Tomorrow I am going to crack into this little beauty of a book, Just My Type by Simon Garfield. What a great Xmas present.
From what I have read on the inside cover it is a book detailing how fonts took over the world. Why did Barack Obama chose Gotham for his presidential campaign? how did great originators of type from Baskerville and Gill through to Zapf develop fonts?
It also covers the pivotal moments when fonts left Letraset catalogues and were loaded onto computers… and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. Looking forward to the chapter on Comic Sans then!
It looks a great read, I suggest you check it out.
I haven’t posted lately due to the birth of our beautiful daughter Marci. She was born on the 12th Jan weighing in at a healthy 7lb 1.5oz.
I normally reserve this blog just for all matters concerning and related to design, interaction, internet & web stuff in general. But this news was just too big not to post.
However if you have a keen eye you’ll notice that the cards are sat on our Vitsoe shelving cabinet. Apologies that’s really rubbish design link isn’t it!
I’m not going to comment on the content or intentions of Nike Better World but I like the mix of JS and HTML 5. Nice use of parallax scrolling and non intrusive navigation.
I did think that this would work really well on the iPad but it doesn’t? I thought that the design and nav would be perfectly suited to multi touch scrolling. Not sure if the iPad version of Safari isn’t handling the code well, or there is a different style sheet for mobile browsers (if the iPad Safari is classified as such?) I will have to investigate further, a real shame.
However I think we’re going to see a lot more if this style of publication/website design that is very image and layout led this year and beyond.
A nice social info-graphic from Digital Surgeons. An incredible amount of users are now using these social channels as illustrated by the Facebook world map below (generated by visualising friendships).
Have I just experienced the future of media and the internet?
Am I getting a bit over excited about something I know has been coming for years?
Is it really as good as I think it is or am I being blinded by how much I like ‘The Dude’?
I’m not sure, but what I do know is the whole reason why I invested in an iPad and why I am getting pretty excited about the next few years in digital is for things like PROJECT magazine.
Ok so before I go too far in proclaiming this is the future of everything I obviously understand that it’s not. However smart mobile handsets and tablet devices are really having an impact on how people like to experience, consume and interact with different types of media and content.
I guess what really gets me excited is not what’s happening right now but that the possibilities for this are infinite and mind blowing. When this becomes more personalised, relevant, tailored, and real time we will really see the persuasive power of digital media.
It is also the blend of static & motion graphics, video, editorial layout and interactive design that really interests me as a designer.
I’ll post more when I have spent a bit more time browsing and hopefully done some comparison tests. If anyone out there knows of any other similar ‘digital magazines’ then please let me know.
The point of some of the last posts on this site have been to showcase what people are doing with cutting edge technology, this post is to showcase the everlasting beauty of old school technology. Namely letterpress and the art of relief printing.
I have always loved the process and results generated by letterpress. I still have a couple of mini presses and drawers full of type at my mums house from when I experimented with it an university. Sometimes you just can’t beat getting your hands dirty and being surrounded by physical type and the smell of the inks.
Reverting to Type is an exhibition curated by Graham Bignell & Richard Ardagh, showcasing the work of 20 contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world.
It looks absolutely stunning, I shall be popping along I suggest you do the same if you’re in or around London over Christmas.
10th–24th Dec 2010 and 4th–22nd Jan 2011
Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet Street, London N1 6HD
Open daily 10AM–6PM
The Minority Report gesture browsing style gets a step closer!
Students at MIT have developed DepthJS which is a web browser extension that allows any web page to interact with the Microsoft Kinect via Javascript.
I really like this little project on stripping back logos just to simple circles to see if they can still be recognised. Interesting as the more simple the original logo the more recognisable it remains. A note for all brand and identity designers?!
Great Interactive bus shelters throughout San Francisco invite commuters to partake in four games based on Yahoo! mobile apps, as part of a neighborhood-on-neighborhood competition. The neighborhood that scores the most points at its shelter wins a block party with OK Go!.
Really nice campaign. People have really taken to gesture driven interfaces and devices (think iPhone, Android, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab etc) and mainstream acceptance means the possibilities for great interactive campaigns are almost limitless.
Have just seen this Kinect puppet prototype on the Creative Review blog. I wondered how quickly we’d see people from outside the gaming industry using this technology. Really nice application, this is going to open up a whole new world of possibilities.
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly people hack systems, release drivers and a raft of open source code and share all their brilliant hard work. Oh it’s all getting very exciting out there in digital world.
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