Matthew Buchanan

A Closer Look At Font Rendering

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:12:08 +1200

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.

YumYumLondon created toy business people for a Wired feature on...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:31:37 +1300

YumYumLondon created toy business people for a Wired feature on networking, drawing inspiration from Wes Anderson’s The Fantasic Mr Fox.

For the release of director Christopher Nolan’s latest...

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:57:00 +1200

For the release of director Christopher Nolan’s latest science-fiction mind-bender Inception, Wired lists its favourite 15 films from the genre. It’s a good list, including — along with notable classics 2001 and Brazil — Darren Aronofsky’s Pi and The Fountain, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and my three favourite space films of the past few years, Duncan Jones’ Moon, Danny Boyle’s Sunshine and Steven Soderbergh’s remake of Solaris. Biggest omission: they forgot Primer. Again.

Revised Font Stack

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:39:09 +1300

Revised Font Stack:

David Kaneda:

A Way Back takes a fresh look at default font stack, first citing statistics about pre-installed fonts, then making recommendations for popular sites like Yahoo and Facebook.

"After he finished making True Lies, Cameron called Kubrick, by then a recluse, and invited himself..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:38:00 +1300

“After he finished making True Lies, Cameron called Kubrick, by then a recluse, and invited himself over. They spent a day, in the basement of Kubrick’s house in the English countryside, watching True Lies at Kubrick’s flatbed editing station. Cameron went over the shots … so that Kubrick could learn how the effects were done.”

- One of many anecdotes from The New Yorker’s lengthy feature on James Cameron ahead of his sci-fi opus Avatar, opening in December. (via José Barbosa)

Spread from Wired’s new issue, featuring H&FJ’s...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:40:00 +1300

Spread from Wired’s new issue, featuring H&FJ’s Tungsten and icon by Pentagram’s Michael Gericke. (via Jonathan Hoefler)

"The CPM has done more to stunt innovation and drag down quality products than any single thing on..."

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:43:05 +1300

“The CPM has done more to stunt innovation and drag down quality products than any single thing on the internet.”

- Whiskey Media CEO Shelby Bonnie makes a plea to kill off the outdated practice of paying for online ad impressions. He doesn’t offer a replacement, rather a starting point for a method of measurement that works better for individual campaigns. (via Che Tamahori)

"Be passionate about what you do. If you’re not passionate about design, or development, do us all a..."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:12:07 +1200

“Be passionate about what you do. If you’re not passionate about design, or development, do us all a favor and start doing something else. Passion can lead to greatness.”

- Noah Stokes writing about The State of the Web Design Profession. (via Darren Wood)

"Birdhouse is a wonderful ‘notepad for Twitter’, but I’ve included it in this screenshot mainly..."

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:57:31 +1200

“Birdhouse is a wonderful ‘notepad for Twitter’, but I’ve included it in this screenshot mainly because Adam Lisagor is a sensitive young man and I know his feelings would be damaged if it weren’t there.”

- John Gruber writing about his iPhone home screen at First & 20.

"Our next generation must think boldly in terms of a goal for the space program: Mars for..."

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:09:49 +1200

“Our next generation must think boldly in terms of a goal for the space program: Mars for America’s future. I am not suggesting a few visits to plant flags and do photo ops but a journey to make the first homestead in space: an American colony on a new world.”

- On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, achieved on less processing power than a cellphone, Buzz Aldrin thinks further afield in The Washington Post. (via Jason Kottke)