Lift blog

links for 2005-02-23

• Public library lends out book-filled iPod Shuffles - Engadget - www.engadget.com
  (categories: Apple iPod audio books library)

links for 2005-02-22

• AlienBBC
  A BBC Radio Stream Plugin
  (categories: BBC radio audio stream)
• Boxes and Arrows: Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design
  (categories: colour interface design)
• typography department
  (categories: type education design printing cooldudes)

links for 2005-02-21

• Ruby on Rails
  (categories: language software frameworks application development)
• adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications
  (categories: code xml javascript Google)
• BitFontEditor
  (categories: application type typeface bitmap)
• 2005 FontFont Calendar
  (categories: type typography designer)

links for 2005-02-18

• Screenfont.ca: All about fonts for captioning and subtitling (2005.02.16)
  (categories: type typography screen captions)

Outage expected, normal service to resume shortly...

Clare and I are shortly expecting the release of baby Carey, version 1.0. Actually at any moment. Normal service will resume shortly! In the meantime, some current thoughts:

I am currently teaching the MA Information Design students at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication. They are already taking the brief I set them into areas I had not thought of.

Quark have announced Quark 7. OpenType support amongst other things. It is still InDesign for me though.

The lack of 'proper' posts

OK, what is a proper post anyway? Recently the Lift blog has turned into just a list of my del.icio.us bookmarks. Partly on purpose as the ease of posting to del.icio.us means I use it more than I thought I would (click bookmarklet, type tags, click submit, done). I 'jot down' rather than writing continuous text. Partly because life has been hectic recently with work and home, and I like to keep the blog ticking over, until I am next ready to post something 'proper'. What is a 'proper' post anyway...

links for 2005-02-14

• Aaron Marcus is keynote speaker at ATypI Helsinki
  (categories: ATypI conferences)

links for 2005-02-11

• Amazon.co.uk: Books: After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC
  By Steve Mithen who taught me for archaeology while at University
  (categories: books archaeology readinguniversity)
• House Industries to Digitize and Sell Photo-Lettering Fonts || Typographica
  (categories: type typography)

skeuomorphs

Matt Patterson has posted a really interesting article on his website entitled Web design tools are skeuomorphs of print design tools, and this is a bad thing. All I need now is a bit of time to take it in and maybe write a little response...

links for 2005-02-10

• Thinking With Type
  (categories: type typography letters education teaching)
• 'Type An Sich'
  Gerard Unger typeface exhibition
  (categories: typography typefaces fonts exhibition unger)

links for 2005-02-04

• Guardian Unlimited | Online | Tag team
  (categories: del flickr tags social)

links for 2005-02-02

• Letterlabor 1.0
  (categories: type typography letters)

links for 2005-02-01

• DeliciTunes 0.2 - VersionTracker
  (categories: iTunes deliciouslibrary apps software)
• Usability of Websites for Teenagers (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
  (categories: infodesign usability)