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Titans of Typography profile: Jean Francois Porchez

"Nothing is fully invented from scratch, for the simple reason that the first use of any typeface is to be read." A lovely interview with one of my favourite type designers.

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17 hours ago

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Facebook Releases a Photocentric App for Apple Devices

I know - another camera app... Really? Although I was skeptical at first, I've been using this for almost two months now and it's really great.

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yesterday

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Disruptions: DIY, a Site for Children, Is Instructive for Start-Ups

I came across DIY a couple of weeks ago and frankly, it's fabulous.

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2 days ago

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Brand New Conference: About the Conference Identity

An interesting experiment in geometry, pattern, and texture at the least. I'm still a bit on the fence as to whether I really think it works in an online context though.

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2 days ago

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Erik Marinovich - 2011 Person of the Year

A hearty congratulations to my friend Erik on what is a well-earned, and well-deserved award.

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2 days ago

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How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Sobering thoughts.

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10 days ago

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Ethan Marcotte - The 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012

Some well-earned recognition for my friend Ethan for all the work he's been doing to not just push the idea of a responsive, flexible web, but one that allows designers to plan for uncertainty.

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11 days ago

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Where Do I Begin

Thanks to James Todd for asking me to be involved in this little project among some great company such as Marian Bantjes, and my friends Tiffany, Elliot, Chris, and Jessica.

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14 days ago

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Maurice Sendak, Children's Author, Dies at 83 - NYTimes.com

"Milk in the batter, milk in the batter, we bake cake and nothing's the matter." Rest in peace Maurice.

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17 days ago

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Facebook's Ben Barry On How To Hack Your Job

"The skill I often see overlooked is design thinking. I say this half-joking but half serious: the most important piece of software a designer can know is TextEdit. Sitting down and getting thoughts in writing about what it is you're doing, who it's for, why you're doing it – once you have that clear understanding, it becomes much easier."

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20 days ago

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"Marketing is dead" says Saatchi & Saatchi CEO

"... To win today you need a culture and an environment where the unreasonable power of creativity thrives. Ideas are today’s currency not strategy. Martin Luther King did not say 'I have a vision statement' did he? He had a dream. You have to make sure you have dreams and your brand also needs a dream."

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20 days ago

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Stubbornella - Cross-Browser Debugging CSS

Sage advice every last bit of it. Apparently I'm out of the loop too because I've never seen the /9 IE8 hack before.

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22 days ago

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How text editing on the iPad should be

Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.

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22 days ago

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Adelle Sans - Type Together

I've swooned over Adelle for some time, so of course it's new Sans companion is equally gorgeous.

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25 days ago

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Kate Aronowitz, Facebook's Design Director, On Crafting A Design-Led Organization

Facebook looks for designers who are "builders." They're people, Aronowitz explains, who already have a product mindset. They're not people who only design icons or only produce wireframes. Instead, they tend to be people who've already built their own apps or digital services, end-to-end. They've been through the process of figuring out what resonates with customers and doubling-down on that, rather than just handling discrete parts of interfaces with little understanding of the bigger picture.

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25 days ago

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Carolyn Wood: One Two One Two Microphone Check

A snappy little interview with my good friend and Butter cohort, Carolyn Wood.

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25 days ago

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Sketch - The designer's toolbox

Coming with high praise from jon Hicks, this sounds like a promising contender for anyone working in the world of graphical UIs.

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25 days ago

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Google Drive

I'm curious to see how much this impacts Dropbox and how much they plan on charging for anything above the 5GB free starting plan.

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4 weeks ago

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Levon Helm Was Perfect

A fabulous look back at Levon Helm from Jack Hamilton in the Atlantic. Be sure to watch the fabulous performance of "Caravan" with Van Morrison from The Last Waltz.

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4 weeks ago

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TypeCon2012: Program Preview

Really proud to be included among the likes of Cyrus Highsmith, Akira Kobayashi, Thomas Phinney, Matthew Carter, John Downer, Indra Kupfreschmid, my pal Erik Vorhes, and so many others.

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5 weeks ago

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Behold, the 2001: A Space Odyssey LEGO sets that never existed

That someone has the dedication to do this, however ridiculous, is amazing. Bravo.

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6 weeks ago

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John Downer Speedballs

Ah-mazing. Watching him is something else.

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6 weeks ago

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Apple wants to make it easy for non-programmers to build iOS apps

Basically this sounds like Hypercard for iOS. Cool.

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6 weeks ago

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Kathleen Edwards: Tiny Desk Concert

So, so good.

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6 weeks ago

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Photoshop Actions to fix the banding of Photoshop gradients

Banding sucks. Although your files might get a touch bigger as a result, it's worth it.

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6 weeks ago

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FontGazer – Fonts.com Plug-in for Creative Suite

Preview fonts in InDesign. Similar to Extensis' Web Font plugin for Photoshop. But for InDesign. And unrelated to web fonts at this point.

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6 weeks ago

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Instagram + Facebook

Just another Monday.

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6 weeks ago

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Neue Haas Grotesk

The true digital Helvetica.

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7 weeks ago

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Startups, This Is How Design Works

A lovely and well curated explanation about how design really works (for startups but probably also suitable for your mom) by Wells Riley.

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7 weeks ago

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FontShop Plugin

Similar and yet very different from the Extension Web Fonts Plugin, it's good (and smart) to see another big type vendor go a step further to help designers make smarter choices about typography.

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7 weeks ago

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Typedia: Blog: Type News: Capital Sharp

While I'm a longtime fan of Mrs. Eaves, the subsequent Mr. Eaves Sans family has never quite done it for me. On the other hand, the new Mr. Eaves XL Sans Narrow and Modern Narrow families are wonderful. Cha-ching.

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7 weeks ago

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How To Typeset a Poster

4 simple rules. Saved for future reference.

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7 weeks ago

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Marilyn Marquis Letter - Sideshow Sign Co.

Quick, hide my wallet! I could easily blow through a lot of money here in a very short period of time.

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8 weeks ago

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Tory budget slashes $5.2-billion in spending, gives boomers a pass on OAS - The Globe and Mail

"Starting this fall, the Royal Canadian Mint will no longer put pennies in circulation, saving the government $11-million a year and bringing Canada in line with countries such as New Zealand and Australia."

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8 weeks ago

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Paper by FiftyThree for iPad

Beautiful and amazing if it works as well as it looks it in the video on Vimeo.

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8 weeks ago

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Type Connection

I really dislike that this is called a "typographic dating game" but the idea is good so I can let it slide.

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8 weeks ago

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Hipstamatic, Instagram To Unveil Photo-Sharing Partnership

Awesome. They should start working with the Camera+ folks next.

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9 weeks ago

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Thank Facebook's Design Team For Every Warm And Fuzzy Moment You've Ever Had On The Social Network

It's this sort of thinking that has me really excited about starting work next week.

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9 weeks ago

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Responsive Web Design: Missing the Point

"Your visitors don't give a shit if your site is responsive. They don't care if it's a separate mobile site. They don't care if it's just a plain ol' desktop site. They do give a shit if they can't get done what they need to get done. They do give a shit when your site takes 20 seconds to load. They do care when interactions are awkward and broken."

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9 weeks ago

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Frontage

A lovely new vintage sign painting style typeface from Juri Zaech. Cha-ching.

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9 weeks ago

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Designing in the Browser is Not the Answer

I'm pretty much on board with everything Andy says here. I still find that there's something horribly inefficient about designing in the browser. It doesn't work for me at least.

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9 weeks ago

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About HTML semantics and front-end architecture

Worth your time if you do any sort of front-end development work.

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10 weeks ago

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Editors' letter - Reformat

"Web design isn't about technology. Web design is graphic design, built on a interactive platform. It is graphic design with limitations, but mostly graphic design with endless possibilities." Well said.

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10 weeks ago

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Could You Build a Scale Lego Model of the Death Star?

Chump change.

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10 weeks ago

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A Graphic Guide to Facebook Portraits

Thankfully I think I fall into the "average well-rounded" category. At least I think that's good.

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10 weeks ago

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Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh

A fabulous new (and rare) interview with Jonny Ive.

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10 weeks ago

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Biodegradable, flexible transistors made from human protein

The future of an embedded iPhone. Embedded in your head that is.

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11 weeks ago

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Click the sheep to clone a group - The Minigroup Blog

Genius. And if you're not yet using Minigroup, you're missing out on something special.

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11 weeks ago

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A Retina Display Reckoning for Magazine Publishers – Stuntbox

Let's not forget that HTML is just text, so preserving content across platforms and major software releases becomes almost effortless.

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11 weeks ago

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Pinterest's Founding Designer Shares His Dead-Simple Design Philosophy

"Designing is figuring out the purpose of your product and how you orient everything else around it." Well said.

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11 weeks ago

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Gridset

An exciting development from Mark Boulton Design, so for once I'll actually trust the quality of what gets produced.

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12 weeks ago

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Camera Awesome

I don't really need a new camera app for the iPhone, but this looks pretty nice.

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12 weeks ago

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Responsive Navigation Patterns

A superb and honest look at several techniques for handling navigation in responsive web structures.

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february 2012

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Responsive Summit: Workflow

"...large agencies which are crippled by siloing of design and front-end development resources and their own immovable processes, are finding it very difficult to work with RWD. It's not because RWD is difficult, appropriate for a project or anything else. It's because their process can’t accommodate it." Bingo.

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february 2012

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Charley Harper: A Bird's Eye View

Thanks for sharing these great photos of the exhibit Chris. Love Charley's work.

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february 2012

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The Internet (Anti-) Intellectual - Pop Loser

Well said Tyler, well said.

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february 2012

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Flickr Is Getting a Major Makeover

Almost the best news of the day. Almost.

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february 2012

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Edwin Land - This Day In Tech

Happy 65th birthday to Edwin Land's eponymous Land Camera and the wonderful photographic revolution it started.

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february 2012

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Apple - Mac OS X - Messages Beta

This was inevitable, but no one saw a major release of OS X coming so soon on the footsteps of Lion. Looks good all around though.

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february 2012

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Modern Pictograms - The Design Office

Bye bye Zapf Dingbats.

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february 2012

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The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan / Agel / Fiore and the Book as Show Business

I finally scooped up a copy of this earlier today. Looks really great. Nice to see someone "get" the multiple meanings in the title of The Medium is the Massage too.

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february 2012

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WebKit Isn't Breaking the Web. You Are

I'd also argue that this could be aided by better documentation of what browsers support what features and where vendor prefixes are available. There's no "definitive" source that I've found to date.

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february 2012

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Structure First. Content Always.

As always, required reading from Mark Boulton.

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february 2012

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A selection of ampersands available on Typekit

Actually, this is probably more useful than you might think. Ladies.

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january 2012

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Nice Web Type - Breakpoints and range rules

Responsive design is about rules, not truths. When we design responsively, maybe it would help to think of elements in a composition as having range rules that coexist and do not necessarily align, rather than treating the continuum of experience between breakpoints as something to be hopped over.

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january 2012

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John Martz Illustration

Redesigned and responsive. Now with more hot dog.

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january 2012

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Impending

I could stare at the meteor logo all day. Beautifully executed.

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january 2012

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Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011

Happy to see Elena which will grace my site's reboot (working on it...) in that list. I would add Neil Summerour's Air to the list myself, for the breadth of the family of faces and also the sublime beauty of the typeface.

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january 2012

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New from Typekit: Browse by list

Great to see Typekit provide users with some curated starting points for choosing good typography. It builds nicely on the About Face series on their blog and adds another feature that sets them apart from their competition.

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january 2012

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Responsive Typography

The beginnings of a very useful reference for successfully working with type within the framework of responsive site designs.

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january 2012

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ARS Maquette WEB

Very excited to see a hand-hinted, screen-optimized version of my favourite type family from ARS Type.

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january 2012

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In Which I Fix My Girlfriend's Grandparents' WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero

Genius.