November 2009
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Nov 30th
Why Google Wave Sucks, And Why You Will Use It... →
If you’ve tried out Wave, I’m sure you’ll be able to find something in this article that you will agree with…
Nov 29th
RGBa Browser Support →
Damn you IE
Nov 27th
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Oh what a night
I feel the need to share my evening. I got home at 7. Cooked some tea. Needed a postal tube. 7:30. Staples shuts at 8. Drove to Merry Hill. Got postal tube. 7:50. Sneaked into Maplin for a AV sender I’ve been eyeing up. Got told that the remote function doesn’t work with cable. They weren’t happy I was in at the last minute. I wasn’t happy it didn’t do as it...
Nov 23rd
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The future of digital book publishing: #1
The most common way of thinking about digital books is to emulate physical books. Looking at other publishing formats I would conclude that this is the wrong way to think about it. iTunes for example, made it easy to buy one song from an album (the one you really like, maybe a guilty pleasure) and forget obiut the other 11 tracks you really can’t stand. What is books were published by...
Nov 22nd
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The future of digital book publishing: Intro
So what with meeting John D. Berry of Microsoft typography fame, I have been thinking over various elements of the topic. I’ll post these thoughts in a drip feed approach.
Nov 22nd
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Nov 19th
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Ligature, Loop & Stem →
This typographic goodness is “shut your face, that’s good(!)” design. The website is the sort of thing that makes me go, “I wish I’d done that”.
Nov 18th
“People like blue so do it blue… I don’t want to do it blue,...”
– Robin Dodd on marketing knee jerk reactions and the designer response.
Nov 18th
Nov 18th
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Typographic Horizons: Exhibition Preparations
STRESS! Today has been a day of pure, unadulterated stress. I have been setting up my exhibition for Typographic Horizons (as well as balancing some web-work). I’m really nervous of its reception. I really didn’t want to come across as some sort of pretentious idiot who thinks he’s amezzin at the infancy of his career. So instead of doing a typo-piece, I’ve done some...
Nov 17th
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Nov 16th
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“You have no idea how many arguments there were about you not turning up to your...”
– Found this out today. I was such a rebel.
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Exclude your IP from Google Analytics →
Makes sense. Nice trick.
Nov 5th
A Photo Credit Doesn’t Pay the Rent →
A good article about getting paid for your photography in publications. Terrible typography though.
Nov 5th
“Jobs rejected them all, including iMac.”
–  Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different
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