RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • museumoflatinamericanart: Joaquín Torres García (Uruguay, 1874-1949) Composición constructiva 1934 Ink on paper Gift of Jorge Virgili in memory of his brother Salvador and all those who have suffered from AIDS M.2010.031

  • My son asked me today if the font Chipotle uses in its mark is Gotham. I said, “I don’t think so – the middle crossbar on the capital E is too low”, and then I told him I was the TA for a class wherein Tobias Frere-Jones, designer of Gotham, studied. I got an appreciative…

  • edelman8095: Ex-Google executive’s new venture helps students avoid corporate life | Reuters nanotrends: “Part social network, part crowdfunding service in the style of Kickstarter, Upstart provides an online forum where participants post personal profiles with their background and goals in the hope of attracting at least five financial backers. The backers – acquaintances, alumni or…

  • imageobjecttext: “Unfortunately, these concepts are ill prepared for the fluid media objects of our real-time era. Such analysis will by default favor visual representations (because this is what these schilars with their film, television, or art history backgrounds are trained to analyze) but neglect social and interactive dynamics. Do we truly expect to find exciting…

  • Screen-optimized fonts “look cheap on the retina MacBook Pro.”

    cameronmoll: John Gruber: Fonts optimized for screen rendering look cheap on the retina MacBook Pro — sometimes downright cheesy — in the same way they do when printed in a glossy magazine. Great fonts, intricately designed for high-resolution output, aren’t just allowed, they are necessary for a design that truly sings on this display. In…

  • I hope to be this natty when I make full professor. I began riding my bike to work last week, five miles out, five back.

  • Introducing open-source, project based mentorship

    alexkehayias: Spoiler: Project based mentorship is the future. I built http://mentorship.p2pu.org to connect people who want to learn (to code, design, whatever) or mentor by working on really cool projects. A Promise I’m a self-taught coder and I’m proud of it. I now make a living doing what I love: building cool shit. I would…

  • electrikmuse: Frontage Typeface by Juri Zaech Frontage is a charming layered type system with endless design possibilities using different combinations of fonts and colors. Achieve a realistic 3D effect by adding the shadow font or just use the capital letters of the regular and bold cut for stark artwork. You can download Frontage Outline for…

  • nevver: The Nietzsche Family Circus

  • The Drought In The West: Here To Stay, So Time To Move

    underpaidgenius: The 2000-2004 drought in the US West was apparently the  most sever drought of the past 800 years. But don’t think that means we are headed into a wet period: Christopher Schwalm, Christopher Williams, and Kevin Schaefer, Extreme Weather and Drought Are Here to Stay Future precipitation trends, based on climate model projections for…