Everything you’d ever need to know about ‘The Golden Age of Homeland Security’ can be found at the Conelrad website.
The site is named for the Civil Defense emergency network – ‘CONtrol of ELectronic RADiation’ which was set up to broadcast on AM 640 and 1240 in the event of an atomic attack.
In the future, we were all supposed to live off of a never ending supply of nutritional pills. Which, from looking at the pill-based ‘natural’ supplements in my medicine cabinet – purchased in the pill section of the ‘natural’ food store – we’re not too far off.
From Wallpaper: Here’s three future of food videos by the Philips Food Design Probes project. Press release here. Gallery here.
The Nutrition Monitor
‘The Nutrition Monitor scanning wand consists of a sensor which is swallowed, and a scanning wand which can measure the nutritional value of food. It can determine exactly what sort of food you need, when you need it, and how much of it you actually need to eat to match your requirements and achieve optimum health.’
The Food Printer
‘The Food Printer provides molecular gastronomy at the touch of a button by using the principles of rapid prototyping. Simply pop in a couple of cartridges of, say, carrot and onion, and ‘print’ them into whatever shape and consistency you fancy.’
The Biosphere Home Farm
‘The Biosphere Home Farm contains fish, plants and other mini ecosystems, and allows different life forms to live in harmony with each other. It looks like a 21st century aquarium crossed with stylish shelving unit.’
This is dedicated to my students, who’ve been working their asses off all weekend.
A few hours ago, I saw the online complaints about Kinko’s now legendary horrible customer service (was it always like this, or just after the FedEx buyout?). Typography 4 final crit is at 9 a.m. today.
. . . And when MyFonts did a write up of my Jeanne Moderno fonts for their Rising Stars newsletter – they spent some time digging thru so they could show some of my telescoping ascenders, alternates and ligatures (above). I like to hide things in my fonts, fill the blank slots as it were.
(Below) Psy/Ops new type sample for Jeanne Moderno. Psy/Ops also carries the Jeanne fonts, they did the final OpenType mastering before release (and without their support, Jeanne could possibly still be sitting in the 10 year limbo that was part of my process).
Once a font is completed, showing the letters and glyphs in their best light is a tricky exercise. FontShop does it right and in this video shows some of the decisions made when creating a good type sample – in this case, the sample for Matthew Carter’s beautiful Miller typefaces, which I used for The Sacramento Union Magazine.
In the 1800s, type foundries used to set their samples in Latin – following the belief that our alphabet looks best in its original language. Marcus Tullius Cicero’s first speech against Lucius Sergius Catilina (below) was popular for samples.
Today, graphic designers use Lorem Ipsum for placeholder text.
Steve Mehallo:
Nope. There’s more of us. And if you think we’re freaks, you’re right. But we know how to change the world. We invented the ipod, aerosol cheese, disco and the escalator. See if you can do that you non-dreamers you!
