It’s been said by more than one source that, “Helvetica is the most perfect font” and I have to admit that I kind of agree with them. All of them. Why? I’m not sure… it just works.
A friend of mine, fashion designer @signsealzip, was asking me the other day, “What’s the big deal about Helvetica… everyone’s saying it’s the perfect font.” My response was, “oh, but it is!”
What are your thoughts? Do you think Helvetica is the most perfect font? Is there something better? Gotham is making a big splash these days and has been hailed as “the next helvetica.” I’ll feature that next week. But really… why all the type-hype?
Those of you that know me know I went to New Zealand last September. It was a trip that changed my life.
I had wanted to go for so long that when the opportunity came along, I took it. I can’t wait to go back again and maybe stay a little longer :) When you see this video you’ll understand why I fell in love and left part of my heart there.
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I retract my former statement of not being turned on by the upcoming iPad. I am. Very much actually.
I’ve been seeing some stellar stuff on the web these days about how it’ll engage readers even more and bring film and print together into one sexy (and I mean sexy) execution. Take the example below for… example. (#awkward)
The latest and most thoughtful mock-up I’ve seen is of an iPad magazine supercharged with video. California-based director Jesse Rosten has been ruminating about how the iPad promises literally to reorient our preconceptions about video by adding the vertical dimension to a format that has been dominated by wide-screen conventions from movie and TV. The iPad allows the traditional portrait orientation of books and magazines to merge with the landscape aspect ratios of video. At his site, Rosten muses, “With the iPad, there’s really no longer a landscape limitation for video. Maybe you want your video to appear full screen in portrait mode? Maybe you need a long, tall video banner ad on the side of a digital magazine page? I think we’re going to start seeing a lot more vertically shot video soon.”
As a demonstration of how video and magazine aesthetics can merge more effectively in portrait mode, Rosten created a compelling mock-up of a Sunset magazine cover energized by video.
There is no shortage of iPad magazine demos out in the wild now. The latest and most striking we have seen comes from digital magazine publisher Zinio and its digital-only women’s title VIVMag. (See below) This. Is. Incredible.
This is the most impressive short film I’ve seen in a long time. Everything from concept to execution; story line to soundtrack; lighting to underlying message. Watch it and see for yourself why this film was winner of the 2009 Doorpost Film Project.
Played mostly at restaurants while waiting for the food to come, The Question Game is a little something my friends and I play from time to time. The concept is simple: ask a general question and have it answered by your friends as well as yourself in order 1) break the ice and/or 2) get to know everyone better.
Anyone can ask a question, but everyone has to answer it. They can be as general or as detailed as you’d like.
If you’re playing on Twitter, just be sure to use the hash tag, #QuestionGame so we can all see everyone’s Q&As in one place.
That’s it! Pretty simply, huh? Now get to it and ask away!
In 2008, Twitter really started to hit the mainstream and bloggers began adding widgets to their sidebars to display their latest tweets.
In 2009, Twitter will become much more tightly integrated with the rest of the blog in a variety of ways – watch out for tweetbacks and tweetstats to make their debut, and tweet comments to TwitterRolls to start appearing on blogs. Here are 10 ways Twitter will impact blogs this year.
