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Archive for September, 2009

Trying out Typekit

If you are reading this and it does not look like some hand written script typeface, you are either using a RSS reader (click on header to go to the blog post to get the real rendering) or you are using an old browser that does not support CSS3 yet in this case try opening [...]

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The Ikea Catalog Type in the Future

I think we all share a surprise at the new Ikea catalog and how can Ikea say that only the non designers will notice changes. I believe that everybody notices bad typography it is just that us as designers distinguish it and feel a deeper impact by bad visual data. Normal people are too used [...]

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Ars Electronica Festival 09 – Human Nature

What happened at this years Ars Electronica Festival. Well we saw a lot of robots, including Gemini the first clone robot coming from Japan and he was really life like as the author also walked around. At the Linz University the MIT media lab was this years featured university with some nice gadgets for rapid [...]

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