[Hotlinks] Typomaniacs and the history of a large design firm
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
As my wife would attest to, I am online a lot — which may not be the best idea in the world — but I count most of my time on the Interweb productive, rather than not. In that time I find a lot of interesting (fascinating, well-written, well-designed, inpspiring, etc.) websites, and, in the spirit of Elsewhere by Khoi Vinh and Shaun Inman, Derek Powazek’s links, 37signals Sunspots, John Gruber’s Linked List and others, I’ve decided to begin sharing articles I find. I’ve often fought deciding to do this, because, what can I add that’s not already covered? My Google Page Rank and Technorati Authority are zero, but I’m throwing all that to the wind and stepping out into this new territory. If one person finds one clip interesting or helpful, then it will have been well worth it.
So, to identify such a post, I will call it Hotlinks, along with a snapshot of what’s inside. I’m not sure how frequent this will be — perhaps once or twice a week — but, here to start it off are a couple video’s I came upon yesterday:
- Erik Spiekermann presents a case for Typomania (50.6mb Quicktime)
Hilarious and enjoyable video about typography. A quick Google search provides a snippet of information telling us this is from a BBC program in the 1980’s. (Via Spiekermann’s website) - Hillman Curtis: “Pentagram ‘07”
Excellently photographed and edited promotional video for Pentagram design firm. (Via Khoi Vinh)