For his new book, Al Gore wanted some tweaks to the typeface. “You see, Al is really involved with the project and we spend a lot of time working together in the publisher’s office. When he was reviewing the proofs, he had a comment about the typeface. Basically, he wants you to change the numeral one.” As a result, there is an updated version of Brioni now available.
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Gore’s choice
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January 24 2010, 6:15am | Comments »
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Time Tube
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Oskar Karlin reworked the infamous London Underground map using the time it takes to travel between stations rather than the distance.
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January 22 2010, 11:31am | Comments »
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The worst part about going from a typography/InDesign education back to teaching? The sheer ubiquity of Microsoft Word and Comic Sans.
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January 14 2010, 3:33pm | Comments »
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Electric photography
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January 13 2010, 11:23pm | Comments »
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Gotta love how England pretty much shuts down with snow. No plows, people out sweeping their walks. Gotta laugh as a Canadian.
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January 6 2010, 7:42am | Comments »
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Off to England, I'll be in the air for NYE.
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December 31 2009, 5:47pm | Comments »
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The last London darkrooms
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Last one out, please turn on the light is a survey of London’s remaining professional darkrooms, by Richard Nicholson. The photographs are well lit to reveal the beautiful machinery of an often gloomy place.
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December 28 2009, 1:11pm | Comments »
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Eiffel blueprints
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The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Apparently, they are reproductions from a book titled The 300 Meter Tower, written by Eiffel himself, and published by Lemercier in 1900. I wasn’t able to find an electronic copy of the book (it’s likely out of copyright), but I did come across another book about the tower published in 1889.
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December 27 2009, 1:41pm | Comments »
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Rithmomachy
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Rithmomachy is a complex, Early European, mathematical board game. The literal translation is “Battle of Numbers”. It’s similar to chess, but the capture of pieces depends on the numbers on each piece. Rhythmomachy Basics provides a few more details than the Wikipedia entry.
December 27 2009, 10:02am | Comments »