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This Valentine's Day, ditch the perishable gifts (chocolates, flowers, kittens) and stock up on sturdy journals from Ex Libris Anonymous. Determined to "rescue hardcover books from a fate worse than death," the Portland-based company creates spiral-bound blank books from its ever-changing collection of beautiful vintage tomes, including cherished childhood classics, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries and pre-molecular gastronomy cookbooks. The old-school titles live on not only through their original covers but also inside the new journal, where the Ex Libris elves scatter a few pages of the original book amongst the fresh white pages for posterity.
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Are you a kerning pro? Put your typographic knowledge to the test with KernType, a fontastic online game created by interaction designer Mark MacKay. Your goal: to achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. When you're done nudging, your solution is compared to the "typographer’s solution" and rated on a scale of 1 to 100. Once you've mastered KernType using clicks (of the arrow keys or a mouse), grab an iPad and try your hand at finger-kerning. |
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The tiny shampoos and shower gels on offer in hotel bathrooms may boast increasingly well-designed labels and containers, but we can't help but imagine landfills teeming with almost-empty versions. Enter Clean the World, an Orlando-based nonprofit that is on a mission to collect all those discarded soaps and bottled unguents, sanitize them, and distribute them around the world to stop the spread of preventable diseases. Ready to do your part for this global hygiene revolution? Clean the World's website offers step-by-step instructions on how to hold your own soap drive, and next time you stay at a hotel, take a moment to mention the Clean the World Hospitality program (megabrands such as Mandarin Oriental have already signed on as partners). You’re bound to check out with a clean conscience. |
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