We were so excited to contribute to this past Sunday’s New York Times magazine, an article by Clive Thompson that provides “a look inside the emerging science of social contagion.” Other designers / illustrators / artists who did an amazing job: Carin Goldberg, Julia Hasting, CatalogTree, Nomoco, Julia Hasting, and Shout. The cover typography was created by Chester Jenkins.

“Is Happiness Catching?” 9.13.09 Check out our interpretation here.

via the random AIM experiment, I received a vital link today.
http://community.livejournal.com/themissinghat

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Above: Kittens and Cats written by Michael Joseph with photographs by Hedda Walther. Published in 1936 by Whitman Publishing Company.

A few weeks ago my friend Peter gave me this old and fragile book he bought at a yard sale library sale in Ames, Iowa. Some of the pages have been ripped out, but there are 32 remaining black and white photographs of cats which are captioned with an imaginary inner-monologue.

“What was that noise?”
“This is my favorite corner.”

This is clearly the world’s first known LOLCat.