xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
30th January 2004

Button Maker

Quickly and easily make those little pixellated font buttons that you see linking XML files, web sites, etc…

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30th January 2004

The typographic contribution to language

“The typographic contribution to language: Towards a model of typographic genres and their underlying structures. Unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading, August 1987… This thesis presents a model which accounts for variations in typographic form in terms of four underlying sources of structure. The first three relate to the three parts of the writer-text-reader relationship: topic structure, representing the expressive intentions of the writer; artefact structure, resulting from the physical constraints of the medium; and access structure, anticipating the needs of the self-organized reader.” Thanks InfoDesign.

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30th January 2004

Isle of Printing: How We Work

“Since the letterpress process is unfamiliar to most people, the first step to completing your job is to understand the process of letterpress printing. We talk about what it can do best and what makes it unique. A quick tour of the studio and equipment as well as a look at some samples helps begin the brainstorming process for our clients. If you can’t make it to Nashville, the samples posted on this site should give you a good idea of our range of styles.” Thanks kottke.org.

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