January 2011
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March 2010
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February 2010
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Essay Proposal
Essay proposal
NB: for the sake of the essay – the word ‘society’ refers to mostly westernised societies.
I aim to produce an inquiry investigating the relationship between type’s tangibility and it’s value and/or significance in our society. This involves the role type plays in controlling, identifying, integrating into and communicating within a human domain.
On the one hand, its arguable...
'In other words'
can’t add much to what lauraj said.
typemeup:
lauraj:
amaaazing letterpress project by patrycja zywert about how textspeak is destroying language with its overuse.
“We want to suggest that it can be a good idea to stop LOL-ing and start articulating emotions in a more human way.”
yes.
A week's thoughts on communication
so i’ve been thinking about all things ‘communication’.
I’ve been a bit bad - i haven’t blogged the thoughts i’ve had over the last week or so, but i have written them down. there’s sort of snip-its and big thoughts too, so some may be lines, some may be paragraphs. some of the thoughts are in reference to some of the further reading. All are digitized...
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“Simon Manchipp, one of three creative directors and partners at London-based...”
– logodesignlove.com ‘logos are dead’
the virtual revolution →
watched a fascinating documentary tonight about the internet and how it has impacted society. a paradigm shift in information transfer that has rocked the world on all levels.
interesting insight on how a liberation for the people and a nightmare for corporate giants (eg original napster), has now become a distinct hierarchy of corporations. (google, facebook, amazon, ebay, etc) and an...
Avatar's na'vi language
What is the Na’vi language based on?
”Paul Frommer is a linguistics expert at USC, and we hired him to create a language,” James Cameron says. ”He riffed off the 30 or so character names, place names, and creature names that I had come up with. They had a little bit of a Polynesian/Maori influence because of some time I had spent in New Zealand and in other places...
communication poderings
our second lecture left me thinking about how information can and should be transferred most effectively.
is storytelling comparable to baking a cake? with the same ingredients being used every time, but two cakes never baked the same, when anecdotes are told, they are defined by the significant events within, however can and will be told in hundreds of different ways by different people telling...
January 2010
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Type in web. →
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The Open Source Type Movement →
typographical socialism. sharing your work makes your type stronger.
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