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Line & detail

The innovation driver: Lifespans

via mjperry.blogspot.com More peo­ple, liv­ing longer, con­sum­ing more resources, increas­ing com­pe­ti­tion, dri­ves inno­va­tion. I look back over my life­time and believe that the sin­gle biggest force of change has been the growth of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion from 150 mil­lion to 300 mil­lion and the global pop­u­la­tion from about 3 bil­lion to 7 bil­lion. One major […]

A new decade needs a new font

via richardalanroberts.co.uk I’ve loved Hel­vetica ever since I set type by hand with it in the mid-70’s. Not only did it print clean, it stayed clean — the ink didn’t gum up in the ridges like it did on the dainty serif fonts. And when you looked closely at the type heads, you could see […]