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1. Far Foods

I caught James Reynolds’s Far Foods, an updated design for produce packaging, on Swissmiss. I think the boarding-pass styling might be too clever visually, but I very much like the idea of prominently displaying point-of-origin, distance traveled, and resulting CO2.

Another criticism: how much CO2 is a lot? What’s the contribution of the package? The amount given seems like a whole truck’s worth. Since viewing the wonderful Asparagus: The Movie, I am concerned these days about local vs. global produce, but CO2 data continues to escape me…

2. The last post on how Twitter works — I promise

By this point, you’re probably saying: “enough with the Twitter links!” But if you or your clients (still) need to understand Twitter, look no further than these new posts: Kevin Marks’s well-referenced How Twitter works in theory and Michael Hyatt’s Answers to the Top 10 Twitter Objections.

3. DharmaTech

As we think about the future of Design Less Better, we’re scouring the web for inspiration and precedents to guide our visioning process. One example I came across is DharmaTech:

DharmaTech is a nonprofit technology firm that is motivated, above all, by our mission to help bring about lasting social change. To accomplish this, we provide affordable and appropriate technology solutions to nonprofits working to improve our communities in a variety of fields, including conservation, human rights, public safety, social services, and the arts. We endeavor to work with nonprofits with strong leadership and strategic vision, on projects that will have a high-impact – both to the organization and the community, as well as to DharmaTech.

We provide nonprofits nationwide with website and database development, custom software development, technology infrastructure, and strategic analysis and consulting.

Replace “technology” with “design” and that starts to sound pretty good to me. If you have any other good examples, please share in the comments.

4. The History (and possible future) of Times New Roman

The Financial Times has an article on the complicated lineage of one of the most widely recognized and used fonts the world over. As someone who recently had a conversion of sorts regarding Times (I used to hate it because it was the default font in so many programs; now I know why: it’s a good font), I found it fascinating.