I brought my camera along for my daily constitutional and decided to take in some of the local signage. Gill Sans (aka “England’s Helvetica”) seems to be a popular typeface around Buffalo, which is fine but can be a bit tiresome. Kinda like a girl you had a fling with once and for some reason […]

There was a lively panel discussion at TypeCon 2008 on the issue of embedded fonts on the web [an overview can be found here]. A pretty controversial subject because there are 2 problems that need to be solved — the web designer’s desire to use typography, and the type designer’s desire to be paid for their work. […]

The main page has been updated — click around, break things, and please send me any errors you find.
There has been a “temporary” page up for the past week in a mad rush to have something done by TypeCon2008. It was functional and highlighted some of the skills I’m trying to showcase. But now that I’ve had another […]

Randy Pausch died today. He’s known more widely as the professor who gave the “Last Lecture”, but I highly recommend his “Time Management” talk — it really has changed the way I look at my own work and practical advice for how to get things done.
Though more importantly to me has been his work at Carnegie-Mellon with human-computer […]

(And Why We’re Not There Yet)
There’s a fascinating article in the New York Times today about Paul Otlet, who in 1934 sketched out plans for a network of computers that would allow people to search through a global archive of interlinked documents. Though his system at the time was just a mechanical, albeit very robust card […]