Okay so Bearfire Resort, located near Dallas, TX, is going to have a huge mountain of fake snow.  Not manmade snow, but some weirdo plastic polymer franken-snow.

Fake snow. via core77 via geekologie

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I should separate this into two posts, so as to watch my blog grow, but whatever.

Business card calendar design challenge.  - An interesting challenge to fit a year’s calendar on a business card in a legible way.  Lot of the designs have overlapping features, but all pretty good.

Pentagram 2008 Typography Calendar. - Just going to copy/paste the description.

Kit Hinrichs has designed Pentagram’s 2008 Classic Typographic Calendar using twelve typefaces designed by typographer Matthew Carter including Walker (originally designed in 1995 for the Walker Art Center), Snell Roundhand (a 1966 revival of 17th century English writing master Charles Snell) and Galliard (a 1978 anthology of Roman and Italian styles of French punch-cutter Robert Granjon). “I wanted to bring a new awareness of typographic design through this calendar,” said Hinrichs. “Typefaces are pervasive in our daily lives in everything we read and see around us and yet most people are oblivious of them or the circumstances in which they were created. We can gain a new perspective on our world by studying the origin of typefaces. I hope the calendar will encourage a new sensitivity to the importance of typeface usage and the work of Matthew Carter.”

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Profile of Momofuku’s David Chang.

I am more interested in Ssam Bar than the other Momofukus.  I tried to last time I was in NYC, but ran out of time.  David Chang seems like an interesting guy.  I can relate to some of what he says in the interview.

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Engagement ring shapes.

While the classic round brilliant cut is still the most popular, apparently square cuts are en vogue.  I’m aways away from considering any of this, and I’m a classic style kind of guy, so round brilliant still my preferred choice, but asscher cut very nice as well.

edit: After a little looking, it’s round, cushion, Asscher.  If the Tiffany Novo (below) wasn’t so expensive it might cut in before the Asscher.

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