Graphic design: found in a locker, the original style guide for the NYC subway - http://thestandardsmanual.com 

(1970, Massimo Vignelli, Unimark International; via)

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GoodUI is a useful list of optimised interface patterns and suggestions by @jlinowski — http://t.co/Lz8mXbin8B
— Jordan Moore (@jordanmoore) February 21, 2014

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So it's been a full week, and nobody's gone berserk that "iOS" is in Myriad and "7" is in Helvetica. Represent, typomofos!
— Hoefler&Frere-Jones (@H_FJ) June 18, 2013

Two Google brand identity style guides - http://goo.gl/ZDzNH & http://goo.gl/KzmQF

(via psfk; previously)

Video: how to design for the way we perceive - http://youtu.be/z2exxj4COhU



(38m37s; Alex Faaborg at Google I/O 2013)

Graphic design: in 1999 Railtrack commissioned symbols for 14 UK stations, now in declining circulation. Here they are.

Glasgow Central references Mackintosh. 

The architecture of Paddington Station incorporated here. 

(via Creative Review)

Quora answer: Does the Apple logo really adhere to the golden ratio? - http://goo.gl/OHtHF

Summary: no, and that's fine.
(1100 words; David Cole)

Today: putting today in perspective - http://hereistoday.com
(via @rands)

Graphic design: asking questions like, "what is the right radius for the inner corner of a nested rounded rectangle?" - http://goo.gl/he7Y2 

(1000 words; via Smashing Magazine) 

A collection of brand identity style guides, including the Barbican - http://goo.gl/qgVWx

(source: Logo Design Love; via @khoi; see also twitter logo usage guidelines, below)

Actual playing cards which are a "physical pixel-for-pixel recreation" of the cards from Solitaire in Windows 98 - http://goo.gl/hQ29u

($20, Evan Roth; via BoingBoing)

Kickstarter put together a pretty cool "Meet the team" page: http://www.kickstarter.com/team
(via Andy Baio)

Posters of things clients say to designers: 

(source) 

Yahoo is dropping the ® from its logo, in some cases physically. Marissa Mayer tweets: "Legal assures us that our trademark is implied and quite secure :)" - http://instagram.com/p/Psvy_8EME6/

One of our new Yahoo!s Andrew was really bugged by the registered trademark symbol at the end of our logo;
he's gone on a mission removing all the R's from our site and our campus. This is one on the random R's we pulled off a wall :)

(via TechCrunch)

Article: the price of logos - http://goo.gl/peJz7

(1000 words)

Graphic design: minimalist posters for fairytales by Christian Jackson - http://goo.gl/xUymq

(via Brain Pickings)

Video: graphic designer Aaron Draplin gives 50 bits of advice in 50 mins - http://vimeo.com/39441590

"I look back and. I didn't think I would like my job - as a good Midwesterner you're told 'you're gonna hate your job', you know"

(51m56s; via Signal vs. Noise)

The six types of film poster.

(via MetaFilter)

Game: where's the pixel - http://wheresthepixel.com
(via MetaFilter)

Tube colours:

(source: TfL Colour standard Issue 3 pdf; and Suprageography)