Re-reading Michael Rock’s “Mad Dutch Disease” piece (written in the Bush years) really hits differently in the era of neoliberalism’s demise. Koolhaas, Lockheed Martin, Crouwel vs JvT, defense spending…
Peiran Tan
The typographic unconscious: letter shapes as a socially symbolic act
there is a small faction of the San Francisco design scene that reveres extra slender books to a disturbing degree. i'm talking about w x h = 1 : 5 level stiffness
It was in 1975 that mayor Ford infamously said, “New York, drop dead!” – and precisely half a century later, the dead has come back alive!
one of the unintended consequences of the Left shouting technofeudalism all the time is that tech CEOs really took that to heart and dutifully started cosplaying as feudal lords
Gold Gotham Light in all caps set against a charcoal black background
I think this is it for FontExplorer. Fresh installed v7.0.1 on my new Mac, app runs perfectly fine, but will not recognize my valid license file and stays in 90-day trial mode – potentially because their activation servers are shut down. The app also can’t check for updates anymore (previously it would've prompted me to upgrade to v7.3), possibly due to the same reason.
(nvm I found a crack)
I wonder who did the rebrand for the Corrections Corporation of America, they’re using Akzidenz-Grotesk… wow
Buttons are things
Not pictures of things
Software by salesforce really is the metaphor of our times, huh
globalization is like a giant computer OS in which windows layer upon windows and their interlinked processes and subroutines are on and off simultaneously, so this incommensurable interdimensionality asks us to be not one of the programs, but the user, staring at the device screen and constantly tab-switching between focuses
@typeoff the back side of the Munich Olympics tickets even has G&D logo at the bottom!
@typeoff woah!!
TIL Christian Friedrich Giesecke (of S&G fame)’s second oldest son, Hermann Giesecke, founded the security printing company Giesecke&Devrient – responsible for printing the 1972 Munich Olympics tickets and still operating today
“Everything is about politics except politics. Politics is about aesthetics”
now, this isn’t to take the angry grandpa stance of “young people do this because their brains are all cooked”. Since global financialized capitalism is exactly “shit happens out of nowhere” I do wonder if this chaos-native gen Z will give us adequate representational tools to finally respond
One of the funniest thing I see from iOS26 release is suddenly UI designers are claiming software is art. Dude I don’t think you’re ready for the art criticism once you elevate it there
One thing I noticed with interaction design lately is, generally, UI is moving towards “stuff just happens out of nowhere” – maybe Gen Z is really accustomed to this from all the electron and FYP stuff they see all day
if you don’t like your fonts’ customers you don’t have to refuse their business. instead you can take their money to fund their opposition
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