Abandoned London features Christmas day photographs of England’s largest city. Having walked around most of these places, I have to admit that it’s a little eerie seeing them with so few people.
My Year in Cities, 2008
Making it’s now annual appearance, here’s a roughly chronological list of the places that I visited during the past year.
- Toronto, ON, Canada*
- Mississauga, ON, Canada*
- Brockville, ON, Canada*
- Montreal, PQ, Canada*
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Burlington, ON, Canada*
- Waterdown, ON, Canada
- Belfast, Northern Ireland*
- Dublin, Ireland
- Glasgow, Scotland
One or more nights were spent in each of the cities listed. Places with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive nights. Not quite as many place as last year, but it’s a reasonable list overall.
1947 Printing Video
Film Addict
Film Addict will tell you what percent of the top 250 movies on IMDb that you’ve seen. My score is a healthy 50.4%.
How do you design?
How do you design? A (beta) pdf book from DDO which examines the design processes used by different people and organizations.
Heirarchy of Beards
Hierarchy of Beards poster (large), featuring old-timey bearded goodness.
If Gamers Ran the World
The Practice of Typography
The Practice of Typography: Modern Methods of Book Composition by Theodore Low de Vinne is available in its entirety online. Originally published in 1904, the book is a treatise on typesetting and the arrangement of pages in books.
Trash Type
Trash Type, Rob Banham explores the lettering found on the side of wheelie bins. It’s something that I’ve always noticed too, maybe I’m just weird.
From the Archive: Drudge Report Parody
In a recent post at Signal vs Noise, Jason Fried argued that the Drudge Report is on of the best designed sites on the internet. I’m inclined to agree, not because it’s an amazing layout or well-coded, but because it’s iconic. His post made me a remember a parody of the site that I worked on around the time of the 2004 presidential election.
For those that don’t know, I used to work for a humour newspaper in university, called Golden Words (whose website appears to be non-functional). The newspaper is widely read, with a circulation of about 9000 copies every Wednesday morning, and could be roughly equated to The Onion or the Harvard Lampoon.
After a turn at the helm as editor in my final year, I returned periodically to make sure things were sailing along smoothly. Around the time of the US elections in 2004, I stopped by to see if the new crew could use some help. I was tasked with creating something for the back page, which was typically full colour and devoted to some sort of graphical mayhem or illustrated comic.
The Drudge Report’s iconic layout, and room for small photos and one-liners provided the framework for a quick and dirty send-up of the site. If I remember correctly, Alanah and I spent about two or three hours producing this parody of the Drudge Report for the 2004 Presedential election. It appeared on the back page of the paper around Hallowe’en, hence the zombie references. The line about Bush supporting fiscal responsibility is oddly prescient.
