— Education | FontShop: Want to learn about type and typography? Start here. A wealth of great resources.
Art Created Using Shadows. Beautiful work.
Update: Kumi Yamashita is the artist behind this work.
IEBlog : An Early Look At IE9 for Developers - What’s Direct2D, you ask? Well, from the looks of it, the salvation of type on Windows. Truly remarkable improvements. Can’t wait for all Windows browsers to start supporting this API.
Via Thomas Phinney.
Correction, 3/1/2010: It’s not actually Direct2D that enables beautiful text on Windows. Rather, it’s a different, but related API new to Windows 7: DirectWrite. Direct2D provides hardware acceleration, but it’s DirectWrite that provides the improved text drawing system. My bad.
— Monotype Imaging: Type Designer Showcase: Adrian Frutiger : While we’re on the subject of type, this bit from a short bio on Adrian Frutiger caught my eye. It resonates with a segment from Helvetica in which they reference Swiss type design as focusing more on a letter’s counters and negative spaces rather than the letterform itself. This quote from Frutiger showcases how and why it appears that way—because he treats it like sculpture!
THE MAKING OF KANDAL — LetterCult : A short history of the development of a typeface. Most interesting are Simonson’s comments on traditional versus digital font production:
“I would never go back,” Simonson says. “You do get a certain sense of accomplishment mastering things like French curves and technical pens, but the process is just so unforgiving and inflexible and slow. Unless you are trying to give a typeface a handmade look, it’s just not worth it. Plus, with the efficiency of working digitally, you can do so much more than just draw the letters. You can work out the spacing at the same time, play ‘what if’ scenarios with different design ideas, see how a partially designed font looks set in a paragraph, things that would be impractical or impossible working with traditional tools.”
Reading this article gave me a newfound appreciation for the accomplishment of pre-digital type designers. It’s also an inspiration. We take so much for granted in today’s digital society that we often overlook (or forget) what drove us to use the computer in the first place. Our tools will never define us: only what we do with them will.
— Veer: Ideas: F is for Fail : A beautiful film made entirely of type. Must see.
Fellini.
Steak n’ Shake shuffle
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Polaroids by Andrei Tarkovsky taken in Italy and Russia between 1979 and 1984.
that awkward moment when you realise you might not be the coolest dude in the room
