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a nice platform based on quality AND quantity.
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links for 2008-08-30
August 30, 2008
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London TLK TLK
August 29, 2008
We launched a new website: Tlk Tlk - this is a project in which we would like to share the events we are attending, to promote nice things we come across in real life where friends are organising, or just giving a hand, or sometimes events organised by complete stranger but we like what they do…
The idea is a continuous curration of things we are interrested in, a littl ebit like R-Echos but for cultural events.
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My favorite icon in 10.5
August 29, 2008
the blue screen of death as an icon
bsod.jpg JPEG Image, 450×360 pixel
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links for 2008-08-24
August 24, 2008-
tlktlk is in and around London - sometimes a bit further. tlktlk acts mainly as a calendar to gather friends to nice events. It helps you turn off your computer and meet real people. Try it and love it.
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links for 2008-08-20
August 20, 2008-
Trailers from Jean-Luc Godard Films; most are using typography (like in some of his films) it is very nice to see letters used on a medium which usually keep it for the credits & titles. Via vielip
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nice work, nice guy - got in touch via his website, via Manystuff
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a diverse group of artists were asked to conduct a Wikipedia search, and then to continue onto other articles through linked words, creating a "string" of ideas. Via Manystuff. made me thought of the wikigame for Manystuff #0
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Zyxt is listed as the last word in the online Oxford English Dictionary, an obsolete Kentish word that is the second singular indicative present form of the verb see. The next-to-last is zyxst, an obsolete word meaning 'sixth'. Several online dictionaries list the word zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil, as the last word in the letter Z. Via Daniel Charny
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Picnik provides a wide range of options to third-party developers who want to integrate the Picnik experience into their own websites. Found via Flickr - they are on twitter and twitted me trought he comment I made using #
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huge resource - to visit
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Firmin Didot & the egg shapes
August 19, 2008That’s a didot i’ve been working on for quite some times now on a very low intensity mode. It would be nice to get more time to be able to only work on it and push it as far as I can.
I plan a few journeys to the St Bride Library later this september in order to perfectly identify the font and maybe get some a few digital specimen/scan - the image i’m working from is not so high resolution and i miss some details. The shape of the lower case o is in the form of an egg - it is what attracted me at the very beginning - a kind of odd feeling about it. Now, it hapens I quite like it (read: a lot!), and when looking at a regular Didot, I find the regular one to be too perfectly close from a circle.
I’m actualy drawing some letters which didn’t exist in my sample - it is the case of the 0 (zero) which is designed as a kind of clin d’œil to the zero of Francois Rappo for LaPolice.
When I finish a more descent version of it, i will post an early release on Fontnest.
* Didot typeface’s name comes from the Didot family - Didot is the name of a family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers. Through its achievements and advancements in printing, publishing and typography, the family has lent its name to typographic measurements developed by François-Ambroise Didot and the Didot typeface developed by Firmin Didot. (wikipedia about Didot Family)
** This didone typeface I’m working on has been cut by Firmin Didot (1764–1836) a little while ago… here i’m not caring really about the dazzle effect and i’m trying to stay as close from the original shape cast in metal as possible. I think to dedicate this thin version (highest contrast) to only large letter size.
*** others Didot I like notably includes Didot Elder by Francois Rappo, Ambroise by Jean-Francois Porchez
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Typographic references for later
August 19, 2008Milton Glaser - Baby Teeth; Momus made some nice connection in reference to the work James Goggin did on his record cover in this article.
“Paul Klein - Designer of a commercial modern semi-stencil face in 1930” is the only information I could find. (from Luc Devroye’s Stencil Fonts Page)
This page has some other similar references.
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LIP
August 19, 2008
LIP logo reminded me the MIT Press logotype; we are speaking about it in R-Echos issue 1
I saw this logotype in Godard’s “Ici et ailleurs” (here and elsewhere). LIP factory was an experiment in the self management of a factory in the 70’s in France (read more about LIP factory).
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links for 2008-08-17
August 17, 2008-
Indxr is a self contained web application dedicated to both presenting and archiving mixed media formats through the browser. Mirroring FTP content and with the ability to add and edit content remotely, Indxr is ideal for project management, client access and portfolio showcase.
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Details in typography
August 15, 2008Details in typography
I just received my copy of the last book by Jost Hochuli - with a very kind message; Romuald: it’s lovely to know the people you’re buying books from.
