At the beginning of this month D’Arcy Norman posted this question on his blog: “How do you connect to people online?” His intention is to collect responses to this question which will then be published in a narrative on the project website on November 30th. I happened upon this project through Martin Weller’s response which he posted on his blog last week. Obviously this has prompted me to think about how I connect to people online. My first thought was about the tools I use; Twitter, Facebook, blogs (WordPress and Tumblr), delicious and Flickr to name but a few. Each [...]
November, 2009:
Mixed type
I have long been a fan of typefaces and a couple of weeks ago I had my first experience of hand printing. Some friends of ours have their own hand press and kindly allowed us to print the invitations for our civil partnership on it. Since then there have been a few type related items cropping up on Twitter and in my RSS feeds and these reminded me of some items I’ve read before on the topic. So, I thought I’d collate them all here for your enjoyment. The first is this video which I saw a while ago: Next [...]
