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• Photo Booth at the Ace Hotel

  It is my new favorite place in Portland. Never mind that the latest macs have this feature built-in.
  This photo booth is the real deal. Plus, there is smart and beautiful typography all over it.

  I’m headed back there soon for coffee at Stumptown (next door) and to make more pictures. The Ace Hotel has great type [...]

  Posted on Oct 14.07 to portland, typography   

• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

  Keep an eye on webtypography.net as Richard Rutter helps us to bring the lessons from Robert Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style to practice using css and html.
  I’m not sure how long it has been since the last update and I discovered it via 31Three’s blog mention of Web Typography Sucks, a session from SXSW 2007 [...]

  Posted on Oct 08.07 to asides, typography, web design   

• More Lessons About Type on the Web

  I was hoping there would be a magical and contradictory answer to my realization that there are not many typefaces available when designing for the web and using CSS.
  The realization, if memory serves, happened while searching for themes for this wordpress-powered blog. Not only did I notice very quickly that themes used a limited list [...]

  Posted on Oct 05.07 to design, typography, web design   

• Cuts and Type at the University of Montana, Missoula

  We’re back from a road trip to Missoula, Montana where we checked out the University of Montana with my stepson who expressed interest in the college and has been heavily weighing options about career paths.
  Journalism is a possible career path and turns out the University of Montana just completed building the new School of Journalism. [...]

  Posted on Sep 25.07 to design, letterpress, typography   

• Books for School

  In just a little over a week, classes will begin for Portland State University’s Multimedia Certificate Program.
  Wow. I’m nervous and excited. Anticipation is amazing.
  Here are some of the books that are included when you enroll and the others I bought out of curiosity.

  Beginning CSS: From Novice to Professional is the book I used to design [...]

  Posted on Sep 07.07 to classes, design, typography, web design   

• The NYTimes, ‘What’s Your Sign?’

  The New York Times Sunday Magazine has a wonderful story on America’s highway road signs and the designers, Don Meeker (from Oregon - yay!) and James Montalbano, who collaborated to bring us the new look. I haven’t had a chance yet to read the whole story and so far, it seems a fascinating article of [...]

  Posted on Aug 11.07 to design, typography