+SAMOA #8 is a well-designed journal from São Paulo with a focus on the independent art, music, and performance scene. Worth checking out for the neat illustrations, graphics, and photos. If you can read Portuguese I’m pretty sure the articles are interesting as well. I like a lot the graffiti from Titi Freak and Tara McPherson’s illustrations.

Warm up your fingers and get ready to hit the ice with our latest Xmas game.

Seoul Railway
Seoul boasts 600 years of history as the capital of the nation, and features the grand river, the Han Gang, flowing across it. The Han River is the symbol of Seoul. Representation of the Han River in this map mimics the curvature in the middle of the Tae-Geuk mark of the national flag of Korea. The overall circular shape of the map was also inspired by the Tae-Geuk mark. The brighter area in the centre of the map, seen up close in the detail shot 1, shows the territory of Han Yang, the old capital of the Cho-Sun Dynasty. This was the old Seoul marked by the Four Gates, and the growth of the city becomes clear when compared to the modern metropolis.

To meet the requirements of global communication, every modern operating system facilitates access to a great variety of scripts: Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Braille, to name just a few. There’s also a huge number of special characters such as dingbats, copyright characters, currency symbols, mathematical characters, and punctuation.

decodeunicode is an independent platform for digital type culture, conceived and developed under the lead of professor Johannes Bergerhausen in cooperation with the designer Siri Poarangan at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. The project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and has the objectives of creating a basis for fundamental typographic research and facilitating a textual approach to the characters of the world for all computer users. That way, expert knowledge can be systematically collected and made accessible to the general public.