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• Post #4179866

  😂 💀 https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZzSmQTsVb5/

• Post #4179865

  Hello typo.social, do I know anyone with (access to) a copy of Rosbeek 38 with the work of Pierre di Sciullo? I have a favor to ask.

• Post #3592947

  Please share widely: After May 2027, I’ll no longer be a faculty member at Iowa State University. I’ll be looking for full-time work to start after that. (I could also start before the upcoming fall term, in August; or after fall term ends, and before the spring term starts in January.) I could really use your help with tips or information about, or connections, to searches and postings. But I’m at something of a professional inflection point, so I’m asking for your help as I look for positions...

• Post #3294257

  Passing on a question from a friend: does anyone know of any apps/programs for youngsters to make fonts? The suggested analog was TinkerCAD, but for type design. I've suggested Rob Meeks's FontStruct, but maybe other folks have good suggestions?

• Post #2671884

  Hello, typo.social—I will be in the Netherlands (tyrants and the fates allowing) 15–28 June. Staying in Amsterdam. Research stops and friendly visits planned and in progress. Itinerary can be flexible.

• Post #2671883

  RE: https://typo.social/@monokrom/116583523770058935 ‘Make a font more interesting by changing one letter of its name.’

• Post #1755796

  After François Morellet’s Tirets 0°, 90° (oil on canvas, 1960). Took some doing to build in the gentle imprecision of Morellet’s original; still not perfectly happy with it, but I like it, so. Built with Python in @drawBot.

• Post #1755795

  Project for my next intro Python/ @drawBot workshop. The animation timing will be tricky but fun to do.

• Post #1755794

  After Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #47, 1970 (as shown in Horizontal Composite, 1970). Built with Python in @drawBot using fontTools, the Python library that keeps on giving

• Post #1755793

  The classic Hans Hilfiker Swiss Bahnhofsuhr is accomplished! Make sure you watch all the way around; getting both the second and minute hand movement, and the minute hand’s ‘waggle’ as it moves from one minute to the next, took some doing. Built with Python in @drawBot

• Post #1702995

  10/10, no notes https://bsky.app/profile/philplait.bsky.social/post/3mjmzdvk3uc2v

• Post #1702992

  New Boards of Canada album coming soon: https://boardsofcanada.com/

• Post #1702991

  A proposal for an optional studio course for this fall from a department colleague. When I read this, I wanted to throw my laptop across my office.

• Post #1702990

  Happy to share this from my friends at Studio Gebr. Silvestri in Amsterdam. (Full disclosure: I have an essay in the book, and I think I indirectly suggested the title?) https://gebr.silvestri.nl/serious-play/serious-play/

• Post #1702989

  @vasilis 🤚

• Post #1558190

  For those spending absolutely no time at all on the bird site: .pdfs of pieces in Typography Papers are beginning to emerge, soon to include all issues. http://typography.network/typographypapers/

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• Post #996300

  If you're looking for new music? Highly recommended pairup of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and Frédéric Oberland, Eternal Life No End ليلة ظلماء ملعونة، كحياة طالبيها https://rgmfdo.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-life-no-end

• Post #996299

  This is the only Easter film for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn0mFJkaSj8

• Post #996298

  ‘Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, …

• Post #688914

  There’s still time to register for my online Python for Visual Designers workshop for Type@Cooper @coopertype Thursdays 6.30–9.30pm US Eastern from 26 March–14 May (8 weeks). You’ll learn the basics of creative coding and how to draw and manipulate vector shapes and raster images and set type with Python code in the free MacOS application DrawBot. We’ll work with variable fonts and make some basic animations as well—and work together on some larger projects too, like this animation of @letterro...

• Post #457186

  I see this book got some well-deserved love on @FontsInUse but Thomas’s wonderul Minérale to one side: I just finished reading it, and I can’t praise it highly enough. The phrase tour de force can be overused, but it’s perfectly apt here. Even if you think you aren’t that interested in the interconnections of global music: you are. Bonus: Boyd himself reads the audiobook, and it’s a treat. https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571360000-and-the-roots-of-rhythm-remain/