* today is NetNewsWire tabs cleaning day; i really appreciates the simplicity of this website. Graphically wise I feel also very close. Very Nice indeed.
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Field day for the Sundays
September 16, 2008
Categories: designing
Tags: typography
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Type Faces, an interview with type designer Kris Sowersby | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog
There was a point at design school when I realised that I loved drawing letterforms, so much so that I would prefer to make typefaces than become a graphic designer. I think it was when I was drawing/copying Bembo letter by letter, trying to understand how it was put together. I noticed that the arch of the ‘n’ subtly curves into into the right-hand stem—all the way down into the serif.August 06, 2008
Categories: typography
Tags: bembo, design, process, typography
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links for 2008-07-15
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work mainly on printed matter (mostly books) and on retail and custom typefaces, as well as on free interdisciplinary projects.
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work processes from content related idea into a conceptual visual language
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* a website under the form of a Google mashup mapping book projects (include a ruler / size issue)
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a nice website showcasing colourful projects – nice use of drag and drop…
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Mosso scales automatically and additional capacity kicks in as you need it. There’s no hardware to buy and you only pay for what you use.
July 14, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: berlin, book, color, design, editorial, graphic, hosting, map, munich, netherland, typography
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Fake Alphabet
This weekend, while diving amongst archives, I found an old piece of home made software I did a few years ago; it is called Fake Alphabet and produce typography: letters are using HTML missing picture as a matrix base. It is a typography made of its own absence.
July 06, 2008
Categories: typography
Tags: conceptual, pixel, typography
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YouTube – TXT – tchoutchou typeface specimen
June 26, 2008
Categories: designing, info hub, offline, typography
Tags: fontnest, speciment, typography, video
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Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard – Marcel Broodthaers
June 24, 2008
Categories: art, book
Tags: abstraction, rythm, structure, typography
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Fifty Designers Current Favourite Typefaces
Fifty Designers Current Favourite Typefaces
100% of the cover price goes to UNICEF’s Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Children’s Appeal in the wake of Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar on 2nd May 2008.
June 23, 2008
Categories: book, designing, typography
Tags: book, charity, designer, typography
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Futura Basics
June 13, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: elements, geometry, typography, vocabulary
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CAC BRETIGNY – Poster by Vier5
June 13, 2008
Categories: designing
Tags: geometry, poster, print, process, rules, typography
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Image:Apollo11Plaque.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Futura was used on the commemorative plaque left on Earth’s moon by Apollo 11 astronauts in July 1969
June 09, 2008
Categories: history, typography
Tags: presence, space, trace, typography
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links for 2008-06-08
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a portfolio made on the basis of a “see trough website” – using a simple iframe and a short list of links to give acces to some of the things we do.
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the given demonstration pages seem to bring web design in a complete new light: back to strong grid, layout and typography – i feel like there’s plenty of interesting things for page, information and hierarchy design to come with this framework.
June 08, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, css, design, electronest, framework, layout, see_trough, simple, typography, website
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links for 2008-06-04
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37signals: When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.
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a bog for a fascination for the Ampersand glyph, scribal abbreviation for and. Derived from the Latin word “et.”
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system wide use of javascript via OSA; replacing Applescript – sounds good. it would be nice to even plug jQuery on top of that
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multidimensionnal array sorting in one go. look at the script, post #4
June 04, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: ampersand, applescript, array, css, culture, design, development, graphic, graphicdesign, html, javascript, mac, methodology, multidimensionnal, paper, php, process, punctuation, sort, typography, webdesign
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links for 2008-05-29
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An interview of Christopher Burke; the discussion opens with a consideration of the work of Paul Renner, and especially his typeface Futura, then moves on to Christopher Burke’s own work as a type designer.
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the foundry retraced the original alternate characters of the Renner’s early sketches for the Futura.
May 29, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: api, design, dev, firebug, futura, history, javascript, log, typography
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links for 2008-05-01
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village is a label that distributes fonts by designers who already have and own shop – via Christian
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independent type label developing and distributing original typefaces
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unibody 8 is a pixel font by underware, and jan gerner, a german student made a arabic version out of it (without the knowledge of underware), and it was a success. via Christian
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While even Dr Badylak is not entirely sure how the powder works, it is believed that it kick-starts the body’s healing process. Made from dried pig’s bladder, it is packed with collagen, the protein that gives skin its strength and elasticity, and was
May 01, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: arabic, body, characters, font, fonts, foundry, graphicdesign, health, medicine, plants, powder, science, shop, swiss, tissues, typography
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links for 2008-04-10
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from the comment: The full admin app also scales blog post text by calculating “em” sizes based on the slider value.
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Beyond the “uniqueness” of individual works, he tried to discover their common structural properties after noticing that characters in great fiction evolved in a system of relationships otherwise common to the wider generality of novels.
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An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon’s days are numbered
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UNIX pipes (treated semantically as writing to temporary files) are quite similar to monads. Furthermore, at the level of UNIX programming, all i/o can be regarded monadic.
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That’s what you can find here: a wonderful repository of documents related to computer and culture at large
April 10, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, algorithms, animation, archive, art, ascii, book, books, character, code, culture, data, design, encoding, france, gallery, images, inerface, javascript, language, literature, mathematics, newyork, philosophy, pipe, punctuation, research, resource, shell, size, store, structure, text, theory, thumbnails, typography, uk, unicode, unix, utf8, writing, zoom
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links for 2008-04-04
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ICD (Internal Cardio Defibrillator) and email – the always on connection to the doctor for patient using an icd or a pacemaker
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‘How to Solve It’ – a résumé of the G. Polya’s method to solve problems
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magCulture features news, observations, and opinion about magazine and newspaper design. It is edited by Jeremy Leslie, author of the books ‘magCulture’ and ‘Issues’.
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The first pulsar – CP 1919 – was observed in July 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, they dubbed their discovery LGM-1, for “little green men” (a comical name for intelligent beings of extraterrestrial origin).
April 04, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: astronomy, blog, body, culture, editor, editorial_design, gtd, howto, icd, improvement, lifehacks, logic, magazine, math, medecine, publishing, reference, science, technology, typography, visual_culture, _solaar
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links for 2008-03-20
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R-Echos: how to create embroidery designs using images on your computer screen.
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R-Echos: Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design.
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R-Echos: for some time, most Walker websites have been without an important branding element: a favicon.
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R-Echos: It is a simple task to control small electrical signals which are carried by the wires attached to the printer port of IBM-compatible computers.
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R-Echos: 5 years ago, the concept of working from any location seemed alien to most employers, but in todays rapidly connected world, it’s more common to find cutting edge researchers working without the constraints of 9-5 and the office life
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R-Echos: a great visualization of what the candidates are talking about
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R-Echos: An information visualization conference, the See Conference, is being held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on April 19th
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R-Echos: image of the poster found on ManyStuff
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R-Echos: Issue Magazine, another new web-based publication looking at the changing world of publishing and design
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R-Echos Custom turntables: ”
Mike Disher makes custom acrylic turntables – About 5 ye
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R-Echos Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008, Sci-Fi Author & Space Visionary: ”
Renown science
March 20, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: analysis, anayltics, animation, architecture, archive, author, blog, blogging, bones, boxes, branding, candidates, chaumont, clothes, color, conference, container, custom, dead, design, details, display, diy, drawing, economy, embroidery, etd, fab, favico, flux, furniture, future, generative, graphicdesign, GUI, identity, installation, interraction, magazine, methodology, mobility, motion, museum, pipe, player, poster, printer, process, publishing, scienefiction, screen, sculpture, signage, stream, structure, tangible, technology, topic, touch, typography, us, visualisation, vynil, water, webdesign, website, writer, writing, zeitgeist
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links for 2008-03-16
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(tags: explosion photography)
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nice resource of Monospaced fonts for displaying code – I finally selected the Profont for my own use in TextWrangler, seems like an improved version Monaco.
March 16, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: activism, analysis, author, brain, censor, code, coding, color, comparison, consciousness, content, cup, design, drawing, explosion, font, frame, future, geometry, GUI, history, icon, interface, mapping, network, noodle, photography, production, resource, science, talk, ted, time, tools, tradition, typography, web2.0
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links for 2008-03-02
March 02, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: graphic, magazine, media, text, typography, web
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links for 2008-02-22
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a mini server; quite amazing stuff: my mac mini looks like big next to it
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this post is about font size and how to determine it; very interesting reading for anyone presenting information on screen.
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how to handle hanging ponctuation on the web, with explanation on the css side of things – with pierre we are developing set of javascript to handle those. it’s nice to see many effort pointing towards betterising typography on screen/web
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how to exclude your own visit from google analytics stats, a practical howto. interesting technique involving the use of a cookie, which is signaling who you are to the tracking system.
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Today, we had a meeting Duncan and I – and it’s always a pleasure to discuss about architecture, cycling, design, business, web things, and life in general – those guys are not only doing nice products for your bicycle needs: they *are* nice!
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film director of Dead man’s shoes & This is england, both out on Warp films.
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the website state: Warp Films is an independent film production company which aims to mirror the ethos of its partner music label Warp Records
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known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues
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Warp X is hoping to “retox” the world of British film by providing a one-stop-shop for creative film talent
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php and apache to mod rewrite – the beginning of a home made class – interesting reading
February 22, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: analytics, bicycle, bike, cinema, code, company, design, dev, director, electronic_presence, england, film, filter, font, frontyard, furniture, google, hardware, howto, linux, movie, movies, music, outdoor, pc, php, ponctuation, production, rack, storage, text, typography, uk, url_rewrite, video, web, webdesign
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