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Linotype writes: ‘Until recently, it was difficult for web developers to work with any fonts outside of the few common “web safe” selections.’ Until recently? continue

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Puh? Meh

Blogged on 1 July 2009

Ricoh, best known for the kind of office machines bought by people who still call things ‘office machines’, has launched a cloud archive service called quanp. continue

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Scroll out the barrel

Off topic on 20 April 2009

One of the things I’ve been pondering while relaunching this site is the practicality of reading long text – specifically, pieces that have been written primarily for print and reproduced online – in a web page. continue

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‘Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,’ as somebody said. I wonder what they’d have thought of writing books about computing. continue

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This month I decided to install WordPress. I wanted to update my blog from Blogger 1.0 to something that acknowledged the existence of any form of web standard other than ‘sod it, seems to be working’, and since Blogger 2.0 appeared to bear as much resemblance to Blogger 1.0 as Jordan does to her school photos, I thought I might as well switch to something more credible. continue

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It’s not every day you get to meet the world’s most famous graphic designer. Not even when it’s in his diary. continue

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The Visual Thesaurus

In print on 5 September 2003

What do you get if you cross a thesaurus with one of those fashionable floaty-clustery user interfaces? A pig’s breakfast, you speculate. But no, it’s the Visual Thesaurus. continue

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Copyright for designers

In print on 29 June 2001

Copyright is a concept that’s often referred to but rarely well understood. From the lowliest student to the biggest design agency, we’re all protected by it – and we all risk infringing it. continue

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