Designer Duh Kim in his blog 100 Days of Fonts publishes work with creative use of various fonts. As Kim explains, the main goal of her blog is the creation and publication of work using fonts from Google Fonts. At the same time, the designer tries to publish new works (each of which is also a blog containing information about her life) every day, however, by his own admission, does not always manage on time.

As “blaster”, “android” and “telepathy” fell into dictionaries We live in a time when the science fiction of the past becomes a reality, and the terms that previously appeared only in fiction are used by scientists and engineers. “Android”, “spaceship”, “clone” - all these words have long been in use. Look at Me collected 14 important science fiction terms and explains where they came from. Android People imagined mechanical creatures long before the appearance of the word “Android”.

Participants in the Helium Tears project launched a model of the X-Wing fighter from the movie “Star Wars” into space using a balloon. They reported this on their Twitter. The announcement of the launch is addressed to director JJ Abrams, who is working on the seventh episode of the Star Wars series. The authors of the launch want to receive an invitation to the premiere of the new episode of “The Force Awakens.” Helium Tears was created by Matt Kingsnorth and Phil St. Pierre.

The interface designer Luis Mena, who bought the Nexus 5 smartphone after the IOS 7 release, and then returned to the iPhone 6, compared the work with keyboards in iOS 8 and Android 5.0. Mena usually uses English, Spanish and Japanese layouts. The keyboard in Android, the designer noted, looks cleaner and gives access to a larger number of functions for fewer steps. For example, it has direct access to a comma and point, a change of tongue, short access to numbers, as well as color accents.

5 ideological arguments against blockbusters On April 23, the film "Avengers: Era of Altron" was released in the Russian rental. Look at Me sent him to watch a man who does not know anything about the Marvel cinema to understand whether the epic plot can be restored for one film. The site editor Sergei Babkin went on the assignment.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have obtained the first three-dimensional video that captures the process of turning an embryo - in this case, green algae Volvox - inside out. As scientists note, understanding this process in plants will help shed light on a similar process of formation of animal embryos, which is one of the most important stages in the formation of the fetus.

VKontakte press secretary Georgy Lobushkin said on Twitter that music on the social network will not disappear after May 1, and also will not become paid. OFFICIAL: music will not disappear from VKontakte either after May 1 or later. It will also not be paid. pic.twitter.com/HG13xJkPYC — George Lobushkin (@lobushkin) April 27, 2015 On April 24, Lobushkin already denied such rumors.

The This Is Product Management podcast features interviews with product managers about the cross-cutting disciplines they need in their work—from art to science, from tactics to strategy. This is not the first educational project of podcast creator Mike Fishbein: he founded online courses for startups Startup College .

X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer has released an image of actor Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) from the film. After some time, reports Comic Book Resources, Singer deleted the photo from Instagram, most likely hinting at the character's ability to instantly disappear by teleporting short distances. The film "X-Men: Apocalypse" is a sequel to "Days of Future Past". The film will take place in the 80s of the XX century.

How to avoid digital Middle Ages Every week, LOOK AT Me publishes a translation of one article by the English -speaking site Hopes & Fears, part of the Look At Media Publishing House. Today's text is about how libraries change under the influence of technology.

In the Instagram application for iOS and Android added three new filters. They are called Lark, Reyes and Juno. The first saturates red, enhances blue and green. He suits the landscapes. The second makes photos "vintage." And the third adds green to cold colors and white in warm colors. Thus, Juno is suitable for portraits. The developers promised to add new filters on a regular basis. In addition, they introduced emojes -based hashtags.

The best way to make a good impression In the “Lifehaccake of the Week” section, Look at Me finds ways to improve life and explains why they work. Today we tell you how to make you start to value you in the first days in the very first days. Advice In the early days, come to work a little earlier and leave A little later: the relief will be later. HOW DOES THIS WORK The first days at a new job are always a big stress.

Google announced the opening of the experimental service for the acquisition of patents on technology from individual inventors and small companies. Google announced this in an official press release. The Patent Purchase Promotion service will work from May 8 to 22 of this year. Owners will be able to provide a list of patents they have and appoint a price for them.

NASA published a series of photographs (taken by Terra and Aqua satellites) showing the formation of the iceberg B-34 in Antarctica. Photos are published by the NASA Earth Observator. Iceberg was discovered on March 6 this year. The National Center for the Ice Cover of the United States (US National Ice Center).

Anton Mukhataev admits that he always loved to run, but loved incorrectly. Two and a half weeks ago I received a letter from a fitness application by e-mail. I don’t remember what - then I had a lot of them (in the end I stopped at Runmeter ). Although I did not subscribe to this newsletter, the message turned out to be one of the most useful in a long time. “Anton,” said there.