Hi, how's it going? I'm Justin. I live in Brooklyn and design at 
Bike Pond Brainstorming.
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Find the topless man.
Such a big family
As I was reading, I came across this sentence: “It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern….” Thinking this was simply a glitch in the software, I ignored the intrusive word and continued reading. Some pages later I encountered the rogue word again. With my third encounter I decided to retrieve my hard cover book and find the original (well, the translated) text.
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Ocracoke Island Journal: Nookd
Sketchy, sketchy, B&N
I made a logo and it only took five years.
Western Monarchy is a name I came up with in 2007 when I first had the idea of putting all my personal work behind an alias. It’s stuck with me since then. I might even LLC that sucker.
My Evernote list of personal projects has been growing for years as I never find time to bring them past the planning stages. Last night I made my first browser extension (more on that later) and it needed a home. Thus Western Monarchy was finally born. Here’s hoping that the momentum keeps going.
I’ve always been fascinated by heraldry and I like this trend of quadrant logo design. The crown in the west represents, well, western monarchy. The moon in the north is my recreation of The Moon tarot card. The bear in the east is a bear, enough said. The brackets in the south are Inconsolata and are just nerdy.
The typeface is the great League Gothic. I messed around with a lot of serifs and didones but they didn’t do it for me. I’ve wanted to use a narrow sans-serif for awhile and this was my chance. The year is in Georgia small caps, whose numbers I’ve always loved…even though these are roman.
The page background on westernmonarchy.com is from subtle patterns which I darkened in photoshop.
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Microsoft Launches Socl Social Network: A Look Inside
It’s confusing about why anyone wants to use this given how many other social networks are out there, much less Microsoft already having baked social sharing into Bing.
I wish Microsoft would give up on the Internet. It is painful to watch them stake claims like this.
Microsoft: makes social network…you sign-in to with Facebook.
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Made in New York City
A map of NYC start-ups, incubators and investors. Also includes information about companies that are hiring if you’re in the market.
Wow, cool map. NYC is so busy!
This is a cool map but no one will get to Vimeo because the alphabet is an arbitrary and cruel mistress of sorting and privilege.
