January 2012
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Discovered: Antique Shop
K and I found this amazing antique shop over in Potrero Hill today. This, after brunch at Plow. Best Sunday ever. I took a bunch of pictures while I was wandering around the shop. Tons of amazing vintage typography. And random objects. Old doors. Stained glass. Wood tables and medical gadgets. An old jukebox. Inspiring miscellanea. Absolutely in love with this place.
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WatchTim Brown - More Perfect Typography
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Type on the Web
I’ve been working on a couple of web design projects, and as a die-hard print person it’s been really interesting. Typography on the web is completely different than in print. I feel like I’m learning design all over again. And I’m surprised at how much I love it. But more than that, you have to consider the user in a way that you don’t with print. With print, the...
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What I'm Reading
The summer I turned ten I smelled jasmine everywhere I went. At first I thought the smell was part of the normal world, because we were having a hot spell that July, and every night it rained and the flowers were in full bloom. So I didn’t pay much attention, except, after a while, I noticed I smelled jasmine in the bath, and my dreams were full of it, and when, one day, I cut my palm on a...
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What I'm Reading
I had strange experiences with my hands in Japan. I don’t know if it was because of the hotel I was staying at, the types of material the building had been constructed from—the fact, for example, that its doorknobs were made of metal and not wood—or whether the cause of all these little irritations had more to do with my wool cardigan (a New Year’s gift from my parents)...
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