Amusing Ourselves to Death, a comic from Stuart McMillen, comparing the futures found in Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984. The comic is based on Neil Postman’s book of the same name. It essentially comes down to our society having more in common with Huxley’s vision than Orwell’s.
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I posted to eightface.com
Huxley vs Orwell
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August 8 2010, 4:35am | Comments »
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I posted to eightface.com
Madden history
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The story behind Madden NFL and how it became a video game dynasty (via marc). EA saved more than $35 million by reverse engineering the SEGA console, and signing a deal that guaranteed they wouldn’t give the technology to competitors. Hawkins assembled a team to reverse engineer the console — that is, figure out a way to make EA’s games run on Sega’s hardware without its technology or approval as a way to avoid licensing fees altogether. The game has evolved far beyond it’s modest roots, and can be somewhat daunting to play for the first time. I find the same thing when I try to sit down with one of the newer incarnations of the NHL series, compared to the console game. In the versions I played as a kid, you could pretty much just shoot, pass and check. I imagine most of the EA sports games are like that these days, drifting more towards simulation than arcade style play.
August 7 2010, 12:32pm | Comments »
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I posted to delicious.com
Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders
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August 5 2010, 1:52pm | Comments »
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I posted to twitter.com
My copy of @8faces arrived this morning http://flic.kr/p/8pHV29
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August 5 2010, 6:11am | Comments »
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I posted to eightface.com
8 Faces magazine
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My copy of Elliot Jay Stocks’ new magazine, 8 Faces, just arrived in the post this morning. I was lucky enough to snag a copy during the short period before it sold out. Given the nature of the online typography community, I had a feeling the limited print run would be snapped up in short order. There is still a pdf available for purchase if you’re interested. The magazine is devoted to typography, asking eight leading designers which typefaces they would use if they were limited to just eight for the rest of their lifetime. It features interviews with Erik Spiekermann, Jessica Hische, Ian Coyle, Jason Santa Maria, Jos Buivenga, Jon Tan and Bruce Willen & Nolen Strals. I’ve had the pdf sitting around for a couple weeks, but have avoided reading it, because I wanted to see the magazine in print first. Can’t say that I’m disappointed for waiting, there’s been a lot of care and effort put into it. Elliot has written an article about his experiences with getting it published. The magazine is gorgeous and I’m looking forward to sitting down and reading the entire thing.
August 5 2010, 4:15am | Comments »
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I posted to flickr.com
8 Faces in the wild
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Photo of the first issue of Elliot Jay Stocks' typography magazine 8 Faces to accompany this post.
August 5 2010, 3:45am | Comments »
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I posted to delicious.com
CSS3 Generator
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August 4 2010, 4:39pm | Comments »
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I posted to eightface.com
Typefaces of the decade
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Paul Shaw picks the ten typefaces of the decade. It is not a list of my favorite typefaces, nor is it a list of the most popular typefaces. Instead, it is a list of typefaces that have been “important” for one reason or another. However, I am not going to provide my reasons. Instead, I am going to let the readers of this blog see if they can figure out the contribution that each of these ten faces makes. This list is not definitive. It is only a suggestion. There are several other typefaces I reluctantly jettisoned because I wanted to keep the list small. As with any such list, there are bound to be those who agree and disagree with the typefaces. He provides the rationale for each of his choices in one of the comments. I am not a big fan of a number of faces on my list–some I detest and others I just find ugly–which is why it is not a list about popularity or about aesthetics but about something more elusive. There is a bias in my list toward typefaces that are functional, experimental or somehow the “first”.
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August 4 2010, 11:55am | Comments »
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I posted to twitter.com
Splashed some coffee on my bluetooth keyboard last night, was hoping it might still be functional today. Doesn't appear so. Boo.
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August 4 2010, 8:02am | Comments »