plan to stop by carrier park to pick up my packet for tomorrow’s 5k…
Facebook will replace email for a new generation. The chat is moving to a multimedia format. Gaming will move from devices directly to the internet. And Apple has a big future because of its strong mobile focus.
— Ram Shriram (via the guardian)
I think sometimes that being overly type-sensitive is like an allergy, my font nerdiness makes me have bad reactions to things that spoil otherwise pleasant moments. —
Michael Bierut, partner in Pentagram design group, NYC (via Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists by Alice Rawsthorn)
Read full article from the New York Times HERE.
(via icatchfoxes)
7knotwind: black friday thoughts…
for the record, i’m not one of the 13 million…
malty: So I made ‘Palin’ Shortbread Cookies
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. — Anne Lamott (via crookedtooth)
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
— Robert Frost (via sonhosincolor)
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — Buckminster Fuller (via 7knotwind)
check out this neat little typographic video, the road less traveled (via typography served)
(via theskyis)
outofhabit: love this idea for a business card - i might have to do something like this myself. see 16 more creative ideas here. [image via oh, hello friend]
quality paper action book (via)
Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem can teach other students who have never published a poem how to write a publishable poem. — “Show or Tell: Should creative writing be taught?” by Louis Menand in The New Yorker (via somethingchanged)
internet vices (via) (ht: liz)
the definition of haiku is more than 3-line poems with no more than 17 syllables… the key is the revelatory moment…
Haiku… are short, unrhymed, poems… that juxtapose two images to capture a moment of insight about the world or about oneself. (via poetry foundation)