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From the frequently good Andrei Michael Herasimchuk at Design By Fire.

“…Please consider releasing eight to twelve core fonts into the public domain. The amount of revenue lost from a small core set of fonts surely can’t have a significant impact on Adobe’s bottom line. And the gesture of releasing such a set into the public domain would have many positive ripple effects for years to come…”

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Nick O, one of the smartest guys I ever had the pleasure of sharing a quad cube with, has come up with a nifty CSS method for multiple column table-free layouts which uses a little bit of extra code to avoid a lot of extra cross-browser headache.

Read about CSS Sleeves and take a look at Jellyfish, a Madison-based “Buying Engine” that Nick worked on.

We are a few weeks behind on this one but OCUPOP would like to congratulate our friends Tony and Nicole and welcome Archer Evan Cooke to the world (Wide Web).

Archer currently spends his days sleeping to the soothingly subliminal sounds of Edward Tufte books on tape.

In his spare time, he enjoys hanging out on MySpace and putting off prepping for the PSAT.

Kids these days…

Welcome Archer aboard and check out his site at archer.40weight.com

While you were busy with your BBQ’s and Jarts, we were out simultaneously redefining surfing, waterskiing, and wakeboarding…unbelievably, no one was hurt.

We are proud to announce the launch of the Garelick MFG Website, a site of monumental marine proportions!

Click around. Pick out a comfy new seat to pimp out your pontoon. Let us know what you think of it.

It must be fall…the chill in the air, the changing leaves, and the launch of the full complement of new Burton sites!

Doing our part to get you in that romantic autumnal mood, we proudly announce the new Midwest Represent site. Learn more about this project here.

In what is being touted as an absolute coup, OCUPOP designers wrapped up fashion week with the introduction of their much-anticipated soccer line. The buzz in both the prized Soccermom and Hypebeast demographics seems positive so far…and now, oddly enough, look what Major League Soccer decided to do today.  It is about time they caught up, OCUPOP is so Euro-forward.
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Honeyee is a website run by Hiroshi Fujiwara, a former Japanese pop star turned streetwear tastemaker. The site is mostly comprised of Japanese language posts about hipster Japanese events but also has a selection of blogs written by a group handpicked by Fujiwara which can be interesting on a daily basis if you are into the street art/streetwear/skate/sneaker/coolkid toy cultures. It sort of gives you a documentary style view into the lives of the people running the games.

The full list of contributors can be found here.

I recommend checking out Jeff Staple (Staple Design, Nike, Reed Space), Paul Mittleman (Supreme, Stussy), Kaws (KawsOne, OriginalFake), Keith Hufnagel (Huf, Real Skatebaords, DVS), and John Mayer (who I am just beginning to forgive for “Your Body is a Wonderland”)

I found this post about the resemblence between the industrial design of a 1960 speaker and the current iMac while browsing through the stuff I had missed on SVN the past couple weeks.

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One of my earliest memories of connecting with the world of modern art was discovering a back issue of “Art in America” in my high school freshman art class featuring “Rabbit” by Jeff Koons on its cover. Fast forward 15 years and I find Koons creating a series of limited edition decks for Supreme.

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