Bembo's Zoo is a children's book featuring animals from A to Z, illustrated using letterforms and punctuation from Bembo ¶
A recreation of the Shining set to promote an upcoming season of Kubrick films for Channel 4. It borders on creepy. ¶
David Carson's desktop. Man, I thought mine got cluttered at times. ¶
Da mystery of chessboxin. RZA, Wu-Tang producer extraordinaire, and chess fanatic has started up a chess site. ¶
Type is image, a video with Paula Scher (from Marc) ¶
Concern in Middle England has been mounting in recent days over the threat to the nation's youth posed by emo. I can't stop laughing. It probably has something to do with the mental image of a white-haired newscaster with a British accent uttering those words with the greatest severity. ¶
Flood shuts Canada's national archives. The article states that the building has had 116 environmental incidents since 1988. Could just be me, but it seems like a stupid place to be storing important documents. ¶
Font bots, robot illustrations made with type. ¶
Erik Spiekermann reminiscing about Letraset rub downs. We had them around the house when I was growing up. They're one of the main reasons for my fascination with typography. Apparently they weren't toys, but I could never resist playing with them. ¶
You Work For Them zine. The first issue, images created using samples from their stock collection. ¶
50 Ways to Help the Planet, small changes you can make to your routine that will reap dividends for the environment. ¶
The Rather Difficult Font Game. I only scored 30/34, I blame the wee morning hours. At least my education has proven useful for something. ¶
Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted by Thomas Edison in 1903. He also happened to document the moment on film, which he obviously titled Electrocuting an Elephant. ¶
Posted on April 9, 2008
There’s a new version of flickrRSS available for download now. In short, the interface has been updated for WordPress 2.5 and you can display set and favourite feeds.
A longer list of the changes that have been made. If you’re really interested, you can check out the exact changes via trac.
- Revamped interface for WordPress 2.5
- Support for sets and favourites (RSS limits to last 20 items)
- Added set_id to arguments list (in 8th position)
- Added place for code before and after images in the widget
- Changed $userid to $id_number to reflect ability to use group ids
- Naming consistency in source
- Settings panel now uses one button to save instead of two
- Brought back html readme, easier on the eyes
- Tested to make sure it works with video
I also released flickrRSS 3.5 for older versions of WordPress, it just adds support for sets and favourites. One caveat, it hasn’t been thoroughly tested. If you’re having any problems with either version drop a note in the forum.
FontStruct is a simple font creator from FontShop ¶
San Seriffe, typographic humour from The Guardian. I'd love to see the full spread at a higher resolution. ¶
Briar Press, a letterpress community. "Proudly introducing the bleeding-edge world of personalized desktop publishing circa 1820." ¶
Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing. This article just made me laugh. It almost makes me want to go out and pirate their books, just so they'll cease writing and stop polluting the world with stupid ideas. ¶
Forensic typography or how Jonathan Hoefler stopped the next hip-hop war. ¶
Muxtape, like mixtapes of yore, a good way to discover new music. Here’s mine, featuring a portion of one of my iTunes playlists. The current playlist:
- The National - 90-Mile Water Wall
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ain’t No Easy Way
- The Killers - When You Were Young
- MGMT - Time to Pretend
- Reverend and the Makers - Heavyweight Champion of the World
- Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Mstrkrft Remix)
- Tiga - Louder Than A Bomb
- Kanye West - Stronger
- Hot Chip - Over And Over
- Tokyo Police Club - Nature of the Experiment
- Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
- Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe
This would also be a good place to mention the mixes over at Yewknee, some of my favourites. Drop a comment if you’ve got one to listen to, I’m always up for discovering new music.
The National is an awesome band, they recently reached the top of my last.fm charts. Kudos to Mr. Hicks for turning me on to them. ¶
Choosing the right figures. Explaining when to use old style or lining figures and whether to use the tabular or proportional variety. ¶
Create your own font in 8 simple steps. And to think I watched my classmates spend a year making a single typeface, they must just be slow. ¶
