http://ubersuper.com Stuff I Like Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:05:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ubersuper.com/ampersand/ http://ubersuper.com/ampersand/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:03:31 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4106 A short history of the ampersand symbol. Original size: 1589×945]]> http://ubersuper.com/ampersand/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/the-art-of-hand-lettering/ http://ubersuper.com/the-art-of-hand-lettering/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:41:10 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4108 Great blog about custom hand lettering with very beautiful sketches! The Art of Hand Lettering by Alan Ariail]]> http://ubersuper.com/the-art-of-hand-lettering/feed/ 3 http://ubersuper.com/jaw-dropping-picture-of-the-sun/ http://ubersuper.com/jaw-dropping-picture-of-the-sun/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:05:17 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4084 Seriously jaw-dropping picture of the Sun by Alan Friedman.]]> http://ubersuper.com/jaw-dropping-picture-of-the-sun/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/left-brain-right-brain/ http://ubersuper.com/left-brain-right-brain/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:06:25 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=4069 Which side do you use more often? Left Brain, Right Brain (1684×1191) Nice ad/thing from Mercedes Benz.]]> http://ubersuper.com/left-brain-right-brain/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/changing-education-paradigms/ http://ubersuper.com/changing-education-paradigms/#comments Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:15:08 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3577 Another great TED talk by Ken Robinson on education.]]> http://ubersuper.com/changing-education-paradigms/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/first-picture-of-a-living-person/ http://ubersuper.com/first-picture-of-a-living-person/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:50:46 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3563 Boulevard du Temple, Paris, IIIe arrondissement, Daguerreotype. The purportedly first picture of a living person. The image shows a busy street, but due to exposure time of more than ten minutes, the traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is the man at the bottom left, who stood still getting his boots polished [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/first-picture-of-a-living-person/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/from-an-1800s-lettering-sketchbook/ http://ubersuper.com/from-an-1800s-lettering-sketchbook/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:14:39 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3531 This flourished fraktur capital letter M was pasted into a sketchbook of romantic and medial lettering (traces, copies?) that some wonderful British gentlemen put together during the nineteenth century. Showed to us in the fantastic Monday afternoon sessions with Michael Twyman at the University of Reading. 1800s Lettering Sketchbook on Flickr]]> http://ubersuper.com/from-an-1800s-lettering-sketchbook/feed/ 1 http://ubersuper.com/a-20-things-i-learned/ http://ubersuper.com/a-20-things-i-learned/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:53:14 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=3262 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web by google. Really nice.]]> http://ubersuper.com/a-20-things-i-learned/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/the-earths-oldest-trees/ http://ubersuper.com/the-earths-oldest-trees/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:40:46 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=2769 Trembling Giants by Michæl Paukner, great designer and musician from Austria.]]> http://ubersuper.com/the-earths-oldest-trees/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/through-the-gyre/ http://ubersuper.com/through-the-gyre/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:37:45 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=2739 By now, most of us are aware that there is a large patch of floating plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What you may know is that it’s not made up of plastic bags and empty bottles. It’s made up of billions of tiny pieces of plastic, and it’s basically invisible unless you’re [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/through-the-gyre/feed/ 1 http://ubersuper.com/the-very-many-varieties-of-beer/ http://ubersuper.com/the-very-many-varieties-of-beer/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:10:59 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=2694 Nice beer infographic over at Pop Chart Lab.]]> http://ubersuper.com/the-very-many-varieties-of-beer/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/geological-history-of-earth/ http://ubersuper.com/geological-history-of-earth/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:17:06 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=2669 Nice infographic on this Wikipedia entry: Geological history of Earth, it’s available in hi-res too.]]> http://ubersuper.com/geological-history-of-earth/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/the-brain-infographic/ http://ubersuper.com/the-brain-infographic/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:19:39 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=2665 Unfortunately not the most beautiful infographic, but quite interesting nevertheless.]]> http://ubersuper.com/the-brain-infographic/feed/ 2 http://ubersuper.com/origins-of-the-worlds-most-important-typefaces/ http://ubersuper.com/origins-of-the-worlds-most-important-typefaces/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:19:59 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=2187 Who would have thought that these little letters that we type out on our keyboards could have such a colorful history? Typeface, or font, is the stylistic unity of letters used in type. We see different fonts in magazines, print, advertisement, campaigns – even in text messaging. But have you ever given much thought as [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/origins-of-the-worlds-most-important-typefaces/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/design-is-history/ http://ubersuper.com/design-is-history/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:12:11 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=2098 Design Is History is Part of the graduate thesis of designer Dominic Flask, this site was created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. It is supposed to provide brief overviews of a wide range of topics rather than an in-depth [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/design-is-history/feed/ 1 http://ubersuper.com/photos-of-frozen-niagra-falls-in-1911/ http://ubersuper.com/photos-of-frozen-niagra-falls-in-1911/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:17:18 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=1330 Vintage nature photos from the frozen Niagara falls in 1911.]]> http://ubersuper.com/photos-of-frozen-niagra-falls-in-1911/feed/ 9 http://ubersuper.com/half-million-galaxies/ http://ubersuper.com/half-million-galaxies/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:11:21 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=1123 Whoa. That’s a part of a huge image just released by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey Deep Field #1, a ginormous mosaic of the night sky… and by ginormous, I mean GINORMOUS. It covers a solid square degree of sky — 5 times the area of the full Moon — and tips the scale at [...]]]> http://ubersuper.com/half-million-galaxies/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/strange-maps/ http://ubersuper.com/strange-maps/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:46:47 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=1039 World Map from the 17th Century. Old map from London. (mid 19th Century) If you enjoyed these, you might also want to check out this older posting on old scanned maps.]]> http://ubersuper.com/strange-maps/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/ted-talk-ken-robinson-says-schools-kill-creativity/ http://ubersuper.com/ted-talk-ken-robinson-says-schools-kill-creativity/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:21:02 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=977 TED is amazing and every video I’ve watched was worth the time spent. Today I came across this TED Talk from 2006 and simply loved it. TED Talk: Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity]]> http://ubersuper.com/ted-talk-ken-robinson-says-schools-kill-creativity/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/50-years-of-space-exploration/ http://ubersuper.com/50-years-of-space-exploration/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:53:38 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=669 What a nice Infographic! Don’t miss the original version (3861x1706px), it’s beautiful!]]> http://ubersuper.com/50-years-of-space-exploration/feed/ 0 http://ubersuper.com/causes-of-color/ http://ubersuper.com/causes-of-color/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:22:34 +0000 Stefan http://ubersuper.com/?p=326 Why is the sky blue? Why is fire yellow? What causes the vivid colors in sapphires or emeralds? What do diamonds and rainbowshave in common? Is there a connection between fall colors and flamingos? Causes of Color]]> http://ubersuper.com/causes-of-color/feed/ 0