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“I’m just glad to be working, but I have to ask if there’s a smarter way to apply...”
– Aaron Draplin, via The Great Discontent.
January 2012
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November 2011
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Hitting Home
For months, I have been paralyzed. When I sit down to write, nothing comes out. When I start to design, I stare at a blank canvas. My ability to create things does not meet my own ridiculously high standards of quality, so I get stuck in endless loops of making decent things, throwing them away, and then starting over from scratch. I’ve been floating around in despair, in a creativity...
July 2011
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June 2011
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Firewater performing Isle of Dogs from their album...
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May 2011
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WatchTim Brown’s More Perfect Typography talk from the Build 2010 conference. Modular scales and the golden ratio as it relates to type on the web — this so appeals to the math nerd in me.
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April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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Iron And Wine: In The Studio, Stripped 'Clean' →
Not quite 10 years ago, as buzz was building around his nom de guerre Iron and Wine, Sam Beam and his family moved to the hill country outside Austin, Texas. Through the years, Beam has managed mostly to avoid Austin’s singer-songwriter scene while building a devoted worldwide base of fans enchanted by his sparse, intimate, acoustic-oriented pop.
Listened to this while eating a...
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Erik Spiekermann Putting back the face into... →
Typographer, graphic designer and businessman Erik Spiekermann has created timeless, influential and, yes, Meta-physical work over the past three decades. Next to founding MetaDesign and FontShop, the latter being the first ever digital distributor of fonts, and designing more instant classic typefaces than any other, he has been recognized as an outstanding expert internationally.
A cool...
January 2011
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WatchBeirut performing ‘Cliquot’ from ‘Flying Cup Club’.
A funeral dirge never sounded so pretty.
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WatchBeirut performing ‘Guyamas Sonora’ from ‘Flying Cup Club’.
Strings and brass. So damn good.
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“May your thoughts be deep and your wounds be shallow.”
– Ellen Lupton. [Found while thumbing through a copy of the book Thinking with Type.] 