I’ve been playing with these very cool typefaces.
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Fun with type
Year: 2007
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a portfolio of photos of North Korea. via Coudal.
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‘In 1982 American photographer Bruce Osborn began what has become his lifelong work: the Oyako series. For the last 25 years he took pictures of one parent with one child in a white studio setting.’
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Site Redesign
As should be obvious, unless you’re reading this via the RSS feed, I’ve redesigned the site again. I was just a bit bored with the old look, basically. As usual, I haven’t tested it in Internet Explorer for Windows, so if anything looks obviously wrong, let me know.
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‘At the foot of this post there can be seen the name of Victory as it would appear in the capitals from Bowles’s Roman and italic print alphabets of 1775, and in the one that follows, capitals from an alphabet in Bickham’s Universal penman of 1733, et
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‘The Nymph and the Grot’ was the title of an article that I wrote in the journal Typographica. It explored the background to the appearance of geometrical, monoline sanserif lettering in Britain towards the end of the 18th century[…]
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‘The project documents every instance of the phrase “is the new” encountered from various sources in 2005. It is intended to map the iterations of a peculiarly common marketing and literary device.’ via Design Observer
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‘A beautifully hypnotic time-lapse video of the 2006 Reno Balloon Race.’
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‘Artist and illustrator Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933) was a Punch Magazine contributor from 1889 until his death, despite retiring as parliamentary caricaturist in 1912’
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“The scenario consisted of someone passing through a subway turnstile. At the moment that the subjects passed through the turnstile, unknown to them, I took their picture stationed at a distance of eleven feet.” via Coudal
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‘Smashing Telly is a hand edited collection of the best free, instantly available TV on the web. Not 30 second clips of a dog on a skateboard, or the millionth person to mime the Numa song, but full length programs.’
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the ‘B’ side is a great music blog anyway, but the story of producer Tom Dowd in this post is particularly interesting.
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upgrade trauma
I just upgraded my version of WordPress, and it seems to have screwed everything up.
Hopefully I’ll have it sorted out sooner rather than later, but bear with me.
EDIT: well, it’s getting a bit better, but after a sequence of painless upgrades, this one is doing my head in.