8 Seconds to type,

not if you hand-stitched it, a beautiful and somewhat ironic posters that bridge computer-generated typography and craftsmanship by Briar Mark an AUT University design student. Check her video as well.

(via FontFeed)

These paper pop-ups by Mengyu Chen are a treat, so delightful. The strict use of black and white makes it even more beautifully understated. To think that it is just a prototype phase before become a comic book. See the rest of it here.

(via Colossal)

Always a nerd, I started looking at what software was out there for my new Mac. I became enamored of apps like NetNewsWire, Delicious Library and Transmit. Maybe I’m coloring the past, but I feel like the sense came early of these not being just made, but crafted — the same way a great song or album was. Small groups of people — maybe one — had put time into thinking things through to make something great. It was the first time I knew software could be that way, that it could be made by one person who really cared — and that if I worked really hard, I could probably do it too.