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10 Latin Phrases You Pretend to Understand

nevver:

  • 1. Caveat Emptor
    (KAV-ee-OT emp-TOR): “Let the buyer beware”
  • 2. Persona Non Grata
    (puhr-SOH-nah non GRAH-tah): “An unacceptable person”
  • 3. Habeas Corpus
    (HAY-bee-as KOR-pus): “You have the body”
  • 4. Cogito Ergo Sum
    (CO-gee-toe ER-go SOME): “I think, therefore I am”
  • 5. E Pluribus Unum
    (EE PLUR-uh-buhs OOH-nuhm): “Out of many, one”
  • 6. Quid Pro Quo
    (kwid proh KWOH): “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”
  • 7. Ad Hominem
    (ad HAH-mi-nem): “To attack the man”
  • 8. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
    (ad-MA-yor-em DAY-ee GLOR-ee-um): “All for the Greater Glory of God”
  • 9. Memento Mori
    (meh-MEN-toh MOR-ee): “Remember, you must die”
  • 10. Sui Generis
    (SOO-ee JEN-er-is): “Of its own genus,” or “Unique and unable to classify”

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ilovecharts:

Reading Your Tire
via mnkr 

I learned this 20 years ago when I designed press ads for Bridgestone Tyres!

ilovecharts:

Reading Your Tire

via mnkr 

I learned this 20 years ago when I designed press ads for Bridgestone Tyres!

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Blog | The Noun Project: Designing Icons for Web Cartography

thenounproject:

For our latest guest blog post we invited designer / cartographer Saman Bemel Benrud to talk about the unique challenges presented when designing icons for maps. Saman is one of the creators of Maki which is an open source map icon project. We are proud to announce the Maki collection is now…

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“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”
RIP Maurice Sendak.
(by Cameron Booth)

“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”

RIP Maurice Sendak.

(by Cameron Booth)

I love Art Nouveau most of all.

(via btx91)

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nickoftimela:

Original NYC City Hall subway station, 1904. 

nickoftimela:

Original NYC City Hall subway station, 1904. 

typethatilike:

Seagram’s Rebranding

thedieline.com

zeroing:

Cameron Booth

Still one of my favourite photos I’ve ever taken. Nice to see it getting some love.

zeroing:

Cameron Booth

Still one of my favourite photos I’ve ever taken. Nice to see it getting some love.

heyoscarwilde:

GASP!

artwork by Jiro Kuwata :: scanned from Chip Kidd’s Bat-Manga :: Pantheon Books :: 2008

ilovecharts:

Whoa.

Yup.

ilovecharts:

Whoa.

Yup.

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uxwonders:

Co-founder of Geoloqi Aaron Parecki has been tracking everywhere he’s been in the past 3.5 years, resulting in this nice map of Portland, Oregon.

Via http://infosthetics.com.

(via btx91)