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- chossy0
Went climbing with my father at the weekend pretty good couldn't really see much as it was a bit cloudy at times but nice day :) plus there were some wallaby's freezing their asses off in a wee park on the way beck he he wee chubby cheeky chaps.
- juhls0
I, too, would like neverblink to code everything.
- digdre0
i'm waiting too
- magnificent_ruin0
where can you buy a Benton Sans package, all the weights of the regular non-compressed or condensed versions, including italics and small caps?
- Font Bureau?NotByHand
- http://www.fontburea…juhls
- Not sure if non-compressed is included there.juhls
- their site is a fucking messmagnificent_ruin
- not broken down into packages, no pictures of small cap character set, etcmagnificent_ruin
- or am I missing somethingmagnificent_ruin
- http://www.fontshop.…moamoa
- italic? small caps?moamoa
- thin version is extra
http://www.fontshop.…
moamoa - didn't I give the whole shebang to you?neue75_bold
- no italics or small capsmagnificent_ruin
- moamoa0
someone knows the story behind Benton Sans? I mean Tobias Frere-Jones designed it.. but why isn´t it available at hoefler & frere-jones?
- gfymoamoa
- started out as Benton Gothic, for Martha Stewart Mag... I guess he was at FB then?magnificent_ruin
- I see he left FB 1999
http://www.fontburea…
moamoa
- magnificent_ruin0
somehow I've gotten 4 billion weights accidntally added to my cart and have to manually remove them one at a time... and how do you see the frigging character map?
- at Fontshop? click on character map/Zeichentabellemoamoa
- no, at FB; fontshop doesn't even seem to have italics or small capsmagnificent_ruin
- fuck itmagnificent_ruin
- digdre0
don't forget to email it
- digdre0
ok, got 2 printers in mind for internship, but still hope to convince my docent to get one at a graphic design agency or something
- btw. an internship at a priting company is great.moamoa
- I did an intern for 6 weeks in a printing comp.... 6 weeks are enoughmoamoa
- Only thing i hope, that its after Rock Werchter, before Pukkelpop, and that I get paid for it
digdre - do the print place seriously - get an introduction to design as WORK. it'll do good for youkelpie
- plenty of time for graphic design firms not letting you do anything important laterkelpie
- wear a maskmagnificent_ruin
- (because of the fumes)magnificent_ruin
- _salisae_0
business cards in sizes other than 3.5 x 2
discuss
- 2 thumbs upmagnificent_ruin
- although many find them irritatingmagnificent_ruin
- 2 thumbs downNotByHand
- true story: I haven't given out a business card in yearsmagnificent_ruin
- NBH finds them irritatingmagnificent_ruin
- this is more a monologue than a discussionmagnificent_ruin
- 3.5 x 2 ? cm?moamoa
- inchesmagnificent_ruin
- I know haha but hoch much is that in cm...moamoa
- hoch much?magnificent_ruin
- 8.89 cm
5.08 cm_salisae_ - doesn´t fit in my businesscard holder ;(moamoa
- I've stopped doing cards in unusual sizes unless client requests it because they usually come back come back and bitch about itmagnificent_ruin
- and bitch about itmagnificent_ruin
- but I would do it for myself, if I ever gave them outmagnificent_ruin
- starting to feel like jaline heremagnificent_ruin
- agreed!!!!moamoa
- okay – thanks rand. that helps a lot. haha_salisae_
- agreed was not for the jaline thingmoamoa
- that i feel like Jaline?magnificent_ruin
- discussmagnificent_ruin
- jaline will one day sort all of her thoughts out clearly_salisae_
- and then where will we be?_salisae_
- I like her just the way she ismagnificent_ruin
- she is a perfect entity_salisae_
- a poster child for likability_salisae_
- magnificent_ruin0
at one point Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary decided to stay permanently high on lsd, but it gradually began to lose its effectiveness. It got to the point where they were pouring bottles of it down their throats without getting high
- discussmagnificent_ruin
- hoch much?moamoa
- i've been there. its not pretty.emukid
- I'm there nowmagnificent_ruin
- digdre0
Sal, do round businesscards.
- NOOOOOmoamoa
- 1st Rule: no round businesscardsmoamoa
- 2st Rule: no round letter papermoamoa
- trapezium thendigdre
- moamoa is soooo conservativejuhls
- sure i am catholic!moamoa
- round business cards / round letter / round brochure / round website / round shirts = will never end.moamoa
- circular or rounded corners?_salisae_
- I think he meant rounded cormers...moamoa
- round card with square corners would be greatmagnificent_ruin
- hahha_salisae_
- loljuhls
- moamoa0
- discussmoamoa
- napstermagnificent_ruin
- dumpstermagnificent_ruin
- lobstermagnificent_ruin
- i love itemukid
- thinking about to engrave the round cornermoamoa
- smoamoa
- engrave corners? does not computemagnificent_ruin
- Looks like you are staring down at a cheeseburgerlocustsloth
- this piece will be full of magicmoamoa
- I thought you meant putting the corners higher and lower up, thereby eliminating the circle altogether.juhls
- I like cheesburgermoamoa
- hahhaah!_salisae_
- juhls. Great idea. give me some minutes I just doscovered illustratormoamoa
- Looks like a maf adapter for an air intake pipe.chossy
- digdre0
leave the vector work to me, moa.
- digdre0
jhuls, use jaline again.
- digdre0
bitch, use jaline again.
- magnificent_ruin0
discuss
- Monica Belucci?moamoa
- design of spreadmagnificent_ruin
- I likemagnificent_ruin
- huh baron&baronmoamoa
- could be betterdigdre
- what does that even mean?magnificent_ruin
- that better is possibledigdre
- never mind--fuck itmagnificent_ruin
- you are a pure genious.. you found the jpg directory from baron. now I dot need to make screenshots from their flash sitemoamoa
- nice solid pathway for your eye to escape and a good range of monochromas_salisae_
- http://www.baron-bar…moamoa
- that paper is so 'bling'
see that reflections in it? jesus.digdre - I like the right side, I guess. The left side has a gap that doesn't work well to me, at least when put side by side w/ the right.juhls
- even the finest designers don't achieve universal appreciationmagnificent_ruin
- to me, the right side isn't the right side without the left side, if you catch my driftmagnificent_ruin
- thats true. only i do.digdre
- I LOVE THE SADNESS_salisae_
- happy valentine sal.digdre
- where is it? in the white area?magnificent_ruin
- the ineffable sadness of whitespace?magnificent_ruin
- in the eyes and in the colors. the white space is the only thing keeping me from jumping_salisae_
- happy valentines! digdre_salisae_
- I think it looks awkward, but it's also geometrically correct (using a grid), so what do I know.juhls
- the layout's 'offness' feels very appropriate for the subject matter_salisae_
- even without the subject mattermagnificent_ruin
- moamoa0
digdre. you ever heard about notes?
those little grey boxes on the right...
- digdre0
no
- hahahah +1moamoa
- so what other book you have for me,
word on the street is you bought 2digdre - surprise surprise!!!!!!!moamoa
- word!moamoa
- MS Word handbook?digdre
- do you have my address anyways?digdre
- no Epson PRINTER manualmoamoa
- I already have thatdigdre
- nope... send me an mail. I ordered the books at a local book store... *waitingmoamoa
- sentdigdre
- locustsloth0
- hehehemagnificent_ruin
- HAHAHHAHAHHAmoamoa
- can I engrave the ketchup?moamoa
- the design world will never catch up with us now!_salisae_
- no in fact i don't think anyone could mustard the inspiration we have stumbled upon here_salisae_
- i mean, considering the way designers are bread these days_salisae_
- < my favourite two posts evarkelpie