Karl-Peter Gottschalk: DesignDesign and all its aspects.While We Are Awaiting The Font Reserve Updater For Jaguar...- August 31, 2002 &8230; here is an article at the Apple website about the Chief Graphic Designer for the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and how he uses Font Reserve in his daily work.http://www.apple.com/creative/designprint/ronrick/ Downloading Inspiration.- August 31, 2002 I was amazed when I read this in Hillman Curtis&8217; new book MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer: &8220;Sometimes I brew up a double espresso, from extra strong beans that I get from the Soma Caf&233; whenever I am in San Francisco. I shoot it back and go to Apple.comquicktime and watch movie trailers. Sad, right Here&8217;s the really sad part&8230; sometimes I get choked up watching them. I can&8217;t help it. It&8217;s that combination of music and motion,...http://www.apple.com/trailers/ Nice Weblog On Info Architecture and More.- August 27, 2002 I came across this weblog&8212;xBlog: The visual thinking weblog&8212;courtesy of Zeldman. Well worth regular reading.http://xplane.com/xblog/ Font Reserve 3.1: Exactly What I Wanted To Hear.- August 24, 2002 The Diamondsoft website states that &8220;Font Reserve 3.1 adds auto-activation for Adobe InDesign 2.0, Illustrator 10, Quark XPress 5, as well as support for OpenType, Windows TrueType, double-byte, and dFont fonts. &160; &160; &160; In addition, the System Font Handler now provides a completely automated method for removing non-essential fonts from the many Mac OS X Font Folders.&8221; &160; &160; &160; Yes, yes, yes! OpenType support! Just what I wanted to hear! Ah luurrvvve OpenType...http://www.diamondsoft.com/ If I Needed A Car...- August 24, 2002 If I really needed a car, and I am not really a fan of cars (gimme a Segway!), then this is the car I would get. Of course, I like these too. I like small, zippy, fast, safe good-looking city cars. I had one once&8212;it was terrific. &160; &160; &160; The West Australian newspaper reports today that Mercedes-Benz Australia will begin importing the smart city-coupe and cabrio cars next autumn. The city-coupe will cost about AUD25,000, and the cabrio will be about AUD30,000. The smart...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100271/categories/design/2002/08/24.html#a615 Avanti: The Poor Man's Alessi.- August 24, 2002 There is a company in the Sydney suburb of Asquith named Sheldon &38; Hammond Pty Ltd that owns a trademark named Avanti. &160; &160; &160; Avanti is a line of stainless steel hollow wares made in China. Whether they are Australian-designed, or simply edited by Sheldon &38; Hammond from amongst pre-existing products I do not know. A search on the web has turned up nothing on the company or the trademark. I am not a fan of everything the firm puts out, but they do have some rather good...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100271/categories/design/2002/08/24.html#a613 W3C Core Stylesheets.- August 22, 2002 If you are dying to dip your toes into the waters of CSS, but are unsure of how to style your documents this way, try out the set of core CSS stylesheets that the W3C has provided for free. &160; &160; &160; Use the 8 samples provided as a beginning, and feel free to change the values as much as you like to see what happens. The stylesheets are pretty good&8212;they were written by CSS guru Todd Fahrner. But I have to take issue&8212;ri-shoo&8212;with one aspect of them. I detest web pages..http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/ Is This The Typography Book I Have Been Searching For- August 21, 2002 I LURVE type and great typography, and yet there have been almost no books on the subject that I could recommend without reservation. The best so far has been Robert Bringhurst&8217;s The Elements of Typographic Style, but it is far too hard to get, was last revised in 1997, and has minimal coverage of practical digital typographic issues. &160; &160; &160; Now, the book I have wanting all these years may be about to appear at last. The Complete Manual of Typography by James Felici has been.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100271/categories/design/2002/08/21.html#a598 More On My Boots.- August 18, 2002 My RM Williams boots are unique. I have never seen anything exactly like them, made by any other bootmaker or designed by any other designer. &160; &160; &160; There are boots that are similar, and that share some of the same characteristics. Chelsea boots have elastic sides, and were originally made for riding horses, although they have flatter heels and a more traditional shape. Tim Little in the New Kings Road, my former workmate at The Leagas Delaney Partnership, makes the best...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100271/categories/design/2002/08/18.html#a586 The Ultimate For Avoiding RSI- August 12, 2002 The Repetitive Stress page on the Wacom US website has some unsolicited letters from new Wacom users about how their new art tablets helped them in dealing with Repetitive Stress (RSI) and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). &160; &160; &160; I have used Wacom art tablets for years, ever since I decided I was not going to put up with the RSI I had rapidly developed after starting to use desktop computers.http://www.wacom.com/comfort/index.cfm |