Type Nerds: I Made You a Present

I have a blog problem. I bookmark cool blogs that I find, but I tend to just stick to my one or two regulars and never go back to the new ones because it’s too much trouble for me to remember to check a bunch of different blogs each day. That, and I like to [...]

Sweet Data Visualization

Wow. I was researching different diagramming and data visualization methods to figure out exactly how I can visualize the data that I’m going to gather for my capstone. I was thinking that it would be most useful to try and organize the dimensions of data into buckets of similar ideation techniques to see if any [...]

Design Studies Journal (!)

Today I was googling for something relating to design—I don’t even remember what I was searching for now—and instead of getting what I thought I wanted, I ended up getting the only journal in existence completely focused on Design Studies. Take a moment to let that sink in. Perhaps the existence of this journal is [...]

Letter is to envelope as egg is to…?

(hint, the answer is c)

We’ve been talking a lot about analogies in class lately, and how it can be helpful to think of analogies to a new problem space you are exploring in design studies. I’m really excited about how it’s already started broadening my thinking. Almost without consciously thinking about it, I’ve been coming [...]

Oded Ezer

Tipografya – Oded Ezer

In my preliminary research on Hebrew typography, I stumbled upon Oded Ezer’s blog Spare Type and just about lost my proverbial shit. To be honest, I wasn’t doing research at all, I was messing around on Twitter and saw an intriguing link to a story titled Typo Mythology: How Type and [...]