Font bots, robot illustrations made with type. ¶
Erik Spiekermann reminiscing about Letraset rub downs. We had them around the house when I was growing up. They're one of the main reasons for my fascination with typography. Apparently they weren't toys, but I could never resist playing with them. ¶
You Work For Them zine. The first issue, images created using samples from their stock collection. ¶
50 Ways to Help the Planet, small changes you can make to your routine that will reap dividends for the environment. ¶
The Rather Difficult Font Game. I only scored 30/34, I blame the wee morning hours. At least my education has proven useful for something. ¶
Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted by Thomas Edison in 1903. He also happened to document the moment on film, which he obviously titled Electrocuting an Elephant. ¶
Posted on April 9, 2008
There’s a new version of flickrRSS available for download now. In short, the interface has been updated for WordPress 2.5 and you can display set and favourite feeds.
A longer list of the changes that have been made. If you’re really interested, you can check out the exact changes via trac.
- Revamped interface for WordPress 2.5
- Support for sets and favourites (RSS limits to last 20 items)
- Added set_id to arguments list (in 8th position)
- Added place for code before and after images in the widget
- Changed $userid to $id_number to reflect ability to use group ids
- Naming consistency in source
- Settings panel now uses one button to save instead of two
- Brought back html readme, easier on the eyes
- Tested to make sure it works with video
I also released flickrRSS 3.5 for older versions of WordPress, it just adds support for sets and favourites. One caveat, it hasn’t been thoroughly tested. If you’re having any problems with either version drop a note in the forum.
FontStruct is a simple font creator from FontShop ¶
San Seriffe, typographic humour from The Guardian. I'd love to see the full spread at a higher resolution. ¶
Briar Press, a letterpress community. "Proudly introducing the bleeding-edge world of personalized desktop publishing circa 1820." ¶
Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing. This article just made me laugh. It almost makes me want to go out and pirate their books, just so they'll cease writing and stop polluting the world with stupid ideas. ¶
Forensic typography or how Jonathan Hoefler stopped the next hip-hop war. ¶
Muxtape, like mixtapes of yore, a good way to discover new music. Here’s mine, featuring a portion of one of my iTunes playlists. The current playlist:
- The National - 90-Mile Water Wall
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ain’t No Easy Way
- The Killers - When You Were Young
- MGMT - Time to Pretend
- Reverend and the Makers - Heavyweight Champion of the World
- Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Mstrkrft Remix)
- Tiga - Louder Than A Bomb
- Kanye West - Stronger
- Hot Chip - Over And Over
- Tokyo Police Club - Nature of the Experiment
- Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
- Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe
This would also be a good place to mention the mixes over at Yewknee, some of my favourites. Drop a comment if you’ve got one to listen to, I’m always up for discovering new music.
The National is an awesome band, they recently reached the top of my last.fm charts. Kudos to Mr. Hicks for turning me on to them. ¶
Choosing the right figures. Explaining when to use old style or lining figures and whether to use the tabular or proportional variety. ¶
Create your own font in 8 simple steps. And to think I watched my classmates spend a year making a single typeface, they must just be slow. ¶
Publisher's Bindings Online is a gallery of book bindings from 1815–1930, there are some real gems here. ¶
Fuck style is Eric Karjaluoto's essay examining the confusion between design and style. I spent some time trying to find a good pull-quote, but it was hard to separate any of the choice sentences without misconstruing the overall message. To some extent, the article is just another shot in the ongoing battle between function and form, but it's worth reading, especially if you're interested in sustainability rather the latest fad.
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Keming — the result of improper kerning. ¶
Interview with Paul Buckley, discussing book cover design and his creative process. ¶
A timeline of timelines, a history of the linear representation of time. ¶
Posted on February 12, 2008
For the first time in more than ten years, my email inbox is empty. It’s the beginning of an attempt to be more proactive with my correspondence. Zeroing out means that it’ll be a lot tougher for mail to slip through the cracks, something that I’ll admit has happened many times in the past.
I’ve been routing all of my accounts through Gmail for the last few years to combat spam, so messages can drop off the front page rather quickly (even when showing a hundred items at a time). From now on, any message that comes in will be responded to immediately, flagged for followup or deleted. This isn’t a complete solution, but it’s a decent starting point that will evolve over time. For more advanced techniques, check out Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero, a compilation of strategies for dealing with large quantities of email.
Paul Rand, both a tribute and an archive, attempting to bring everything together in one place. ¶
The world's oldest photo lab, it had been sealed up by the family for more than 150 years. ¶
