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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Joy as online font issues finally resolved (not)
on 22 July 2009
Puh? Meh
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
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
Like dancing about architecture
on 3 April 2009
‘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
An interview with David Carson
on 18 June 2008
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
The Visual Thesaurus
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
Copyright for designers
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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