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US Interstate, London Underground Map
Here is the US Interstate highway system drawn in the style of H.C. Beck’s London Underground map.
More info (and links to other Interstate maps) here. Super large size here (Yahoo/Flickr account required to view).
Illustrated by Cameron Booth.
Found via Coudal Partners
Taking a break, simulated Veterans Day
Today is almost my day off. So I’m sort of taking a break. Listening to Röyksopp. Veteran’s Day is this Wednesday, but the two schools where I teach have decided on different days for the holiday. So I have half of today off.
dad & war
My dad was a veteran. He ended up in the Merchant Marines during WWII. The Merchant Marines were not a combat force, they kept the supply lines going and the ships were mostly unarmed. They had a ridiculously insane amount of casualties.
He thought he’d be killed at any moment, but he wanted to see the world. He delivered supplies to combat zones just about everywhere, was surrounded by lots of violent death, ships sunk, really horrible stuff. [Read more →]
Julien Breton: More
Interview with calligrapher Julien Breton (in French, above); Virtual calligraphy v.0.1. performed in real time with the Digital Slaves (below).
Unicode typography, interpreted by mehallo
I’ve developed photographic visuals for the past three versions of The Unicode Standard. Unicode is a programming language that makes it possible for computers to operate in any language. This Wiki explains it better than I can.
The Unicode Standard 5.0, wraparound cover by mehallo
Working on the Unicode materials has been an incredible learning process – both from a technical standpoint as well as cultural. These are some of my images.
South Central Swiss
‘Talk about a psychedelic mimicking of rubricated blackletter!’ –Tiffany Wardle
South Central Swiss is a free fontstruct by dom nokes (domald). Grab it here.
Check out domald’s other fontstructs here.
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