Subscribe hereYou all know Patton's speech, right? If you don't it's over here. Watch, it's awesome. (If that link doesn't work, Google 'patton opening speech'.)
Anyway. It's now on YouTube as glorious typography.
That, for now, is all.
Tom has a written a great little summary of examples of text in the world. Take a look, lots of good stuff like this.
Lauren sent me this lovely thing in the post which I'm only just getting round to sticking up here.
WARNING: These photos aren't as nice as the ones AceJet takes.
It's from an exhibition Tobias Frere-Jones held in Melbourne of his collection of photos of NYC signage. It's fucking gorgeous.
Since 2002 he's been documenting the lettering of NYC. Here's a pixelly explanation here.
Lovely stuff. Thanks Lauren.
Wieden + Kennedy London have set up a thing called Platform. As the name suggests it's a way for talented people to find their way into advertising and other creative industries. Not just w+k and not just writers and art directors.
Here's the official blurb:
If you are reading this and you're a design student who's just graduated and you're worrying about finding a job (and you should be worried about that) then you could do a lot worse than apply for this. There's a simple brief to answer and they'll pay you £250 a week for 6-9 months.
You should apply. The deadline is tomorrow so you'll need to be quick. But you should still do it. Stop watching the cricket. Apply.
We've just spent a very enjoyable hour listening to The Boss and playing with Jeremy's new project We Make Stories.
It's the latest in the excellent We <verb> Stories series and follows on from the multi award winning We Tell Stories. It's a story making thing for 6 - 11 year olds. My kids are younger but they still enjoyed it.
You can build comic books, treasure maps and even a pop up book which you can print out and make pop up! It's really simple to use, a 6 year old could do it alone, and it looks great.
The interactions are nice. Playful, cute and well done.
If you have kids and you're permantly attached to the computer, you should combine those skills and make some stories this weekend. After you've been outside playing with the organic carrots etc etc.
Jeremy found 3 of the designers used in the project via Noisy Decent Graphics. ico who made remixit, comic creator, and Telling Tales. Studio Tonne who made Pop! and Willow Tyrer who made Tom Mouthy.
Further proof that reading this blog can seriously help your career.
I was always led to believe that the great innovation Sky had brought to the world was displaying the score in the top left hand corner of the telly during football matches. Which is good and very useful, especially if you turn the TV on in the middle of a game.
So why, dear listeners, do the BBC not do this for Wimbledon? It's especially annoying as a game of tennis has a lot more scoring than a game of football. The score changes every minute or so and therefore when I come in from the terrace with a glass of Pimms I like to know what the score is.
The BBC only seems to show the score when the camera is on this view below:
but not any other view. Maybe that's the only camera that has the little graphic on it.
Last night seemed to go really well. I enjoyed myself, although I was more nervous about hosting than I ever have been about speaking. All the speakers were fab and did a brilliant job of sticking to 8 minutes.
Rather than me blather on, let us let Twitter do the review for us.
And many more via the #8x8 twitter tag. Apparently they could have sold out several times over. I hope they do it again.
There's no way to be nice about this. Your jokes were awful, all of them.
I was sent a million, <insert font> walks into a pub, barman says "Why the long face" and a thousand "How many graphic designers does it take to change a lightbulb?" "Does it have to be a lightbulb?" very lame. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Still, winners have been chosen and notified by email.
I'm getting pretty excited about tonight, it will be very different hosting and not speaking. Still if Richard E Grant can do it, then I'm sure I can.
If you're coming tonight use the Twitter hashtag #8x8 during the event and I'll read out the best ones in the breaks. Should be a great night, the mightly Iain Tait is up first and look what he did at his last presentation...
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