Smashing Magazine Feed says:
“Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies. In fact, one of the greatest ancient philosophers, Aristotle, said: “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”
Read the article here from Smashing Magazine Feed.
Posted on 09 Feb 2010 around 2pm • Tagged with: Design | Typography | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
This video from YouTube shows a certain conflict between old and new teaching styles.
At the London College of Printing they still make use of letterpress type to teach typography. You can see this video on YouTube here:
Posted on 09 Apr 2007 around 9am • Tagged with: Offsite Links | Typography | Permanent link to this article
A couple of times recently this has presented a problem and an interesting challenge.
Poets create their work with a view to wanting a particular layout of the words. Some may prefer the lines centred and others left aligned. Some poets may want their poems displayed with the wrapped line (where it is a long line) centred or right aligned.
So what would be the best way to display poems? What have others done to resolve this complex issue?
Posted on 09 Mar 2007 around 11am • Tagged with: How I do things | Typography | Permanent link to this article
I sometimes receive text documents with headings or emphasis achieved by using uppercase letters. What can we do about this?
Users of word processors often find sneaky ways to emphasise headings by using bold or increased font sizes. During the import into HTML or CMS we can easily remove these un-wanted styles, or convert them to the most appropriate tags (eg. b becomes strong, i becomes em). Uppercase letters are different though because they have (usually) been typed in using the capital letters on the keyboard.
Posted on 16 Jul 2006 around 10am • Tagged with: How I do things | Typography | Permanent link to this article
I often observe that web site addresses are published in print and there seems to be little consistency in the way people do it! I thought I should investigate the minimum web address that needs to be indicated to get a successful hit on a web page. Most people would be happy with http://www.someplace.com and all browsers will add the http:// on to this automatically. Do we really need to show the cryptic "http://" ?
Posted on 28 Jun 2004 around 9am • Tagged with: Typography | Web Technology | Permanent link to this article
