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I decided to take all the blog posts, Twitter messages, and Flickr images I made this year, combine them, typeset them, and then get it printed in a hard-bound book. I wrote a bit about the reasoning here.

Little Printer is Patent Pending.

Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.

Jack explains his notion of the service: it’s a way to preserve the contents of your notebook as an archive, whilst keeping the book in use as an ongoing tool. When you get to the second fold of scrim, you should find a note telling you it’s time to send the book off to be dismantled. This needs to be a really fast process for the service to work well – overnight, ideally; whilst your notebook is away, you won’t be able to take notes, so we need to make sure it can be returned to you as fast as you can. Fortunately, rebinding the book is a very, very quick process, especially for a skilled binder. It is, after all, just glue.

Design for pockets is important

NoteSlate is low cost tablet device with true one colour display, real paper look design, long life battery (180h !), together with very handy usage and very simple and helpful interface for pen and paper.

Find a receipt, a business card, a list, a piece of paper…

If you are like me, your pocket is full of little notes and reminders written on tiny, crumpled slips of paper.

Just like the main event, this one-off paper packs plenty of opinion. Within the pages you'll find specially commissioned contributions from established and notable designers, and much more besides.

They tear out each page, and apply the relevant changes to their paper maps with a pencil and transfer paper. They’re paper map diffs, if you like.

There's no paper involved until you're boarding the flight, when a 'boarding receipt' is handed to you upon swiping the card again at the gate, containing basic flight details. It's a physical shadow of the SMS's digital record.

The viewer is presented with a simple glass bottle and a plank of wood. Five distinct quotes surround five separate areas of the wooden platform. Upon being picked up and moved across the plank, the bottle triggers different sounds. The five auditory signals serve as another form of guidance, each relating to a certain quote. Once the container is placed on a specific point, an image or animation is projected into it. Each one of the five locations has its own set of imagery evoking a different character’s life. Every time the bottle is placed on a point, a new aspect of that person’s story is revealed.

The user moves a bottle across a board to reveal five stories through sound, images and animations.

To ease the access to the elusive topic, the book is designed as a model of a dream about dreaming. Analogue to a dream, where pieces of reality are assembled to build a story, it brings different text excerpts together. They are connected by threads which tie in with certain key words. The threads visualise the confusion and fragileness of dreams.

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This package provides an essential feature to LaTeX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding it manually.

Over the last couple of months I’ve been building up a social microprinter

Who knew that texting was more expensive than inkjet printing by a factor of 20?

building the SimCity itself, but also studying the game systems, wading through equations, and working out optimal spatial solutions on graph paper.

When you receive your print, you'll find that it's curled inward upon itself, the result of its confinement within a sturdy U-Line mailing tube. Rolled up posters do not display nearly as well as those that lie flat, so your first order of business should be to revert this cylinder to a broad rectangle. You may accomplish this by rolling it out upon a flat surface, placing several heavy books upon it, and letting it sit for a day or two. Or you may wrap the poster around the outside of the mailing tube in the opposite direction of its curl, use rubber bands to affix the ends, and let it sit for an hour or two, thereby allowing the mailing tube to amend the foul havoc it has wrought.

I arrived at college in 1984 with my electric typewriter and a bit of BASIC learned in high school. I was a geography major, and learned to make maps in a cartography lab with vellum, ink, light tables, X-acto knives, and rub-on letters.

How automatic? Updating the design of the entire site and the PDF is one command.

I have remarked that almost every traveller who is distinguished for the copiousness and accuracy of his journals, has written them in a remarkably small but distinct handwriting.

»Formulare gestalten.« [Designing forms.] is a comprehensive guide book for the designing of paper and online forms. It proves that the design of application forms, order forms, questionnaires, checklists, bills, statements, tickets and certificates can be both appealing and functional. It explains how companies and public services can communicate better with better forms and examines methodically how to design forms in an user-centered way. With more than 60 case studies presented the book is a reference for designers, private companies and public services.

Une carte subjective, c'est une carte réalisée par un habitant ou un groupe d'habitants avec l'aide d'une équipe de géographes du dimanche ou autres artistes. Elle est ensuite imprimée et rendue publique dans les espaces de communication officiels des villes.