I am the Walrus.
The state of legal mp3…
The state of legal mp3 downloading blow my mind. I can’t find a song that I had a copy of nine years ago. Un-fucking-believable.
Future media standards
The BBC‘s future media standards and guidelines includes a section detailing the grid structure used in the current version of the website.
Working on a new eightface.com…
Working on a new eightface.com that may actually see the light of day.
Studio Handbook
Samuel Welo’s 1927 Studio Handbook is entirely hand lettered.
Dead Trend
Dead Trend. I’m amused, mostly because of all the emo kids I’ve been seeing around Belfast.
Handwritten Typographers
Handwritten Typographers features handwriting scans from a number of prominent typographers.
Back in Dublin for a…
Back in Dublin for a couple days. Just visited the national print museum, it’s off the beaten track but worth a visit.
Generation Kill
Killer Elite (ii, iii) is a three part article from Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright detailing his experiences as an embedded journalist with the marine first recon group. It served as basis for the book and current HBO miniseries Generation Kill, a sort of Band of Brothers for the new generation.
Lost in Space
Lost in Space, the story of the Judica-Cordiglia brothers, radio transmissions from space and lost Russian cosmonauts.
The Ampersand
I like that my macbook…
I like that my macbook can survive a two-foot fall to the floor. Sturdy and stable.