Another game for type jerks?

Helevtica versus Arial (again). Thanks to Stephen Banham for the link.

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Funny Q&A for Slanted

The other day, Slanted send me some strange questions to answer…

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Last night in Beirut…

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Like any conferences, there is an end. But to be there was really enjoyable and really special, because of the Beirut (and Libanon) history, old and more recent. Libaneses clearly demonstrate a real energy to built a good future. I wish them, and I’m confident about that, their deep wishes will happen, and that their future will be peaceful.

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When Yasmine proposed this diner, she say we will go to a place where there is live music and we will have light food… Never trust a Libanese when (s)he say light food!

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More images from yesterday.

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Some images from a very nice diner, with yummi lebanese food at the home of Nathalie Fallaha.

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More various images from Beirut, too late for any comments…

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Beirut, Type & random images

Just arrived today in Beirut, Libanon for couple of day, to do a lecture at the typo.graphic.beirut conference, the first of the genre in that area. I have been told that 900 people registered (!), so they set up one main room + another one with big screen displaying what happening on the main one. I take very few images during a short sightseeing, and hope to post more interesting one in next few days.

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Identity correction

Honest people impersonate big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else.

Les honnêtes gens usurpent l’identité de puissants criminels pour les humilier publiquement.. Leurs cibles sont nos décideurs et nos grosses multinationales dont la seule raison d’être est d’amasser les profits.

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3138 morceaux

Je crois que beaucoup se trompent et mélangent beaucoup de choses, dès qu’il s’agit de p2p.

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New book on fonts?

Thanks to Jonathan Hoefler for his congratulation for this new book, its really appreciable!!!

Jonathan Hoefler comment about this news: I wanted to be the first to congratulate Jean-François on his new book.

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Matthew Carter on BBC 2

Following recent appearance of the master on UK TV, Bert Vanderveen posted a QT of it via the Typophile forums. (online until 10 April 2005).

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Missing articles from Graphis

Looking for some images from the newspaper Le Monde via Google, I found that old article from Graphis. I wasn’t aware that Graphis put some of their articles on the web!

Good news, specially because there is some gems on that page such the Q&A with Hermann Zapf.

What is your work philosophy (question to Hermann Zapf)? The interpretation of a message should be direct, without delays caused by fancy typefaces, amputated letter-forms, and other ideas ignoring the necessity of legibility. We no longer live in the time of Renaissance palaces and Baroque costumes but in the computer age. For modern industrial products, letterforms of the 16th century or 18th century are an anachronism. We should also stop copying 19th century typography and graphic design. Design has an immense social responsibility, a cultural message to people in regards to taste, education, and communication.

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Sad day

Some days are happy days, some are sad days, this one was a sad one. One person know why. To others, don’t try to understand, I can’t say more.

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PTF sous la neige

Il a neigé et il neige encore.

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Les espaces, parents pauvre

En réponse à un papier sur la ponctuation sur le blog des correcteurs du Monde.

Il y a truc qui m’a toujours dérangé au Monde et ailleurs en fait, depuis que mes caractères sont employés pour le texte courant.

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Not always

Not everybody like Parisine Plus as headline face selected by Pentagram for the recent redesign of How magazine.

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Others subject… on same website, a very good article on Roger Black. He is very good when he say:

The Boston Globe had a beautiful typeface called Madison that was originally their staple typeface, that [famed typographer] Matthew Carter had redrawn for them. Nobody else in the Unites States—or maybe in the world—used it. It was distinctive, very Boston for some reason, very apropos to the history of the Globe, to the whole thing. And then, for some reason, a new editor came in and cleared that out and put in Miller, which is a very fine typeface that Matthew Carter did, but sadly, it’s used by everyone in the world. It’s all over the place, particularly under the name Georgia.

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Gerard Unger exhibit?

It sound to be the website of an exhibition (?) in the city of the late Christopher Plantin (Belgium) of the work of my colleague and friend Gerard Unger. The design of the website is very nice, have a look by yourself.

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Toujours une surprise

...de trouver un site web entièrement composé dans un de mes caractères, ici du Parisine Plus Clair pour le site web de Marie-Claire Nicolier-Vouilloz, en Suisse romande. Ce que j’aime bien c’est l’aspect très blanc immaculé des pages et le clin d’œil aux typographes Suisse des 50’s en plus subtile pour les images (presque noir et blanc) employées pour la navigation.

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