18th
December
2006
“Acquired: at the Museum Bellerive in Zurich recently, the catalogue for Typotecture: Typography as Architectural Imagery, an exhibition at the Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, 2000. Great collection of posters, wide-ranging in provenance and subject matter but all concerning typography ‘being able to subject itself to gravity and acquire a physical presence, to expand into a space and come closer to architectural form’. Includes an essay by curator Andres Janser. Features work by Max Huber, Michael Bierut, Ivan Chermayeff, Mihaly Biro, Claude Luyet, Tomoko Miho, Mirko Ilic, and many others.”
posted in Typography | Permalink |
18th
December
2006
“This past summer I took a Letterpress class at the University of the Arts here in Philadelphia. I ended up enjoying it so much I decided to take it again (though this time as a 10 week course instead of 5). I felt so good to jump back into doing this again. And now that I had one class under my belt, it was much easier to experiment and play around with some of the projects.”
posted in Old media | Permalink |
18th
December
2006
“I asked Alan Cooper (over a rather echoing connection) why he is outraged by bad software, and how he developed the concept of ‘personas’. I was interested to hear the ‘father of Visual Basic’ say ‘What I need is a computer that doesn’t make me feel bad and a cellphone that doesn’t make me feel stupid’.” (Thanks infoDesign!)
posted in Personas/Scenarios | Permalink |
