A transmission from the deep south.
Type designer and Typekit consultant Tim Ahrens has written a comprehensive state of the play for Smashing Magazine regarding rendering engines and font formats for screen use. He covers the basics of rasterisation, the benefits and drawbacks of the Windows ClearType renderer, and the differences between PostScript and TrueType outlines. A must read.
Today we’re pleased to announced our transition from private to public beta. All pages on Letterboxd are now publicly visible (except for those deemed private by their owners), and all new users are able to send invitations to friends immediately following sign up. Letterboxd will remain invitation-only for a period, to enable us to control our rate of growth.
Beyond thrilled to be able to pull the covers off our social film review site, as we transition to a public beta. Very proud of the team and what we’ve accomplished so far.
The Grady twins from The Shining, by cartoonist David Lasky. (via Lee Unkrich)
Type design firm Underware’s bold and beautiful new wordmark for Tahoe South. Love.
A stunning, fan-made opening title sequence for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, created and composited by Doğan Can Gündoğdu. /via Nice Type
Letterboxd, the social film diary and review site I’ve been working on with a few colleagues over the past year, is nearing its public beta launch. We’ve continued to add to and improve the site since launching at Brooklyn Beta last October — film pages have had an overhaul as you can see above, among many other improvements.
If you’d like to be part of the private beta, drop your email address at letterboxd.com over the weekend, and we’ll get an invitation out to you early next week.
FontShop’s best typefaces of 2011 have been announced:
To celebrate the end of another exciting year in type, our type experts put their heads together to compile our annual “Best Of” list, highlighting the typefaces that surprised, impressed, and delighted us.
Some nice picks, I’m a big fan of TypeTogether’s Abril which was lauded as a “Modern Romance”.
“That’s No Moon.” The perfect Christmas ornament by Chris McVeigh, with instructions.
Offscreen magazine, a Kickstarter project from Melbournites Kai Brach and Jess Murray, is a little over $5,000 short of a modest goal with 3 days left to run on its campaign. Here’s the idea in their words:
Offscreen is a new, quarterly print magazine with an in-depth look at the life and work of people that create websites and apps shaping our digital lifestyle. We want to tell the less obvious human stories of creativity, passion and hard work that hide behind every interface.
The pair plan to print and distribute the inaugural issue regardless of whether they’re successfully kickstarted, and the list of interviewees for it is impressive: Tim van Damme, Dan Cederholm, Andrew Wilkinson, Drew Wilson, Blake Whitman, Ryan Singer, Lisa Bettany, Sam Brown and more.
Visit their Kickstarter page to contribute $25 (or more) to receive the first issue, or subscribe for email/Twitter updates.
Some people flunk out of school, but are still very interesting people. They’re not in the class that goes ahead, but maybe you’d like to go visit them.
— David Lynch reflects on almost an hour’s worth of deleted scenes which have been included on the 25th anniversary Blu-ray of Blue Velvet, out this month.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
