Click the image to view the high-resolution, zoomable Flash version.
When I first heard ‘Ajax’ used by a techie, I thought they were referring to AFC Ajax, the Dutch soccer club. In any case, Ajax lets us do lots of fun stuff we could code with Flash — but with Javascript / XML-based interfaces. Enter Tween - a Javascript port of the [...]
The point of this is to manipulate your visual perspective. You can read the big text from far away (completely zoomed out), cannot read it at 33% of the size, and then can read the small text only when completely zoomed in.
This sign was “creatively acquired” from a friend’s apartment building and has made the journey out West with me. Akzidenz-Grotesk (read: German for grotesque accident) was ironically–and unintentionally so–used for years on virtually all transportation signs in the Western world (the French had to be different and developed their own typeface for road signs, [...]
Doesn’t the title sound like the lyrics to a Kraftwerk song?
To explain: I discovered that my apartment building, built in the 70s, has the Akzidenz-Grotesk typeface featured on thermometers and switch-boxes.
… is in the design portfolio, if you mosey on over there. In case you ever wanted to see more of what’s under the text on my website, here’s a high-res version of the graphics used for the background.
Bourne in the Foundry, high-resolution design piece (consisting of photos and historical documents from Pittsburgh), 90 x [...]
This should be available in coffeeshops and newstands ’round the University of Pittsburgh, if any of you happen to find yourselves there.
Oh, and the new site should be live at www.pittpoliticalreview.org by Friday.