some great work from SF-based illustrator wendy mcnaughton
me news
forever jong
congratulations to my friends from vandejong who celebrated their 25th anniversary last night with a great party (ouch) and a beautiful catalogue of 25 years worth of work, placed out of context in random order to great effect, very nice… keep up the good work and best wishes from me
type objects
a new book ‘type object’ featuring quite a few of our projects arrived in the studio this week, the well researched book, written by barbara brownie unfortunately took longer than expected to get published as some of the projects are almost six years old by now… still, always nice to see the work getting published in these kinds of volumes…
90 minutes
a new app due to launch soon under the moniker ‘spritz’ claims to enable reading an entire novel in around (or under) 90 minutes
the idea is pretty revolutionary-sounding: it places words in front of your eyes one by one; instead of the traditional line-for-line or page-for-page method:
…in every word you read, there is an “Optimal Recognition Point” or ORP. This is also called a “fixation point.” The “fixation point” in every word is generally immediately to the left of the middle of a word, explains Kevin Larson, of Microsoft’s Advanced Reading Technologies team. As you read, your eyes hop from fixation point to fixation point, often skipping significantly shorter words…
t-y-p-o-g-r-a-p-h-y
a useful little collection of type related stuff