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Recently, KNI announced the launch of one of their latest projects; the identity and full site for Go see it.

Alexander Pettersson is a helluva talented Swedish Designer, Animator & Illustrator. Take some time today to watch some of his works and his 2012 Reel. It's a small time investment for such an inspiring return; such great design and fluid movement from start to finish.

Tapestry is a new iOS application that creates "tappable stories" - short-form narratives that the reader taps through short sequences. It's a bit of light reading and creative re-imagining of a familiar story structure. Available now in the App Store. It's a Betaworks company - including the work of Patrick Moberg.

The app was inspired by Fish: a tap essay - another app worth checking out that creatively displays "the difference between liking something on the internet and loving something on the internet."

Have you been keeping up with the latest offerings from Jay Howell; including his recently released Tiny Showcase print Space Streak? He just keeps getting better and better.

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Did you know there is a Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography? It's a free and open to the public repository of creations from Mr Lubalin himself. The space itself looks like a phenomenal place to get inspired. However, since we can't all visit the physical space (myself included) there's always their immersive Flickr stream that has so much crazy goodness it's hard to even comprehend.

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I'll withhold any commentary about spending priorities and just enjoy this phenomenal Sony Music Timeline installation that recently when up in their offices. The typographic design from Alex Fowkes is unbelievable - both in it's impressive execution and it's scale. I can't imagine an undertaking of this size and managing to come out so impressive from end to end. The photos and timelapse videos do a good job of giving an overview of the piece. Dive in.

Benoit Paille has plenty of great night photos but this LSD set is certainly worth an extra gander. I'm typically the first to call BS on some hippie dippie photographic musings but there really is some unspoken something that makes these appealing. I wish I could properly articulate the allure of them but I can't.. so just go enjoy.

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Though not directly related to Caspar V's Dark City set that was previously posted this group of images from Thierry Cohen are thematically similar. Villes eteintes / Darkened Cities takes the silhouettes of cities and blends them with the starfields that you'd see if there wasn't the persistent light pollution we've all become accustomed to. There's something eerie and almost apocalyptic about these creations - be sure to view them all.

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It only exists as an idea at the moment but John Onolan's proposal for an alternative to Wordpress entitled Ghost is pretty solid. The pitch looks good and the thinking behind it is simple - Wordpress isn't laser focused on blogging anymore, let's circle the wagons and concentrate exclusively on that one portion of web publishing.

While I enjoy the pitch I think it's safe to say that this is similar to how Wordpress actually started and it just grew over time. It's not so much code bloat or scope creep as it is feeding the needs of your users. Ghost looks like a nice reset but could easily have the same fate, no?

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Love the concept behind Wantful - define your price range and the kind of person you're shopping for and, viola, options. It may not be any sort of magic bullet for your needs but the design is great - clean, fun and useful. Consider it bookmarked for Christmas.

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Is it wrong to find enjoyable art amidst the depressing devastation from Hurricane Sandy? I hope not because this Dark City set from Caspar is mind bogglingly good. My site still isn't setup yet to properly showcase multiple images so be sure that you hit up the whole set - maybe even with the lights off - to get the full impact. It's great.

Remember that excellent profile last month of Jeff Ogiba courtesy of Dust and Grooves? Well, they're at it again with this quality interview with Rebecca Birmingham. She's got some great insight on country music, R&B, vinyl collection and a little insight on the art of diction. Oh, and the mix she submitted is pretty phenomenal...

On March 21, 1947 the NYC 122nd Police Precinct received an anonymous tip that there was a dead body inside of 2078 Fifth Avenue; the home of Homer and Langley Collyer. Upon investigation the police were met with 140 tons of trash blocking their way in. Over the course of their quest to find this body a group of 600 people gathered outside the home to watch the spectacle; ultimately ending in the discovery of Langley Collyer's body - a casualty of one of his own booby traps. The next question was, where was his brother?

And that's just part of the story. Check out this great slideshow to see images of the interior of the home and then put down everything you're doing to consume their Wikipedia entry which I am sure you will find just as fascinating as I did (a bit sad too but, ultimately, fascinating).