Our favorite tweets of the week: June 2, 2014 — June 8, 2014

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out. To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot Watch how eerily Microsoft’s smart home of 1999 predicts our lives today http://bit​.ly/​1​i​1VXdo Out in the Open: The Little-Known Open Source OS That Rules the Internet of Things http://www.wired​.com/​2​0​1​4​/​0​6​/​c​o​n​tiki/ How Pentagram Rebranded The World’s Largest Book Publisher http://bit​.ly/​1​k​N4wIQ Times New Roman is the World’s Most Famous Typeface http://bit​.ly/​1​k​PPrpL /​@Gizmodo GitHub cofounder’s next startup is a non-profit that helps kids learn to code http://bit​.ly/​1​j​4Yh3r Painting with Code: How generative art reveals new possibilities in visual expression and design http://labs​.ideo​.com/​2​0​1​4​/​0​6​/​0​4​/​p​a​i​n​t​i​n​g​-​w​i​t​h​-​code/ Introducing a new platform for storytelling http://depot​.ly/​xEV3g Opinion via @CNN: Why we developed Google Glass http://depot​.ly/​xEUwe Instagram adds 10 new features, so anyone can be a photo geek http://depot​.ly/​xBFQ1 via @mashable Coca-Cola launches ​“2^nd Lives” to encourage the reuse of plastic http://depot​.ly/​xBFIK Adorable illustrations by Yeka Haski http://depot​.ly/​xBEFb via @CreativeBloq Are you prepared against a hack? http://depot​.ly/​xBxyO The 44 best #typography #apps — http://ow​.ly/​xyWzK via @BrushLovers Cool article from @smashingmag: Hands On With The Sigmund Freud Typeface: Making A Font For Your Shrink http://depot​.ly/​xyXa2 Nice news from @CreativeBloq: Pixar to release its rendering software for #free http://depot​.ly/​xyWnD The Hidden Benefits of Remote Research http://ow​.ly/​xzU59 40 maps that explain the internet http://depot​.ly/​xyVgG *Interesting read  Cool: Northern Shadow is a citybuilding first-person RPG http://depot​.ly/​xwnke Interesting: Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists http://depot​.ly/​xwn3r Classcraft makes the classroom a giant role-playing game http://depot​.ly/​xwmea via @venturebeat Want more? No problem! Keep track of all our tweets by following us @DesignerDepot