Quipsologies
~ Vol. 28 ~
Quite a bevy of things in this edition of Quipsologies.
Calling all teenage boys!
The Jack Kirby Museum is online ... well, kind of. [Via Boing Boing]
First there was the Heavy Metal Umlaut; now joined by the Modish Macron.
Dorkbot-NYC's next event is Wednesday, September 7 at Postmasters Gallery in New York City. The self-generating tornado looks promising.
UK paper the Guardian has unveiled a redesign which features Paul Barnes' font, Berliner. Further details are here. [Via Boing Boing]
Street art from around the world gathering in one place:Streetsy [Via Gothamist]
Time for the style update: New iPod nano.
Beautiful photography, unsusual circumstances, a good chuckle, and a few surprises by Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida. [Via design*sponge]
Is there a difference between Graphic Design and Grafix Dezign? You bet there is, Rusty explains.
"Safe: Design Takes On Risk" an upcoming exhibition, curated by Paola Antonelli, at the MoMA, asks the thorny question "Could more have been done?". And those involved —
Rob Rogers, Gregg Pasquarelli, Sulan Kolatan, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Rakowitz, Masamichi Udagawa and Tobias Wong — answer other questions.
Vítor Quelhas of Porto, Portugal points us to his research project about dynamic typography: dinTypo.
Two items noticed on I.D. magazine's Sept./Oct. issue on newsstands now:
1. The ad for AIGA's National Conference in Boston reads, "AIGA offers a multi-dimensional and provocative conference to explore 'Design' with a capital D…." It is unfortunate that the capital D — or the BO for STON — didn't make it through prepress.
2. Steff Geissbuhler deems Speak Up author Gunnar Swanson intelligent. The rest of us, sneerers.
Comments
In regards to the comment made by
Steff Geissbuhler about us sneerers:
We ain't so bad compared to the folks
at Typophile -- they really get upset
at bad kerning and bad typography!
Posted by: Mr.Frankie L | September 12, 2005 09:51 AM
Btw, that bad prepress result for the AIGA conference...pretty damn bad.
Posted by: Mr.Frankie L | September 12, 2005 09:54 AM
Calling all teenage boys!
It should be "Calling all boys who were teenagers about 20-30 years ago."
Most comic book readers are over the age of 30 ...myself included. Kids nowadays are all about video games. If they are reading any comics it's manga related.
Posted by: Ron H | September 12, 2005 11:10 AM
Ron, don't be so rigid in your thinking.
Have you never felt the transformative power of reading?
Posted by: m. kingsley | September 12, 2005 12:17 PM
Mr Kingsley
Thanks for the Guardian links, I haven't been near a newsstand all day, but my wife is going to bring one back with the shopping (While I watch the new series of Spooks). It looks gorgeous on screen though.
Just one note: The Guardian type family by Barnes & Schwartz is Guardian Egyptian. Berliner is the new smaller size of the paper. Making serious papers smaller is all the rage these days in the UK.
Posted by: Jeff Gill | September 12, 2005 03:39 PM
jeff, i stand humbly corrected.
Posted by: m. kingsley | September 12, 2005 04:04 PM
At least we know Steff reads Speak Up.
To be Fare and Honest I don't remember Gunnar saying anything Favorable in reference to the New School Identity.
On the Condolences of the C&G Identity I commented followed by Felix.
The comments about silly, uninformed, and combative. Gotta be Michael Bierut. Big Bro being =-D and ='(
DM
Posted by: DesignMaven | September 12, 2005 09:49 PM
How about the cover of the new issue of STEP (Inside Design)?
There is a thermometer-type graph relating to the "Hot Web Sites" roundup inside and the mid-section of the graph is labeled "Fair to Midland"...how did that one get by? It should, of course, be labeled Fair to Middling!
I mean, am I missing a joke that I'm not hip enough to register or am I right?
Sheesh!
Posted by: Paul | September 13, 2005 12:08 AM
I sent an email to STEP about just that and never got a response... guess they might have passed it on to whomever was featured to design the cover. I thought it might have been a web joke, but I certainly don't get it.
It's interesting how people mishear things or reinterpret them. I believe someone on one these threads mentioned New Orleans being under marshall law, what they meant of course, was that NO was under martial law. English is a strange and quirky language with many, many influences that often muddle the sense of words up.
Posted by: Matthew Rodgers | September 13, 2005 02:31 AM
After acquiring an actual copy of the paper...
The Guardian redesign is absolutely lovely. There is enough variety in the single type family to keep it from getting boring, and it is a pleasure for the eyes to read. My only complaint is that there are a few big ampersands & quote marks floating around the paper that look like they were stolen from a big fat bodoni. They should be returned immediately.
Posted by: Jeff Gill | September 13, 2005 01:14 PM
2. Steff Geissbuhler deems Speak Up author Gunnar Swanson intelligent. The rest of us, sneerers.
Hey. The man is an AIGA medalist. Who am I to argue with his analysis?
Posted by: Gunnar Swanson | September 16, 2005 07:55 AM