Google maps typography. Rhett Dashwood culled a series of satellite images from the state of Victoria that resemble letterforms.
Month: April 2009
Infographic history of beer
Comic Sans documentary
A short student documentary about Comic Sans that Marc mentioned after my previous post.
H&FJ on typesetting large prime numbers
Hoefler & Frere-Jones explore typesetting the world’s largest prime number. The largest prime number has more than twelve million digits, and concluded that even one specific kern pair would save hundreds of feet.
Spiekermann’s tips
WSJ on Comic Sans
A Wall Street Journal article on Comic Sans, its lovers and its haters. Vincent Connare also gets the WSJ portrait treatment.
@elliotjaystocks i say just get…
@elliotjaystocks i say just get on with it and do a live redesign, it’s your personal site, it will be ok. i think that’s what i need to do.
@processtype the problem is that…
@processtype the problem is that they came installed in Windows, and were the average joe’s goto font for the kiddie or foreign-script look
@Glinner running up against a…
@Glinner running up against a set with top pair isn’t fun though 😉
@Glinner yeah, you kind of…
@Glinner yeah, you kind of imploded at the end after playing a nice tight game.
Ordered three books, Neal Stephenson’s…
Ordered three books, Neal Stephenson’s Anathem and two processing.org books. Should be a good day later this week.
Saving newspapers with design
Can design save the newspaper?
Give power to designers. You can work for a small company, in a boring branch. You can have no budget, no people, but still can put your work to the highest possible level. Everyone can do it, you just need inspiration, vision and determination. And you need to remember, that to be good, is not enough.
A short, but inspiring TED presentation.