October 2010
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Communicating with type →
Excellent slide presentation on how audience, mood, and aesthetic influence the selection of fonts and pairing of typefaces. By Matthew Smith of Squared Eye.
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Tim Flach Photography →
Amazing photographs of dogs, horses, bats, elephants…you name it. It’s absolutely stunning.
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“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
– Herman Melville cf. [T]rap streets, or deliberate cartographic errors introduced into a map so as to catch acts of copyright infringement by rival firms. In other words, if a competitor’s map includes your “trap street” — a geographic feature that you’ve simply invented — then you (and your lawyers)...
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“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
– Roald Dahl (via thewrinkle)
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25 free pictogram icon sets →
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“Many books are screwy, a great many are dull, some are irredeemable, and there...”
– Luc Sante discusses his book collection.
[via The Awl]
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A glossary of typographic terms →
From Adobe.
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