{"id":28836,"date":"2011-08-05T20:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=28836"},"modified":"2011-08-05T00:54:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T07:54:51","slug":"off-book-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/28836","title":{"rendered":"Off Book: Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eKKDL6lekmA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Type is universal&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Typography is everywhere &#8211; and as an art form is often overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>There are very few actual documentaries about type &#8211; and PBS decided to take on the task of making one. Or in this case, remaking one. <em>Off Book: Type<\/em> premiered this week as sort of a seven minute version of Gary Hustwit&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000VWEFP8?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=B000VWEFP8&#038;adid=0BZFHXDS176ARM5EW0P5&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">Helvetica.<\/a><\/em> Sort of. It IS a new doc, tho it does cover some ground already treaded.<\/p>\n<p>Off Book is PBS&#8217; new online series focusing on &#8216;experimental and nontraditional art forms.&#8217; For more information, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoaklandpress.com\/articles\/2011\/07\/19\/entertainment\/doc4e25df17d5985312431368.txt\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> Website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/arts\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Off Book: Type\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/28836\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Type is universal&#8217; Typography is everywhere &#8211; and as an art form is often overlooked. There are very few actual documentaries about type &#8211; and PBS decided to take on the task of making one. Or in this case, remaking one. Off Book: Type premiered this week as sort of a seven minute version of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,127,53,120],"tags":[121,58,122],"class_list":["post-28836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-fonts","category-thoughts","category-typography","tag-design","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28836"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28844,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28836\/revisions\/28844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}