Berättelsen om hur typsnittet Kumla från Letters of Sweden kom till, med inspiration från skylten på Kumla Skofabrik. Kumla-typsnittet är det första i en serie kallad Fabrik, "a project inspired by Swedish industry, factories and harbours." (Tack Peter för tips!)
Software for Time Well Spent är något slags projekt som vill förbättra saker och ting under credot "Software shouldn't compete to maximize screen time, but to demonstrate lasting improvements in human lives." Finns inte så jättemycket att se än men saker utlovas.
Man blir aldrig trött på fina kartor, så Beautiful Maps.
The New Yorker skriver om Umberto Ecos "How to Write a Thesis", en slags handbok för studenter först utgiven 1977 och nu tillgänglig på engelska. Ett litet utdrag från artikeln som träffade mig:
"But there are also old-fashioned approaches that seem more useful than ever: he recommends, for instance, a system of sortable index cards to explore a project’s potential trajectories. Moments like these make 'How to Write a Thesis' feel like an instruction manual for finding one’s center in a dizzying era of information overload. Consider Eco’s caution against 'the alibi of photocopies': 'A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many.' Many of us suffer from an accelerated version of this nowadays, as we effortlessly bookmark links or save articles to Instapaper, satisfied with our aspiration to hoard all this new information, unsure if we will ever get around to actually dealing with it. (Eco’s not-entirely-helpful solution: read everything as soon as possible.)"
Fint att ha som bakgrundsljud i lurarna om man jobbar i en stökig miljö: Sounds of the Bodleian.
Charles Young bygger en pappersmodell om dagen, bildar en stad: Paperholm.