Re:Design

Musings on design, business & the ampersand.

British Petroleum’s well has been pouring thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for over a month, killing thousands of animals and obliterating any sea life in its path. To make matters worse, there’s no end in sight. MetaLab, Campaign Monitor, Squarespace, and WooThemes have come together to match donations to the National Wildlife Federation (up to $35,000). These animals need our help, donate now.

British Petroleum’s well has been pouring thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for over a month, killing thousands of animals and obliterating any sea life in its path. To make matters worse, there’s no end in sight.


MetaLab, Campaign Monitor, Squarespace, and WooThemes have come together to match donations to the National Wildlife Federation (up to $35,000).


These animals need our help, donate now.

The MetaLab Scoot Gang

The MetaLab Scoot Gang

Swipely 

We are excited to share a project that we’ve been working on for the better part of a year. Swipely is a great new way to share your purchases, recommend places and products to you friends, and save money. To get started, you can link your account with your credit card or simply email your receipts from almost any merchant. You can choose which swipes you share, and also automate certain types of purchases. For instance, if you go to the same coffee shop every day, Swipely will automatically share it with your friends.

There’s nothing more satisfying than pulling back the red curtain on a project you’ve been working on for months, and I couldn’t be happier with how things have turned out. We’ve been working closely with Angus and his team since day one, and it feels incredible to finally share it with everyone.

Swipely is currently in invite-only beta, but if you enter your email we’ll be sending out invitations in the coming weeks. Sign Up Here

Read more on The L.A. Times, GigaOm, Reuters, TechCrunch, and Mashable.

Jun 9th
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Announcing Pixel Union: Premium Tumblr Themes

It’s no surprise that MetaLab loves Tumblr. In fact, everyone who works at MetaLab has an account.  It is with quite a bit of excitement that - following on the heels of the beautiful Tumblr themes that we released last month - we’ve just launched our new theme store. It’s called Pixel Union and we teamed up with our friends over at 45royale to create it. It’s the first Tumblr exclusive theme store that we’ve seen and we’re emphasizing quality above all else.

Regardless of whether you’re a Tumblr user, we’d love to hear of what you think of the new shop; we’ve worked with some incredible designers to expand our theme library and we’re excited to show them off!

Check out Pixel Union, and, if you’re interested in staying up to date, follow us on Twitter.

Jun 3rd
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The most distinctive element of the typeface is its enormous lower-case x-height. In theory this improves its legibilty, but only in the same way that dog poop’s creamy consistency in theory should make it more edible.
May 30th
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