February 2011
MOMA adds more type to its collection →
Including:
FF Meta, Bell Centenial, Retina, and others. 23 total.
Full list here.
January 2011
Mayor Wants Meetings on the Clock - WSJ.com →
“The mayor has ordered the installation of count-up clocks in meeting rooms throughout City Hall to make staffers mindful of how much time they’re spending jawing with one another. The technology is super simple, you push a button at the start of the meeting, and the display shows all participants how much time has passed.”
Now if only university department, area, and faculty meetings would...
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WatchJested Telecommunications Tower and Hotel - Cold War Modern (by Victoria and Albert Museum)
WatchDieter Rams, designer - Cold War Modern (by Victoria and Albert Museum)
WatchKen Adam, designer - Cold War Modern (by Victoria and Albert Museum)
Interesting short video interview with film set designer Ken Adam, designer of Dr. Strangelove’s war room and other spy movie sets. He talks about the process of working with Kubrick and about the design.
As President Merkin Muffley said to General Buck Turgidson and the Russian Ambassador as they scuffled: “Gentleman, you...
Shit Photojournalists Like →
A new Tumblr blog.
Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme says Joseph Perla →
Maybe he’s right…
WatchThe coolest chocolate brand in the world?
CreateBaltimore 2011
Today I was at a conference held at the MICA Brown center called Create Baltimore. I’ve never been to one but, apparently, it was a kind of bar camp: a user generated conference. Except its goal (failed to some degree) was to connect techies with creative people as well as entrepreneurs.
“CreateBaltimore is a participant-created conference for artists, cultural workers, entrepreneurs, and...
Two spaces after a period: Why you should never,... →
Slate Magazine
New Gun Control Limits Are Improbable, Lawmakers... →
I give up. We need a new strategy. Here it is: Gun nuts, you win. But, if you want to keep things this way, elected officials and the arms industries will need to construct a MUCH better mental health detection system for troubled people. Usually, troubled young men. Your right to bear arms is impinging on our right to live! So it is your duty as Americans to prevent these gun massacres of...
Allen Murabayashi about having and running a... →
It’s a PowerPoint style presentation but he is mostly talking (which is good) and giving terrific advice. His model is a photo business but could be applied to design or other small or large businesses. Worth the time to listen.
Murabayashi had the good luck to grow up in Hawaii and go to Yale (Music) graduating into the start of the Web start up boom in the mid 1990s and was employee #4 at...
The best documentaries of 2010 →
Roger Ebert’s Journal
8 videos about DSLR video →
via ƒ stoppers
Sophos free Anti-Virus and other tools for Mac →
Viruses (including Trojan horses, worms, malware, etc.) are not an issue at all on the Mac. I’ve not used anit virus for decades and anti virus on OS9 and earlier did more damage than good. But, free is free and this is a reputable company.
Don’t change your identity if it is good. →
Article in Advertising Age
Any well trained and experienced graphic designer could have told them this but, it turns out, loyal customers hate it when a company logotype changes. However, loyal customers tend to only be loyal to companies that offer a superb product or service and, usually, those companies were also smart enough to commission (if not at first, eventually) a well design identity.
...
Bringhurst Tumblr Theme →
Heavily based on Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style, Bringhurst is the perfect Tumblr theme for those who love typography and want to honor their content
US $9.00
Great products that leave out tried & true...
In most cases, I like something, anything, because it works. When something does not work or has a flaw, I hate it! Like my TV only having one HDMI jack in and only one optical audio out jack.
It would have cost the company an extra 20 cents to put in stereo RCA audio out connectors! (Inexplicably, on the back, is a headphone audio out, another 20 cent add on.) But, they didn’t on this...
Excellent Michael Riley video interview →
“Creative director of Shine, Michael Riley has been designing main titles since 1991 - still the era of optical compositing and analogue animation techniques. Before joining Shine as creative director, Riley worked with Kyle Cooper at R/GA, and he was partner and creative director at Imaginary Forces. In 2010, Riley received his third Emmy nomination for Outstanding Main Title Design for ...
Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey →
Highly wealthy Fairfield and New Haven County suburbs in Connecticut surround lower income urban cities on the shoreline. That bit of dark green NY is Westchester County.
Making It (Healthcare Reform) Understandable blog →
“A course at the Rhode Island School of Design How can complex public policy such as this legislative milestone in national healthcare be communicated to the public so that citizens can make informed assessments and judgments? Bringing their diverse visual and conceptual skills, students will experiment with effective ways of translating a written legislative document into effective visual and...
Pentagram redesigned its web site →
More on Vivian Maier
The New York Times Lens blog, admitting they were slow to pick up on this story, has posted another nice summery about Maier along with a nice slide show of some of her work.
New Street Photography, 60 Years Old: Discovering the Work of Vivian Maier
Here’s my original post on Design Info about her work back in December of 10. Even I was slow to pick up on her. Design Observer and The Online...
“Business success today comes from converting imagination, empathy, and...”
– Marty Neumeier tweet.
@MARTYneumeier
wordmark.it →
Type in a word or phrase and this web site previews it in all the fonts installed on your computer. Handy.
Free FontExampler does the same thing too.
Legacy of Letters →
“The eight-day type tour of Italy, led by Paul Shaw and Alta Price, will explore the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna regions, home to some of the most exciting lettering in a country rich in extraordinary lettering. It will go from Parma to Aquileia with stops in Modena, Mantua, Verona, Rovereto, Padua and Venice. Among the sites to be visited will be San Marco and the Biblioteca Marciana in...
