Monday, April 28, 2008
My brother-in-law, Erick Moser, is a graduate student at Saint Louis University studying historical theology. He needed a custom world map-rendering for a presentation he’s giving this week. He puts it in context:
When discussing world history or modern Church history … the discussion most often tends to focus 1) only on North America and Western Europe or 2) if it includes the rest of the world it is only to show how these other elements have an effect on Western Europe and North America.
Basically, our mental map often looks like [this map]; all the continents are present, but we don’t see them. This map shows how drastic such a view is. In other words, it brings to our consciousness the implicit assumptions we often have.
Here’s the map, which is based on this original PDF (click it to zoom it):
Thursday, April 24, 2008
I Love Typography — I love it! Without writing too much about it, I would like to mention that I won a free copy of The Complete Manual of Typography from iLT! Thanks John (for the book and the site)! I might also mention that I recently won a free copy of FontBook from Kirby Ferguson over at Goodie Bag — thanks again, Kirby!
Alphabet City — Jason Santa Maria recently went on a typography walking tour led by Tobias Frere-Jones of the venerable H&FJ type foundry of which he notes “There are few chances to be lead around such a historic city to look at interesting typography by someone so knowledgeable of craft and heritage.” Ain’t that the truth! I wish I could have been there.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Last night (Tuesday) Marta and I went to the Kentucky Center for the Arts to see and hear Maya Lin talk about her work. She is, of course, mostly known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. I knew little of her prior to her presentation, and I am thoroughly glad to have been exposed to her work. She brings together a beautiful and thoughtful balance of nature and modernism that I love. Read and see more.
