February 2010
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dirtychopsticks asked: do you do web design tutoring?
“Poetry expands in time and space, and as the reader sees pronounces each word,...”
– - jessica smith. read the full essay here, as a PDF.
this plays on the idea of white/negative space on a page being something tangible, and not ‘negative space’ at all. smith views it as a ‘scape’ for which words are placed topographically.
see also: the importance of...
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hunterpryor asked: Hi! Long time follower, first time asker. I have a two part question, if you don't mind.
1.) Do you have any blogs (Tumblr or otherwise) that you can't live without as a designer?
2.) Are they a secret?
1.) Do you have any blogs (Tumblr or otherwise) that you can't live without as a designer?
2.) Are they a secret?
the master container
nik: you need anything from the container store?
jared: CONTAINERS
jared: FOR OTHER CONTAINERS
jared: GET ME THE MASTER CONTAINORTRON
mini handwarmers
made these this weekend with some lovely merino 2ply:
will post the pattern soon, when i refine it a bit!
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brooches and rings
sunday morning, afternoon, evening.
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experimental poetry today →
read the full poem “manifest” by jessica smith. more stuff by her can be found here.
an-alexandria asked: You do fonts correct? I had the craziest idea to make my finace's mothers handwriting into font and my own mothers. How long would that take? Just theoretically.
how -not- to handle PR stuff →
this is from a member of the staff regarding a recent incident with subdomain ownership. it is not an official staff post. you can read all the drama by following the link, but the tone of this ‘response’ is what is really bothering me. it’s just plain arrogant and rude. (and honestly, i’m not sold)
i love tumblr’s platform. i love praising it to new clients and...
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stublag asked: If you could only eat one more sandwich in your lifetime, which one would it be?
bias and design
design requires that the designer be aware of all his/her biases. it also requires the ability to take them away and put them back as necessary.
if you don’t like something, you should always ask yourself why you don’t like it. if it’s a personal opinion, e.g. “i don’t really like yellows” or “i think heavy serif fonts are tacky” then be careful...
moderation asked: How do you come up with your ideas for your drawings?
“You don’t discontinue a system because of potential misuse, you build solutions...”
– - equalitopia
okay. everyone is spazzing out because LGBT was left off of a directory nomination form (that is probably still being ironed out). and this quote just kind of ruins the whole argument. the reasoning that people might abuse this (and trust me, they WILL abuse it) is perfectly valid....
brendn asked: You said "mac loses major points in previews for not letting you arrow through a folder correctly". In what context? Preview.app lets you do it just fine. If you mean QuickLook, try using the tab key instead. (For some reason tab/shift-tab have been the standard forward/back in lexicographical ordering, while arrows are standard for spatial navigation.
lauraj asked: i'm fascinated by the fact that you are both a mac & pc person. do you prefer one over the other to do certain tasks or what?
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text as machines
i’ve been reading (slowly) through cybertext: perspectives on ergodic literature by espen j. aarseth. not the lightest reading, but highly interesting if you have an obsession for both computers and words.
this was a particularly interesting bit:
“Instead of defining text as a chain of signifiers, as linguists and semioticians do, I use the word for a whole range of phenomena, from...
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Our world may be a giant hologram - New Scientist →
superdoofus-stratodrive:
filthyphil:
Brain hurts.
boy howdy some really interesting stuff in this article.
yeah, this was certainly the most intense thing i have read in a while. highly recommended.
i found the first half much harder to get through than the second, but lol’d that only a physicist would say “we think it’s at least a year too early to get excited.”
