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What do alternate versions of present and future user interface look like? What do the interfaces of your dreams — of great fiction you have read — conjure up? This is the world of modern motion picture user interface design.

This showreel highlights the work of San Francisco-based Mark Coleran, a once-print designer who now creates at the intersection of movies, interface design and motion graphics.

San Francisco-based designer and illustrator Brent Couchman has a portfolio packed with beautiful work, including a hearty collection of designs done for Fossil. Here I'd like to share some of his typography work, both experimental studies and samples done for Friends of Type. What I love most about his type pieces is the variety in style and the care in their execution.

With the advent of smartphones, personal gps and mass social-media integration, life-tracking habits and devices are becoming more and more common, if not the norm. Much like the Nike Fuelband or the Jawbone UP, the wrist-worn Basis is a device that tracks wellness through heart rate and activity level.

I would be kind of excited for the cable bill to come if I were roommates with San Francisco-based designer Nathan Godding. He creates these typography-based posters as a reminder for his fellow cable-watchers to contribute their share each month.