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Long before Edward Snowden leaked the Prism documents, Sang Mun served two years of mandatory service for the the Korean military, gathering intelligence under the NSA. He didn’t choose to publish any classified documents, but he’s encouraging a counter-surveillance revolution in his own way: by designing ZXX a typeface that thwarts prying eyes.

“Sometimes these ideas about privacy can feel large and abstract to the average person,” Mun tells Co.Design. “ZXX might bridge the disconnect between the supercomputers at Fort Meade and someone’s Microsoft Word at home.”

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Apple’s WWDC keynote was largely about catching up. Fix iCloud. Release a subscription music service. And ditch all the skeuomorphism that was making them look hokey next to their contemporaries.

For those who’ve been following the minutiae of interface design, you’ll see that many of their ideas, from OS X Maverick to iOS7 are actually old, or at the very least familiar. You can’t look at Apple’s latest software without seeing the influence of Windows 8, Android, and yes, even Chromebooks. But as Steve Jobs once famously paraphrased (and the tech press has mentioned way too often), “Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” Here’s some of what Apple stole in their latest software updates and, in many cases, made better:

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via Fast Company http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672799/5-ideas-apple-stole-from-google-twitter-and-microsoft?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29

It was just an equals sign. But during recent legislative procedures around the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that little icon repainted Facebook as a bright red rallying cry for civil rights. For the Human Rights Campaign, it was a social coup. Now, two designers want to double down on the idea. Equality Sans, by Caprice Yu and Steve Peck, is a free-to-use typeface to show your support for marriage equality.

“With Equality Sans, the message is in the medium,” the team writes. “An act as ubiquitous as typing on your computer can have a deeper meaning.”

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via Fast Company http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672387/a-font-for-supporters-of-marriage-equality?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29

Every minute, Kobe Bryant makes $162.55. By comparison, a family doctor–what most of us consider a decent occupation!–makes $1.35. In that same amount of time, an elementary teacher makes $0.43 (yes, forty three cents). And a minimum-wage worker pulls in just over a dime–a mere $0.12.

For CNNMoney, designer BÃ¥rd Edlund created a fantastic animation to visualize this disparity. But rather than turning to stacks of gold or even bar graphs, Edlund rendered the data in circles. Which may not sound all that radical–but in data visualization, the area (or value) of circles can be difficult to compare.

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via Fast Company http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672298/infographic-60-seconds-of-kobe-bryant-s-salary-vs-a-school-teachers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29

The incredible story behind one of the world’s most famous magazine covers.

via Fast Company http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671009/50-years-ago-the-original-mad-man-s-first-esquire-cover?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29

196 countries. 350,000 sites. 2,000,000 links. 1 giant picture.

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