Researchers have invented a mind-reading system that, for the first time in history, allows any person to type words and phrases letter by letter, just by thinking. It all occurs in real time, without moving a single muscle or uttering a single word. Read More >>
As it concerns identity design we all recognise Helvetica as a bastion of the rise of the practice of corporate identity in the 1960s, deployed with unrelenting passion by the likes of Massimo Vignelli and Unimark in the U.S. and Total Design in Europe. It helped shed decorative logos and present a unified front for corporations of all sizes in the most serious of manners. It was, in a way, a unifying technology of the era, establishing a specific standard for how logos should look. And that's my biggest issue with Helvetica: It's 1960s technology; 1960s aesthetics; 1960s principles. Read More >>
Featured comment by lsb143:
"To be honest, all I want is a font that makes my a's look like how i write them. the the one in the @ logo. that is just how I write them and it makes..." More »
Rock and roll unfortunately does not lend well to proper building code, what with all the shaking, rattling and so on. Instead, Type City (2012) by artist Hong Seon Jang constructs a miniature city-scape from blocks of movable type. [David B Smith Gallery via quipsologies via Collossal] Read More >>
Featured comment by d.j.r.burns:
"I had to google moveable type because I was like, some dude made a city scape from a blog? I didn't know it had a 3d engine.... The realised that its ..." More »
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