfect minimalism, and that is very hard to imitate.

Try to make the distinction yourself here.

Not sure what this is, but I like it. Check out Dylan Chandler’s objectsinmyhouse.com (via swissmiss)

The title of this one page website might be a little bit deceiving, for me the focus is not really typography, and the execution is so simple some may take it as nothing at all, but it really is an experiment (I love those), a test of an idea with a surprisingly engaging outcome.

“While this may not be the most practical layout on earth, it does illustrate some ideas worth mentioning. By keeping areas of content hidden until they are needed it can make a website look much cleaner. It also makes extensive use of navigation within a page (instead of between pages). I think both of these ideas should be used a lot more in web design.” – Matthew James Taylor

Try it here and read the rest of the author’s thoughts here.

then follow the flowchart!

Informative and has a good beat.

Why is this ridiculous behavior acceptable/prevalent in the web world? Is it because it’s a “new” industry? Satire does always make the best critique. (via everywhere)

The Infrastructurist has posted a great field guide to highway interchages. I love aerial photography, google earth, and such, also maps and gps devices, so this field guide seems tailor-made. Start with part 1 (via kottke)

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