13 July 2010
This time I took as the main theme the “Ship of Fools”, an allegory that has long been a fixture in Western literature and art. It’s about a vessel populated by human inhabitants who are frivolous or oblivious passengers aboard a ship…
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4 June 2010
Some history: Before the DTP revolution, the life of a typographer felt more like being a mechanic, either using a machine that looked like a steam-punk typewriter, casting type in lead as one line of type (guess who’s company name was inspired by…
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30 March 2010
Typography historically used to be somewhat confined to type, although the selection of paper and even some aspects of bookbinding were still things one had to think about when designing for any printed matter. Ever since phototypesetting, digital publishing…
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24 February 2010
The Arc90 Lab started an interesting experiment called, you guessed it, “Readbility”. Why wait for typographically impaired websites to finally see the light (if ever)? The open and dynamic character of the web enables us to alter the content and…
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23 February 2010
So every time when I go out with friends and everyone, yes everyone is ordering a pitcher of Nama1 (生ビール), I always have to pass. Then usually people ask me either whether I don’t feel well, or whether I don’t drink any alcohol at…
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16 January 2010
While it is perfectly correct if you interpret this sign as instructions to go upstairs for the change to JR railways, you might also wrongly assume that it’s not only perfectly alright to use the rightmost passage, but it also appears that you are…
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