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Gathering audio on Type & Design for a show

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:37:32 -0400

Gathering audio on Type & Design for a show:

I’m looking for audio clips of thoughts, insights, stories, pet peeves, etc for Read Between the Leading. We want to try a show of short “design thoughts.”

If you’ve got something to share, there are a few ways you can get us your audio clip:
1) You can call us and leave a messsage: 646-402-5686 extension 20248
2) You can record it on your computer with Garageband, Audacity, some audio program and email it to readbetweentheleading@gmail.com
3) If you’ve got an iPhone, you can record a voice memo and email the memo to readbetweentheleading@gmail.com

If you’ve got anything type or design related you’d like to get off your chest, please get it to us, we’d love to hear it. If you have absolutely no way to record audio, email us some text and we can probably find a way to slip it in at the end of the show.

Remember you’ve only got one more day to buy Axel for...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:13:00 -0400

Remember you’ve only got one more day to buy Axel for $19.90 before the price goes up on July 1st.

This was a talk a given by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias...

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:20:06 -0400

This was a talk a given by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones at the What’s Next conference in 2007. I listened to it after work last night and it contains a lot of great information about their type work, including some commisioned type work that you may never have heard of or seen. If you’re a type fan, give it a listen.

This is where I’ll be working for the summer. I just...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:55:54 -0400

This is where I’ll be working for the summer. I just finsihed my first week with Michael Gericke’s team and it has been incredible so far. There might be a bit less posting on here for a little while but I’ll try to update with news and things I’m learning at Pentagram. And of course Read Between the Leading will continue through the summer.

Non-profit Type Foundry?

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:14:10 -0400

Non-profit Type Foundry?: Aaron and I announced the idea for a non-profit type foundry on the latest episode of Read Between the Leading just a few days ago. Since then I’ve been trying to gather some feedback, to try and see if there would be enough support for the idea of a type foundry that runs on donations and distributes it’s typeface for free. The idea would be the gather donations, commission typefaces from highly skilled and respected type designers, and then distribute those fonts on the web for free, so that they could be used in web design with methods like @font-face, SIFR, Cufon, etc… There have been a lot of recent developments in web typography and I think this idea could help push web type further in the right direction. If you’ve got the time, please click through and fill out the survey or at least give a quick answer via tumblr with your thoughts. Thanks.

I just posted episode 18 of Read Between the Leading: This week...

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:04:11 -0400

I just posted episode 18 of Read Between the Leading:

This week on the show we talk all about type on the web. We discuss recent developments like Typekit, Font Bureau’s Permission table, and Spiekermann’s new typeface Axel. We also talk a bit about our own idea for a non-profit type foundry, a foundry based on donations that commissions type designers to design web fonts we can release for free on the web.

We’d love to hear your feedback about our non-profit type foundry idea. We’d also love to hear any news (or any corrections) about some of this new technology we’re talking about. Feel free to leave us a comment here, email us at readbetweentheleading@gmail.com, or find us on twitter @rbtlshow.

Shownotes for Episode 18

Introducing Typekit

Font Bureau’s post about Permission tables

Erik Spiekermann introduces Axel

Typoberlin Blog on Axel

The League of Movable Type

Previewed above is that map I designed for the Delhi Metro...

Thu, 28 May 2009 13:31:00 -0400

Previewed above is that map I designed for the Delhi Metro system, another piece from the project I mentioned in the last post. Click through to see the PDF of the full system. You can find more images from the project on my portfolio site.

I just finished this project for an information design project....

Thu, 28 May 2009 13:29:05 -0400

I just finished this project for an information design project. The assignment was to design an identity system, maps, signage, brochures, booklets, etc for a transportation system of our choice. This booklet is for the Delhi Metro, which is set to be completed in 2010 (one phase of it atleast). You can find more images of it on my portfolio or on my flickr.

via FormFiftyFive: Meet the Kluge letterpress. An 8,000 pound,...

Mon, 25 May 2009 16:16:06 -0400

via FormFiftyFive:

Meet the Kluge letterpress. An 8,000 pound, cast iron, electric powered monstrosity of vacillating rods, giant spinning wheels and pneumatic hoses. Strangely hypnotic, isn’t it?

Field Notes from NYC Design Week 2009 (AKA Booze Within Reach)

Mon, 25 May 2009 15:31:44 -0400

Field Notes from NYC Design Week 2009 (AKA Booze Within Reach)

International Society for Human Rights: Mouse

Mon, 25 May 2009 09:58:04 -0400

International Society for Human Rights: Mouse

"Since leaving my home country of The Netherlands for the United States in 1996, I have always kept a..."

Sun, 24 May 2009 22:05:52 -0400

“Since leaving my home country of The Netherlands for the United States in 1996, I have always kept a Dutch ten-cent coin in my wallet. It is fondly dubbed a dubbeltje and is no longer a valid currency since the introduction of the Euro in 2002. Yet, for me, this coin brings luck, and to this day seems to open doors. For example, I was once at a job interview which was going south: in a last ditch effort I pulled out my coin, grabbed a CD from the table, and put the coin in the middle hole, where it fit exactly. The size of the hole was determined in The Netherlands, by the inventors of the CD at Philips in Eindhoven. And so my dubbeltje continues to live on in the world, as billions of holes in CD disks. I went on to explain that money has literally become air — perhaps the largest contribution Dutch design has made to our planet. And I got the job.”

- Adam Eeuwens from an article in Design Observer. I love little pieces of design trivia like this.

Sustainability at IDEO: A First Look Through the Lens

Sun, 24 May 2009 14:52:47 -0400

Sustainability at IDEO: A First Look Through the Lens

Aaron and I started a discussion on sustainable design this week...

Sat, 23 May 2009 12:32:00 -0400

Aaron and I started a discussion on sustainable design this week on Read Between the Leading. I say started, because I think it’s topic that designers are going to be talking about for a very long time, until sustainable design just becomes design. I wanted to use this episode as a jumping point, so if you’ve got thoughts on the topic, ideas for guests, or great examples of sustainable, email readbetweentheleading@gmail.com or click through and leave a comment.

The Clock Clock: A Clock Made of Clocks

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:18:39 -0400

The Clock Clock: A Clock Made of Clocks

One of my first contributions to Type On Image: The way to stop...

Sat, 16 May 2009 17:52:00 -0400

One of my first contributions to Type On Image:

The way to stop a man’s heart is through his stomach.

Image Source: Flickr

Type on Image

Sat, 16 May 2009 16:08:34 -0400

Type on Image: Type on Image is a tumblelog I started today with Aaron Heth and Greg Mihalko. It’s a place for us to experiment with typography and found imagery, as a way to give new meaning to images. I’m finding it to be a really fun outlet for some ideas I wouldn’t get to use in other projects.

Mos Def - Casa Bey. A great use of kinetic type in a music...

Fri, 15 May 2009 15:27:00 -0400

Mos Def - Casa Bey. A great use of kinetic type in a music video. And a nice use of Knockout.

Check out some great work by Mark Weaver. Scroll through his...

Tue, 12 May 2009 12:08:55 -0400

Check out some great work by Mark Weaver. Scroll through his flickr stream or check out his site. He makes me want to use Futura more often.

via electricgecko & danielwarnersmith

Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co. shares a story about design...

Sun, 10 May 2009 20:12:49 -0400

Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co. shares a story about design in America.