Open Tech 2008

I can’t do this because I’m at a wayzgoose in Witney, but it looks nicely varied, provocative and interesting.

My Del.icio.us tag cloud gets Wordled

Wordle seems to have done a good job of making my banale interests seem less so. Except for ‘imported’, a hitherto unsuspected tag category, which evidently got added to a whole load of bookmarks as they travelled between Netscape 4 and Safari – or was it Internet Explorer and Camino? – some years back…

Thanks to Jamie for the link to Wordle.

French ‘Moderne’ exhibition in Reading’s Typography department

This exhibition – curated by Ann Pillar – actually closed on 30 May, but it was still there during the annual students’ final displays of work. I took a closer look during the University’s open day the following weekend and, though it won’t be possible for others to see it, I’d like to record that it was a fantastic exhibition. The material shown was superb: it included a really lovely visual for a typical 1920s airbrush-style poster and enough magazines, books and type samples to give an excellent feel of the era. The captions were top-notch, always giving a good insight and context to the exhibits. A really great small show.
This link to the Department’s events page will eventually become irrelevant

Hypocracy 101

After lecturing people about not wasting money on large pointless projects, etc, etc, I have come into the ownership of an absolutely enormous and heavy pair of loudspeakers.

Sorry.

New fabrication from BMW

They’ve come up with a new concept car that offers a glimmer of hope to those who dream of a Chelsea tractor in tasteful burberry. With a zip.

Weekend activities

• Shed freecycled.
• JoLt brochure layout and typesetting begun, with Toby.
  
• Web site updated (it's behind you!) with download links for current versions of my fonts.