Damascity

No, this is not one of those charity posts.
It’s all about my favourite plugin. Imagine a plugin that could improve
the typography of your page with no complicated setup. Controlling type
online can at times be difficult. However, things have just gotten a
whole lot easier with the release of the Typogrify plugin.

Slate presents the 12 kinds of ads.

Masable posts a list of 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources.

Included is a list of how-to guides for recording videos which I will have to go through very soon.

Interactive audio timeline of Typography in the 20th Century.

Andy Clarke (All That Malarkey) is writing a series of monthly articles on informit.com titled “Creating Inspired Design.”

So far he has posted 4 articles on issues of inspiration, bringing print design styles to the web and color schemes.

35 Designers x 5 Questions

From TypeForYou

Duane King set up Thinking for a Living as a guide to new designers. The Resources section lists a bunch of recommended books and the Surfing section has a list of key sites of magazines, organization, conferences, blogs and more.

Linotyped published “The Life and Work of William Addison Dwiggins” from their Linotype Matrix magazine. I can eat this stuff up all day long. I haven’t yet used any of his fonts for any work but I’ve been eyeing New Caledonia for some time. Caravan also looks like it may come into use soon.

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

Boxes & Arrows interviewed Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice. Interesting points were:

a) his comparing Google filtering to editorial filtering under the guise of democracy
b) the power of defaults:

The power of defaults is this:

When you enter your
drivers’ license, you get asked if you’d like to be an organ donor. And
if you do, you have to check a box and sign a form. And in the United
States, 90% of people approve of organ donation but 20% are organ
donors. There are several European countries that also use the drivers’
license as the opportunity to sign up organ donors. In those countries,
organ donation is 90%. And the only difference is, in those countries,
you have to sign a form and check a box if you don’t want to be an
organ donor. Otherwise you are.