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I've given up on Vienna (nice interface, but its habit of skipping posts for no apparent reason drove me to distraction). Now I'm trying NewsFire. Mostly because I absolutely hate this:
No, I don't want to look for new stuff to add. And, no, I don't want an 'artist' theme. Thank you very much.
You're a search engine. Get over it.
The LEGO Bluetooth Printer (warning: eats bandwidth).
Via 15 Wonders of the LEGO World.
Remember the six golden rules - the things that every aspiring designer ought to know before they start setting type? Well, our good friend Loïc has. He's been invited to contribute to the 20th International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival at Chaumont next month. And, as one of his exhibits, he's chosen to turn my six golden rules into a poster, or posters, à la El Lissitzky:
Looks interesting, don't you think? And Loïc tells me that he's also going to tackle Ben's I'm a designer, use me better talk.
See, that's the nice thing about blogging: you put something out there and you have no idea whether it's going to be completely ignored, or whether somebody else will pick it and run with it.
A guest post from Jeanne Boden.
A watch with the Chinese characters 'old chaos' '老乱' ('chaos' as an opposite meaning of the ideal Confucian 'harmonious' society), a fashionable gadget for young Chinese, or Mao Zedong's head on German condom advertising. This and many more funny things about advertising in China on 'little red book'. Stuff for designers I would think!
Here's something to cheer you up: a great collection of colophons, from A thru G and H thru Z.
(Big thanks to Eric Baker for the tip-off)
I told you about Christopher West's T-shirt project last week: so I thought I ought to put my money where my mouth is. And that's how I came to win this week's auction (for a mere $6.50) and now Christopher's parading around Amsterdam wearing my favicon. I hope it looks better in the flesh.
If you happen to see him, take a picture for me, won't you?
Yeah, right.
There's a grand collection of movies about typography over on TypeCulture. I haven't yet watched all of them, but the Erik Spiekermann piece is well worth seven minutes of your time (if you can handle the Tina Weymouth intro music, that is).
And the Monotype Keyboard & Caster film should be a real eye-opener to those of you who have only ever set type on a computer screen.
(A big thanks to Martin for the tip-off.)
Christopher West is in his final year of study (graphic design, of course) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Each week since October last year he's been selling the space on his white T-shirt to the highest bidder on ebay. He's carrying on until 5 July (the last day of his end-of-study show), and he'll then have a live auction to sell the whole collection of T-shirts (one by one) to the highest bidders. He's been selling weeks for as little as 10 Cents; and the most expensive was a piddling $20.
Go on. Spread your name around Amsterdam. You can afford that, can't you?
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