La Contraloría, San José, Costa Rica r/brutalism
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La Contraloría, San José, Costa Rica r/brutalism
Sh! The Octopus (1937)
#moviemagic
FontLab Tip: Larger Guides
Guides can have a width. Select the guide and set its width in Property bar (1) or using the Guide panel (2). This kind of guide is very useful to mark overshoot areas (3) and also to indicate the position and size of some diacritics (4).
TIL that Will Smith’s Men in Black song is just a rip-off of Patrice Rushen’s 1982 single “Forget Me Nots” and I dig everything about the original.
Epic vaporsax solo incoming at 3′00″!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMH...
Erik Henningsen (1855–1930): “Parade of the Infantry or Changing of the Guard” (1888). Oil on canvas, 90 x 148.5 cm (35.4 x 58.4 in). National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vagtparade_(Henningsen).jpg
This 1888 oil painting has phone snapshot vibes.
“(Infanteriets) Vagtparade” (“Changing of the Guard”) by Danish painter and illustrator Erik Ludvig Henningsen (1855—1930).
Another detail: a small woman and a tree with a snake (Eve), followed by "ngelium". This reads as "Evangelium".
And what about this pun: "Evangelium", made of an image of the biblical "Eva" and a few letters. Halleluja.
I just bought a CD-ROM from 2002. The flash-based launcher still starts! But, more importantly: the actual data is stored in plain formats (PDF, jpg …) and accessible in structured folders. I can use it as I see fit. It’s so nice that something old just works without hacks and kludges for a change.
Wow, een rijdende lectuurwinkel in Amsterdam in de seventies.
We moeten terug!
That was a few years ago, though. I’m still mildly indignant about them badmouthing cozy Hebden Bridge.
Magazine ads for Soysauce (Kikkoman) designed by Tadashi Ohashi in the 1980s. Scanned from Advertisements (World Graphic Design Now), Kodansha, 1991
designreviewed.com/tadashi-ohas...
After inadvertently opening the InDesign help for the bazillionth time, I finally removed the help shortcut from the [F1] key and assigned it the same functions as [ESC] instead.
Peace of mind!
Should’ve done this ages ago.
A collection of every news article starting with the words “The internet”. Is that a thing?
Case in point: “Twilio” is a real thing, apparently.
Henry Sotheran Ltd (@Sotherans) on twitter: "ART COLLECTORS: my vault is hermetically sealed COMIC COLLECTORS: everything is ordered by issue and in plastic TOY COLLECTORS: I've never even opened this box BOOK COLLECTORS: (erupts from a pile of books) I have no idea what I was looking for when I started"
Learning to write in script again feels recursive.
Ha, this would be the “adult” version.
I strongly suspect that this is a joke. But it tells a lot about the state of our industry that you can’t be sure because these might as well be perfectly realistic names of software or companies.
Either that, or all of this is real and I’m officially and immensely out of the loop.
NEW YORK HYBRID New York-based type foundry Sharp are looking for a graphic designer to join their team and deliver work for brands such as YouTube, Twilio and Dropbox. Must be proficient in most versions of Loodle Max, with at least a basic understanding of the Omega Vv.1.2.29 early release Loodle Lite plug in software release. A keen sense of Poob workflow and Gumpy implementation. The ability to adapt to Pheebo-style collaborative spaces. 3+ years of site building experience in Wondee. Efficient prototyping in Glorp Pro.
Never seen so many strange, infantile words in a job posting (and I don’t even know what they mean).
I had to check twice to realize he’s not texting on his phone in this image.
Uhm, is “Noodles” bad? Asking for a friend who calls one of their dogs Noodles most of the time.
Weird to see a random Apple-style UI toggle haphazardly placed on a sci-fi mag cover from the 1970s.
Also, first time I’ve ever seen a UI toggle tilted.
French open plan modernist living room interior decorated in earth tones with modular seating, built-in cabinetry, and a central fireplace. The photo is from 1971, but the space was designed in 1968 and features Poul Kjaerholm PK22 chairs and an Eero Saarinen Tulip Armchair. The prominent arched floor lamp is the iconic Arco model by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos.
Design by Pierre Guariche, Alain Marcot and Guy Lagneau, France (1971) #ArcoLamp #Castiglioni
Wicked fonts!
What’s with the faces and lettering? Looks like AI slop.
Every designer who doesn’t trust the process
Marsh’s Library in Dublin had a better idea - people were locked in cages to read books.
Fans of round sans around the world – come join my talk! I’ll be sharing rich visuals and taking a closer look at the details, history, and cultural context of round sans in Japan. 😃🇯🇵
American Knickerbockers; c. 1925, from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Wesley Wallace Tillotson, 1956 From https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knickerbockers_MET_56.55.10_CP4.jpg
I’d totally wear these 1925 knickerbockers. Great fabric, favorable shape, stylish, good for summer (barefoot at the beach) and winter (with combat boots). And they look comfy, too.
The world was still sepia in 1986? I thought they’d invented color by the 1970s.
Bram Stein and @josesole.bsky.social’s extremely thorough Fonts chapter of the Web Almanac is out: almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts
#Fonts #WebDesign #Webfonts
