Just a quickie that just showed up on BoingBoing and is sure to amuse the techies on my flist: Flickr set this way ..

...to flicker rapidly. Interior R wall = 1 projection of hundreds of "last pages" of books, compiled in animation program @ high speed to flicker rapidly. Viewer has the sense of BEING IN a text but reading sensibility is confounded by the fact of an unreadable text . Also calls to origins of typography w/r/t William Morris's projections of letter/character figures to trace/reduce/examine/perfect.

NOTES // SPINNINGS OFF; Arrighi Reviewed [brief: Ludovico degli Arrighi, called Vincentino, was a papal scribe -- he is of particular interest to me for two reasons; 1) he worked in both illuminated... but to the scribe from his own Vicenza, who incalligraphy had surpassed all other men of his age? TRANSLATE THE FOLLOWING: atti a comporsi insieme con venusta, e con destreza collegars

...since I missed yesterday. Today's peeve has to do with typography.  Breaking up a word is a bad idea and it diminishes readability.  Sometimes it is clever, but only when attempted by a qualified (uncannily gifted) typographer/graphic designer.  These two unfortunate book covers are a prime example of why syllabic separation within a word does not look good in type. While I like what they...

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...me out. We had a class on registration for next year today. eek! My program has 250 applicants (from Emily Carr and other schools) and only 108 are accepted.  Basically, FREAKING OUT! So I was looking at typography and stuff today, and I found a really good website. If you don't know of it yet, check it out. It's called Abduzeedo.com, and its all about design and photography and it has really good photoshop...

...gothic face used before and jives well with the campaign. It's a great font, and seems to translate well into the signs with little degradation to the characters. But then again, “Who, except designers, would judge a candidate by the typeface?” In the end, typography makes a real difference when it delivers words and ideas that are relevant to people. And for many, that seems to be the case here.

I thought I told you to leave me While I walked down to the beach Tell me how does it feel When your heart grows cold (grows cold, grows cold, grows cold) - Blue Monday