Month: October 2008
Inside the Reading War Room
Inside the Reading War Room, a regional command bunker located on campus at the University of Reading. I really wanted to see the inside of it, but never had the chance.
Urban Golf
Urban Golf and a video demonstrating the sport. Bad golf and good beer, sounds like fun.
Jay Walker’s Library
Jay Walker’s Library, I’m just a tad jealous.
Monkeys work in Japanese restaurant
Raw Shark Texts
I recently chewed through a copy of The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. The first night, I didn’t want to put it down, but ended up succumbing to the need for sleep. It’s an odd sort of book that straddles multiple genres, with elements of sci-fi, romance and philosophy to name a few. To a large extent, it’s left up to the reader to determine what sort of book that they want to read. I don’t want to give away too much, but it’s kind of like tossing The Matrix, Memento and Jaws, into a blender and chugging it down.
The official website and alternate reality game offer up the sort of viral marketing which is normally reserved for movies and videogames. Can’t say that these campaigns do much for me, but it may serve to pique your interest. For those that have already read the book, there is a wiki and a forum, if you’ve still got questions.
On a side note, it it probably would’ve been a fun book to design. It’s not incredibly complex, but does offer a little bit more flair than you’d normally see in a trade paperback.
We Tell Stories
We Tell Stories from Penguin, features six classics retold as digital fiction. I particularly like Hard Times by Matt Mason and Nicholas Felton.
Writing struggles
The daily struggles of writing. I went through this last year.
Now and then
Eightface on the web circa 2001, you can also check it out on the Way Back Machine, although some images and stylesheets have been lost into the ether. Yahoo! still doesn’t index my site, jerks.
The lost art of type spec’ing
The lost art of type spec’ing. It can get even crazier when you look at the older designers like Tschichold, who could hand-draw type that looked like it was set by machine.