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10 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘design’
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 8 Sun 28 Aug 2011
The penultimate link dump. This selection comes from the first half of 2007, a year when I didn’t really blog at all. I regret that. Anyway, enjoy: Crappy Sound Forever! / David Byrne on how recording technology changed the way...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 6 Sun 24 Jul 2011
Forgot to post these after the last batch. That was four months ago. Oops. Anyway, some more linkage from 2006: Wayfaring / Web service for creating personalised maps (of walking routes, etc). Completely forgot about this! Tom Coates’ notes on...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 5 Thu 24 Mar 2011
In lieu of weeknotes (late again, I know), here’s the first of three – three! – batches of links from 2006. I saved a lot of stuff that year: Come home and make this place poor again / Written five...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 4 Tue 15 Feb 2011
The rest of 2005, condensed into hyperlink form: The Universal Packing List / Generates a custom packing list for any journey, based on a few simple inputs. Good work! A ridiculously large collection of fonts by Dieter Steffmann Baffling Cuteness...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 3 Wed 09 Feb 2011
Weirdly, 2005’s ratio of dead links was much higher than the previous two years. But with a bigger overall volume of links, I salvaged enough to make up two posts. Here’s the first: Baseball stadium tour via Google Maps /...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 1 Wed 26 Jan 2011
The ‘Blogfodder’ folder in my bookmarks is a bit of a catch-all location for any interesting links I find and might want to explore later in more detail. That was the intention, anyway — over the years it’s completely outgrown...
Oversight Mon 27 Jun 2005
From the regularly insightful Design Observer: The Daily Telegraph has won the prestigious UK Newspaper Design of the Year award for 2005, also known as “The Quark Award.” Quark, Inc. provider of QuarkXPress software, sponsors the award that singles out...
On Fire Sat 04 Jun 2005 | 4 Comments
So the class magazine that a small but dedicated group of us have been working very hard on over the last ten weeks has at last been sent to the printers. This week in particular has been markedly fraught, what...
Some Notes on Rock and Roll Graphic Design Wed 30 Mar 2005
There’s an interesting article by Tom Vanderbilt over at Design Observer on ‘the rise and fall of rock and roll graphic design’, highlighting what he perceives as the death of iconography in contemporary music. He asks three questions: Has heavy...
A Great Piece on Typography Thu 16 May 2002
A great piece on typography in the New York Sun (c/o Mat). When I get some free time I'll have a proper read of it, but right now I gotta get some studying done....
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