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.
Category: links
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.
The trouble with Paul Feig
The trouble with Paul Feig, a NYT Magazine article on loserdom with one of Hollywood’s go-to geeks.
Stewart and Colbert Interview
Chocolate letterpress
Chocolate letterpress set in SS Fago Normal. Reminds me of a Gerard Unger, when he described the difficulties associated with creating chocolate letters.
Printing a book in 1947
Printing a book in 1947. It’s pretty awesome to watch all of the machinery in action. The typesetting aspect is different these days (no more hot metal) but the books still need to be printed, trimmed and bound.
Long Duration Love Affair
Long Duration Love Affair highlights a number of beautiful abstract photos resulting from NASA‘s LDEF project.
A Layperson’s Guide to Design
On Emil Ruder
A Brief History of Emil Ruder, an introduction to one of the founders of the International Typographic Style and proponent of the grid.
Cover stories
Three authors and their cover designers, an essay from Stephen Heller.
Annie gets her shot
How videogames blind us with science
How videogames blind us with science or how kids are using the scientific method to learn a game’s world mechanics.