Zelda warriors: Weekend cleanup part 1
Whenever I come across a video or an article or a photo that I think might be worth blogging about, I throw it into a draft e-mail and, ideally, click on it when I’m in a good blogging sitch and make the wordsmithery happen. As you can probably imagine, some of these links slip through the cracks. Not because they’re not good, but sometimes I just don’t get around to writing about them before something more timely comes up.
So this is me, clearing out my list of links, which I present to you for your weekend reading enjoyment.
# A not quite tongue-in-cheek documentary on Comic Sans, the most hated of typefaces. I’m not 100 percent sure, but it may have been produced by bu students. Still pretty ok, though.
# Here’s Walter Pincus on the troubles with journalism. Thesis:
My profession is in distress because for more than a decade it has been chasing the false idols of fame and fortune. While engaged in those pursuits, it forgot its readers and the need to produce a commercial product that appealed to its mass audience, which in turn drew advertisers and thus paid for it all. While most corporate owners were seeking increased earnings, higher stock prices, and bigger salaries, editors and reporters focused more on winning prizes or making television appearances.
I don’t necessarily agree with that statement, but far be it from to question a guy who’s logged as many miles as Pincus. Read the piece!
# Miles over at Now Is Not the Rhyme wrote a piece about the tricks that designers play with Photoshop, and the consequences that arise. I started writing a loooooong response titled “What is authenticity? An epistemological hermenutic of Photoshop,” which, mercifully, went off the rails before I could finish it. Read it, and then look at this, and just let things percolate.
# Neat drawings of different subway systems, done to scale.
Tags: fonts, journalism, mass transit, Photoshop
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