I thought I would compile some of the past weeks articles I came across on the web. All of them are related to design in one way or another. Enjoy!
Follow The Yellowlane
A recent acquisition of my bookmarks menu is Yellowlane. The content is filled with quite a variety of items, and the author shows off his new house; I’m not too sure about his interior color choices, but more power to ya.
Milton’s Playground
Albeit dated, not from this week but I listened this week, are a pair of recordings of Milton Glaser speaking to students on design, education, and jobs. It’s an interesting listen. I don’t really agree on what he mentions about students graduating from design school (AKA college) not knowing about graphic design. That might be the old man talking. Overall, I highly recommend it.
iNoKern
Typographica mentioned a custom kerning application iKern. Ever heard of InDesign CS?
Loitering Computer
Somebody was timing their start-up lag time again. Give me a break! I can think of other things that cut into my productivity.
Any thoughts?
Oh. Well, now it sounds like a great thing. Combign that with OpenType fonts and you have a typographers dream.
Thanks for the clarification.
The reason iKern is significant is that it’s the first service targeted at font makers to automatically add kerning data to their fonts. InDesign’s optical spacing is a end-user service, usable in InDesign only. It doesn’t change the font files in any way.