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(photo: Farming in Nevada, credit: Michael Eckblad)



August
14
Here’s shot of Jon troubleshooting his solenoid wiring at the recent Art Hack Weekend at Eyebeam. Stay tuned for some more details about the project we whipped together over the weekend! (photo: The Creators Project)

Here’s shot of Jon troubleshooting his solenoid wiring at the recent Art Hack Weekend at Eyebeam. Stay tuned for some more details about the project we whipped together over the weekend!

(photo: The Creators Project)


This post has 4 notes and tag: # art # code # nyc # arthack .



August
15
The Devil’s in the … Ligatures A few of us are getting close to wrapping up a paid gig — one that’s turned out to be rather rewarding and fun to work on (well, for me at least). We were lucky enough to convince the client that Heofler & Frere-Jones’ Archer typeface would be a good fit for the organization, and I’ve been enjoying having an excuse to look at it. The one catch is that H/FJ hasn’t rolled out any web font capability for Archer (although hopefully something is in the works), so I had to do some old-fashioned PHP image generation to get dynamic text to display their typeface on the site. I got everything up-and-running but something was missing … ligatures! Turns out I had to do them by hand — kind of a digital throwback to typesetting I suppose. It was worth it! —Andy

The Devil’s in the … Ligatures

A few of us are getting close to wrapping up a paid gig — one that’s turned out to be rather rewarding and fun to work on (well, for me at least). We were lucky enough to convince the client that Heofler & Frere-Jones’ Archer typeface would be a good fit for the organization, and I’ve been enjoying having an excuse to look at it.

The one catch is that H/FJ hasn’t rolled out any web font capability for Archer (although hopefully something is in the works), so I had to do some old-fashioned PHP image generation to get dynamic text to display their typeface on the site. I got everything up-and-running but something was missing … ligatures!

Turns out I had to do them by hand — kind of a digital throwback to typesetting I suppose. It was worth it!

—Andy


This post has 0 notes and tag: # typography # code .